How do I get a colormap from JPEG file in MATLAB?

To get a colormap from a JPEG file in MATLAB, you can follow these steps:

  1. Read the JPEG file into MATLAB using the imread function. This will create a matrix containing the RGB values of each pixel in the image.

img = imread('your_image.jpg');

Convert the RGB image to indexed color using the rgb2ind function. This function will create an indexed image and a colormap. The indexed image will contain indices into the colormap for each pixel.

 

[ind_img, cmap] = rgb2ind(img);

Display the indexed image using the imagesc function. This will show you the color mapping that MATLAB has assigned to the image.

 

imagesc(ind_img);
colormap(cmap);

The colormap can also be saved to a file using the imwrite function. For example:

 

imwrite(ind_img, cmap, 'your_colormap.png', 'png');

This will save the colormap as a PNG file, which you can open in any image viewer.

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