Average of pixel difference from center pixel

I want to replace the value of center pixel by the average value of the pixel difference of its 3x3 neighboring pixels. How to do it? Please guide me. Thanks

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Walter's right - your definition of "difference" is not precise enough. Please clarify. If you mean the color difference, delta E, then you can run the attached demo that computes the local color difference, in a moving window, between a pixel and its neighbors in a window around it.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

conv2(YourImage, [1 1 1;1 -8 1; 1 1 1]/8, 'same')

This might not be valid on the outside border, but you did not define the behavior for the outside border.

[Nataliya]

Thanks for the response. I am working with rgb images and conv2 function does not work for 3-D images. Please suggest what can I do in this case. Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

You are going to need to write out the formula. Take the case of a 3 x 3 image that is RGB, so 3 x 3 x 3. Write out the formula you would use to calculate the average for the pixel at the center, location (2,2,:).

I need you to write out the formula because there are a lot of different possible meanings to "pixel difference" and "average" for RGB. Is the difference to be taken in Hue? In Saturation? In grayscale intensity? In a* coordinates in La*b* colorspace? In Z coordinates in XYZ colorspace? Should the RGB values be taken as representing 3 dimensional coordinates and the "pixel difference" be interpreted as the cos of the vector angle for the rays between (0,0,0) and the two different RGB triples?