How to create a database of images and thus, how to compare a query image to those that are there in the database?

I want to create a database of images and need to create the histogram of all these images. So, when a new image is entered, I can make it's histogram and compare with all the images in the database using some algorithm.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

load() and save()

Answer 2

[Shaun VanWeelden]

And a cell array can't hurt either. If you are looking to see how close an image matches up, try taking a look at normxcorr2, it is a pretty cool function.

Answer 3

[Rakesh Singh]

use these lines of code

it might help you

list = dir('*.tif');  % reading all the images one by one .
for i = 1:length(list)
img{i} = imread(list(i).name);