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Doubts in watershed transform command
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Jul 27, 2011 12:11 AM
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One of the image processing method I'm using and studying now is watershed segmentation, and I find the examples available in Matlab is very useful. I tried it on my own image and it works just fine with some modification.
However, there's few commands that I don't understand in the example, and I hope someone can help me with it:
2.Compute the distance transform of the complement of the binary image.
D = bwdist(~bw);
figure, imshow(D,[],'InitialMagnification','fit')
title('Distance transform of ~bw')
3.Complement the distance transform, and force pixels that don't belong to the objects to be at -Inf.
D = -D;
D(~bw) = -Inf;
Q1. What does '~ ' do in (~bw)? Why does it affect the gradient of image in computing the distance transform?
Q2. In 3, why does the D needed to be complemented?
Q3. What is the purpose of making the 'unrelated' pixels -Inf?
Thanks.
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