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Entropy of grayscale image

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Syntax

e = entropy(I)

Description

e = entropy(I) returns the entropy of grayscale image I. Entropy is a statistical measure of randomness that can be used to characterize the texture of the input image.

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Examples

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Open Live Script

Read image into the workspace.

I = imread('circuit.tif');

Calculate the entropy.

J = entropy(I)
J = 
6.9439

Input Arguments

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Grayscale image, specified as a numeric array or logical array of any dimension. The entropy function expects images of data type double and single to have values in the range [0, 1]. If I has values outside the range [0, 1], then you can rescale values to the expected range by using the rescale function.

Data Types: double | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | logical

Output Arguments

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Entropy of image I, returned as a numeric scalar.

Data Types: double

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Entropy

Entropy is defined as -sum(p.*log2(p)), where p contains the normalized histogram counts returned from imhist.

By default, entropy uses two bins for logical arrays and 256 bins for uint8, uint16, or double arrays. entropy converts any data type other than logical to uint8 for the histogram count calculation so that the pixel values are discrete and directly correspond to a bin value.

References

[1] Gonzalez, R. C., R. E. Woods, and S. L. Eddins. Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB. New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 2003, Chapter 11.

Extended Capabilities

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

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