Image Filter Comparison App

Interactively compare image filtering methods side by side using App Designer.

About This Example

This example shows how to build an app to interactively filter images using App Designer. Using the Image Filter Comparison App, users can filter the same image using two different image filtering methods and compare the results side by side. The app can compare the results of imfilter, medfilt2, imgaussfilt, bwareafilt, ordfilt2, stdfilt, imbilatfilt, imboxfilt, and entropyfilt. The example also demonstrates how to build a reusable custom UI component that inherits from ComponentContainer to improve code reusability and maintainability.

Setup

Products

Requires MATLAB® R2026b or newer.

Also requires the following MathWorks products:

• Image Processing Toolbox™

Getting Started

Open ImageFilterComparisonApp.m in App Designer or see the guided walkthrough on the documentation page.

Example Files

File	Description
ImageFilterComparisonApp.m	The App Designer app for comparing image filters
ImageFilterComparisonApp.xml	App component layout data
ImageFilter.mlapp	Custom UI component for image filtering

License

The license is available in the license.txt file in this GitHub repository.

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