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TransformedDatastore

Datastore to transform underlying datastore

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Description

Use a TransformedDatastore object to transform, or process, data read from an underlying datastore.

Creation

You can create a TransformedDatastore object using the transform function. For example, dsnew = transform(ds1_data,ds2_data,...dsN_data,@fcn) creates a datastore that transforms one or more datastores ds1_data,ds2_data,...dsN_data using the transformation function fcn.

Properties

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Underlying datastores, returned as a cell array of datastore objects.

Set of transformation functions, specified as a cell array of function handles.

Data Types: cell

Include information from read function, specified as a logical vector. For each value of IncludeInfo that is true, the transformed datastore uses the alternative signature of the corresponding transform function in transformSet.

The read function returns information about the extracted data in an info struct. For more information, see the read function page.

Data Types: logical

This property is read-only.

Formats supported for writing, returned as a row vector of strings. This property specifies the possible output formats when using writeall to write output files from the datastore.

Object Functions

combineCombine data from multiple datastores
hasdataDetermine if data is available to read
previewPreview subset of data in datastore
readRead data in datastore
readallRead all data in datastore
writeallWrite datastore to files
resetReset datastore to initial state
transformTransform datastore
numpartitionsNumber of datastore partitions
partitionPartition a datastore
shuffleShuffle all data in datastore
isPartitionableDetermine whether datastore is partitionable
isSubsettableDetermine whether datastore is subsettable
isShuffleableDetermine whether datastore is shuffleable

Examples

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Open Live Script

Create a datastore for a collection of images and apply the same transformation to all the images in the datastore. For instance, resize all the images in a collection to a specified target size.

Create an ImageDatastore with two images.

imds = imageDatastore({'street1.jpg','peppers.png'})
imds = 
  ImageDatastore with properties:

                       Files: {
                              ' .../build/runnable/matlab/toolbox/matlab/demos/street1.jpg';
                              ' .../build/runnable/matlab/toolbox/matlab/matlab_images/png/peppers.png'
                              }
                     Folders: {
                              ' .../Bdoc24b.2725827/build/runnable/matlab/toolbox/matlab/demos';
                              ' .../build/runnable/matlab/toolbox/matlab/matlab_images/png'
                              }
    AlternateFileSystemRoots: {}
                    ReadSize: 1
                      Labels: {}
      SupportedOutputFormats: ["png"    "jpg"    "jpeg"    "tif"    "tiff"]
         DefaultOutputFormat: "png"
                     ReadFcn: @readDatastoreImage

Read all the images. Notice that the datastore contains images of different sizes.

img1 = read(imds); % reads the first image
img2 = read(imds); % reads the next image
whos img1 img2
  Name        Size                Bytes  Class    Attributes

  img1      480x640x3            921600  uint8              
  img2      384x512x3            589824  uint8

Transform all the images in the datastore to a specified target size. 

targetSize = [224,224];
imdsReSz = transform(imds,@(x) imresize(x,targetSize));

Read the images and display their sizes.

imgReSz1 = read(imdsReSz);
imgReSz2 = read(imdsReSz);
whos imgReSz1 imgReSz2
  Name            Size                Bytes  Class    Attributes

  imgReSz1      224x224x3            150528  uint8              
  imgReSz2      224x224x3            150528  uint8

Display the resized images. 

tiledlayout(1,2);
nexttile
imshow(imgReSz1); axis on; title('Resized Street1.jpg')
nexttile
imshow(imgReSz2); axis on; title('Resized peppers.png')

Figure contains 2 axes objects. Axes object 1 with title Resized Street1.jpg contains an object of type image. Axes object 2 with title Resized peppers.png contains an object of type image.

Open Live Script

Create multiple datastore objects and apply the same transformation to all the datastores. For instance, combine multiple images into one rectangular tiled image.

Create an ImageDatastore with one image.

imds1 = imageDatastore({'ngc6543a.jpg'})
imds1 = 
  ImageDatastore with properties:

                       Files: {
                              ' .../build/runnable/matlab/toolbox/matlab/demos/ngc6543a.jpg'
                              }
                     Folders: {
                              ' .../Bdoc24b.2725827/build/runnable/matlab/toolbox/matlab/demos'
                              }
    AlternateFileSystemRoots: {}
                    ReadSize: 1
                      Labels: {}
      SupportedOutputFormats: ["png"    "jpg"    "jpeg"    "tif"    "tiff"]
         DefaultOutputFormat: "png"
                     ReadFcn: @readDatastoreImage

Read the image into the workspace to create an image file from each color channel in the original image. 

rgbImage = imread('ngc6543a.jpg');
imwrite(rgbImage(:,:,1),'nebula_red.jpg');
imwrite(rgbImage(:,:,2),'nebula_green.jpg'); 
imwrite(rgbImage(:,:,3),'nebula_blue.jpg');

Create an ImageDatastore object for each single-channel image.

imdsR = imageDatastore({'nebula_red.jpg'});
imdsG = imageDatastore({'nebula_green.jpg'});
imdsB = imageDatastore({'nebula_blue.jpg'});

Read the image stored in each datastore and display their sizes.

imOriginal = read(imds1);
img_red = read(imdsR);
img_green = read(imdsG);
img_blue = read(imdsB);
whos img1 img_red img_green img_blue
  Name             Size              Bytes  Class    Attributes

  img_blue       650x600            390000  uint8              
  img_green      650x600            390000  uint8              
  img_red        650x600            390000  uint8

Transform all of the datastores by combining all the images into one rectangular tiled image. Convert the color image in imds1 to grayscale so that its dimensions match those of the other images.

tds1 = transform(imds1,imdsR,imdsG,imdsB, @(x1,x2,x3,x4) [rgb2gray(x1),x2;x3,x4]);
tile = read(tds1);

Display the tiled image.

imshow(tile)

Figure contains an axes object. The hidden axes object contains an object of type image.

Version History

Introduced in R2019a

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