How to change the background colour of this image to 0 and foreground colour to 1 to make it binary.

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I tried this code but not working properly.
% Extract the individual red, green, and blue color channels.
redChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 1);
greenChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 2);
blueChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 3);
% Now make the mask
mask = ~(redChannel ~= 0 & greenChannel == 0 & blueChannel == 0);
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Guillaume
Guillaume on 24 Jun 2019
Your image looks like a labelised image to which false colours have been applied. Rather than trying to revert the false colouring, it would be better to work from the original labelised image. Don't you still have it?

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Answers (2)

Sulaymon Eshkabilov
Sulaymon Eshkabilov on 23 Jun 2019
Hi,
Here is a short code that reads and separates the three layers of colors:
AA = imread('Matrix.png');
R=AA(:,:,1);
G=AA(:,:,2);
B=AA(:,:,3);
imshow(AA)
RGB(:,:,1)=R;
RGB(:,:,2)=G;
RGB(:,:,3)=B;
imshow(RGB)
% Now you can change the values of any layer...
Good luck.

Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 24 Jun 2019
You'd need
mask = ~(redChannel ~= 0 & greenChannel == 0 & blueChannel == 255);
% Mask the image using bsxfun() function to multiply the mask by each channel individually.
maskedRgbImage = bsxfun(@times, rgbImage, cast(mask, 'like', rgbImage));

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