Organizing images in datastore and accessing them with parameters

Hello everyone. I had the following question and was wondering if someone could help me solve it. Let me explain below.

In a certain folder I have several images and all of them have a name of this type: IMG_0X_0Y.bmp

In which X can take any integer value between 0 and 360 and Y can take any value between 0 and 100.

What I would like to do is to be able to save all those images in a structure of type:

imds = imageDatastore(location) 

And that saying the value of the variable Y and of the variable X I can load the information of that concrete image.

Answer 1

[per isakson]

The statement

imds = imageDatastore(location) 

creates an instance of the class, ImageDatastore. My first idea was to subclass, ImageDatastore. and add a new reading method. However, that isn't possible, since the class is sealed, which mean that we cannot inherit from it.

An alternative is to make a wrapper that has an instance of the class, ImageDatastore. as a property value.

%%  create sample files
for yy = 10:10:100
    for xx = 10:10:360
        copyfile( 'Img_000X_000Y.bmp', sprintf( 'Img_%03dX_%03dY.bmp', xx, yy ) )
    end
end
%%  create a list of file specifications
sad = dir( 'd:\m\cssm\AF\Img*.bmp' );
ffs = fullfile( {sad.folder}, {sad.name} );
%%  and test the wrapper
wrp = Wrapper( ffs );
[img,ffs] = read_xy( wrp, 250, 70 );

outpts "the concrete image" and its file name

file =
    'd:\m\cssm\AF\Img_250X_070Y.bmp'    

where

classdef    Wrapper < handle
    properties
        image_datastore
        loc
    end
    methods     
        function    this = Wrapper( filespecs )
            this.image_datastore = imageDatastore( filespecs );
            cac = regexp( filespecs, 'd:\\m\\cssm\\AF\\Img_(\d{3})X_(\d{3})Y.bmp', 'tokens','once' );
            cac = vertcat( cac{:} );
            cac = cellfun( @(sx,sy) [str2double(sx),str2double(sy)], cac(:,1), cac(:,2), 'uni',false );
            this.loc = struct( 'xy',cac, 'ffs',reshape( filespecs, [],1 ) ); 
        end
        function    [img,ffs] = read_xy( this, x, y )
            [~,pos] = ismember( [x,y], vertcat( this.loc.xy ), 'rows' );
%           img = imread( this.loc(pos).ffs );
            img = readimage( this.image_datastore, pos );
            ffs = this.loc(pos).ffs;
        end
    end
end

If its enough to fullfill a bare minimum the requirements of your question¨ the class imageDatastore is not needed. Comment out all rows that refer to the property image_datastore and use imread(). Replace ismember() by ismembertol() so that the x a y values don't need to exact.