Matlab imfilter function implemenation

Question

I am trying to write a function that implements imfilter function. but getting this error.

??? Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals

at this point

s= size(img);

Find below the code snippet

s = size(img);
Ix = zeros(s);
Iy = zeros(s);
for i = 1:s
    for j = 1:s
        temp = img(i-1:i+1,j-1:j+1) .* Gx;
        Ix(i,j) = sum(temp(:));
    end
end

Please is there anything Im doing wrong?

EDITED CODE

s = size(img);
Ix = zeros(s);
Iy = zeros(s);
for i = 2:s(1)-1
    for j = 2:s(2)-1
        temp = img(i-1:i+1,j-1:j+1) .* Gx;
        Ix(i,j) = sum(temp(:));
    end
end

For the generic solution to this problem, see this question. — Dennis Jaheruddin

nkjt nkjt · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-14T13:34:06

If it genuinely happens at the point of calling s= size(img);, then you probably have a variable size in your workspace which is shadowing the size function.

In addition, there are a couple of possible issues with your loop. First, you can't use zero as in index in MATLAB. Hence, when you have i = 1, j = 1 at the start of your loop, you would expect the temp line to return the Subscript indices error.

the output of size, presuming img is a greyscale image, is going to be two numbers. When you do i = 1:s, it will ignore the second one. This is fine so long as your image is square but will not do what you expect if it isn't.

Finally, have a look at conv2 for cases like this rather than creating a loop.

Matlab imfilter function implemenation

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