Reading, Writing, and Querying Graphics Image Files

April 29th, 2010 No Comments   Posted in Documents

Working with Image Formats

In its native form, a graphics file format image is not stored as a MATLAB matrix, or even necessarily as a matrix. Most graphics files begin with a header containing format-specific information tags, and continue with bitmap data that can be read as a continuous stream. For this reason, you cannot use the standard MATLAB I/O commands load and save to read and write a graphics file format image. Read More