How to truncate the image values ??

How to truncate the image values so they stay in the [0 1] range

[Asad Mirza]

This depends on what data type your image comes as. If it's a uint8 type then it's values will be from [0 255] but if you convert them to double with im2double then the values will range from [0 1].

Also, do you mean truncate as in set all values outside that range to 0?

Need some clarification.

[ghada sandoub]

thanks for your comment. I'm following an algorithm for image enhancement and after applying the algorithm, the output is an image of type double and it needs simple modification to be more visual. the last step in the algorithm is to truncate the image to [0 1], which is of paramount

importance to improve the brightness and contrast of the image. but i don't know how to truncate the image. can you help me on that?? thanks

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Truncate, or scale? There is a difference.

% Truncate:
yourImage(yourImage >1) = 1;
% Scale (min,max) to (0,1):
yourImage = mat2gray(yourImage);
% or scale max to 1, leaving min linearly scaled (not necessarily sent to 0).
yourImage = yourImage / max(yourImage(:))

Answer 2

[Jos (10584)]

X = randn(5,5) 
a = 0, b = 1
% truncate values of X between a and b
Xt = min(max(X,a),b)
% scale values of X between a and b
Xsc = (X - min(X(:)) - a) .* b / range(X(:))