how to correct the error in finding neighbor pixels in an 3x3 window? how many input arguments for an max() function have?

 I=[2 3 10 4 6; 1 4 7 5 3; 5 2 8 4 3;8 2 1 7 3;1 9 8 3 4;];
 D = padarray(I,[1 1],0,'both');
 [x y]=size(D);
 m=1;
 n=1;
 for i=2:x-1   
    for j=2:y-1 
         I1(m,n)=max(max(D(i-1,j-1:j+1),D(i,j-1),D(i,j+1),D(i+1,j-1:j+1)));
         n=n+1;   
    end
     m=m+1;
     n=1;
end
I1=I1(1:x-2,1:y-2);

error: Error using max Too many input arguments.

Error in sampl1 (line 9) I1(m,n)=max(max(D(i-1,j-1:j+1),D(i,j-1),D(i,j+1),D(i+1,j-1:j+1)));

Answer 1

[ES]

max ideally takes one argument, a vector or matrix and returns the maximum element(s) (elements in case the passed input is a matrix).

max also takes two arguments.

But foryour case, you can form a matrix x=[D(i-1,j-1:j+1),D(i,j-1),D(i,j+1),D(i+1,j-1:j+1)] and do a max on x like

max(x)

[sheno39]

Thank You Sir, i got it..

[Walter Roberson]

max can also take three arguments. When it is given 2 arguments, it always proceeds element-by-element. When it is given three arguments with the second argument empty, it uses the third as the dimension number to take the maximum over.

[Ashish Uthama]

Sheno39, if this answered your question, please mark it as accepted.