I am developing a template matching program in MATLAB. The code runs well, and finds the closest result. My first question, in this code, I am using the function corr2()
. I would like to try a version using the formula (I tried to upload a picture of but I need 10 reputations).
I understand the formula itself, but I am not sure what variables should I use to use it. For example, what is exactly the m
and n
mean in my images where can I get them? In another words, what does the formula take as inputs?
Second question is, when I run the code I have now, it takes long, is there any thing I can change to speed it up?
Original = imread('Red.jpg'); % Read original image
Template = imread('temp.png'); % Read template image
OriDu = im2double(Original); % convert original image
TempDu = im2double(Template); % convert template
OriH = size(Original, 1); %height of the Original image
OriW = size(Original, 2); %width of the Original image
OriD = size(Original, 3); %colour depth
TempH = size(Template, 1); %height of the Template image
TempW = size(Template, 2); %width of the Template image
TempD = size(Template, 3); %colour depth
TempDu = reshape(TempDu, TempH*TempW, 3);
corr = 0; % to check the best correlation found
%% two for loops to go through the original image.
for i = 1:OriH-TempH
for j = 1:OriW-TempW
% take a segment of the original image( same size as the template size)
segment = OriDu(i: (i - 1) + TempH, j: (j - 1) + TempW, :);
segment = reshape(segment, TempH*TempW, 3);
output = corr2(TempDu, segment);
if output > corr
corr = output;
x = i;
y = j;
end
end
end
figure;
subplot(1,2,1), imshow(Template), title('Template');
subplot(1,2,2), imshow(OriDu(x:x+TempH, y:y+TempW, :)),title('Segment of the similar part');