Get the middle point of a matrix

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Xin
Xin on 23 Jun 2020
Commented: Xin on 26 Jun 2020
Hi everyone. I have an interesting situation. So the idea is to calculate the value of middle points of a 1D, 2D or 3D matrix.
For example, A is a 100*100 matrix. What I want to obtain is an 99*99 matrix which simply represent the averaged value of the 3D matrix A.
I could easily do it by following:
B = (A(2:end,2:end)+A(2:end,1:end-1)+A(1:end-1,2:end)+A(1:end-1,1:end-1))/4;
However, this is rather slow as I need to reference A by 4 times. The situation is worse for 3D or large A. I am just wondering if there is a faster way to do this task by avoiding the multiple referencing or if there is any build-in matlab function that could do it in a faster way?
Thank you very much!

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Tommy
Tommy on 23 Jun 2020
Edited: Tommy on 23 Jun 2020
Possibly MATLAB's convolution functions will be faster:
% 1D case:
B = conv(A, ones(2,1), 'valid') / 2;
% 2D case:
B = conv2(A, ones(2), 'valid') / 4;
% 3D case:
B = convn(A, ones(2,2,2), 'valid') / 8;
Generalized for dimension n (I think) by something like this:
B = convn(A, ones([2*ones(1,n),1]), 'valid') / 2^n;
(edit)
Seems to be faster for this case at least:
A = rand(100,100,100);
f1 = @() (A(2:end,2:end,2:end)+A(2:end,2:end,1:end-1)+A(2:end,1:end-1,2:end)+A(2:end,1:end-1,1:end-1)+...
A(1:end-1,2:end,2:end)+A(1:end-1,2:end,1:end-1)+A(1:end-1,1:end-1,2:end)+A(1:end-1,1:end-1,1:end-1))/8;
f2 = @() convn(A, ones(2,2,2), 'valid') / 8;
>> timeit(f1)
ans =
0.0430
>> timeit(f2)
ans =
0.0086
>> all(abs(f1() - f2()) < 0.000000001, 'all')
ans =
logical
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Xin
Xin on 26 Jun 2020
Thank you Tommy! This indeed is faster than before. I am actually thinking if there is any other faster way to do this task. If you have further idea I would really appreciate it.
Xin

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