Pseudo-Color

Goal: To implement an algorithm that converts a range of gray-scale values of an image to color.

I implemented the algorithm in matlab. It works by checking the gray-scale values against the specified range in each color plane and replacing the values that fall within that range by red, green, or blue. You can specify the gray-scale range and the RGB value to replace it. In some cases you may need to go some fraction outside the desired range because I used floating point values to do the arithmetic, and there may be floating point round off problems during the range comparisons. For the test image below, I chose the range -1 to 20 (inclusive) to convert the river to a yellow color. It seems to have worked pretty well. There are only a few small areas outside the river that were converted to yellow. At the same time, the procedure appears to have done a nice job of highlighting the river.

Fig. 2a and 2b below. Choosing a range of values for this image was easy because the river is located

completely at the darker end of the gray-scale spectrum.

Get the code here.