JAVA how to get rgb values from an image

[atie]

hello,

i'm kinda new in this programming thingy so i hope you guys can help me.

i wanted to code a program that can identify whether a banana is ripe or not. basically, i have two image of banana; one yellow in color and another one is green. so i'm thinking about using AI technique (backpropagation maybe) to identify the banana ripeness.

i search for some article on how to do it and most of them start with loading the image and extract the rgb value. this is what i've done. its not much because i dunno what to do next. can anybody help?

import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

public class banana
{
public static void main(String [] args)throws Exception
{
//get image
File imageFile= new File("yellowbanana.jpg");
BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(imageFile);

//if file not exist
if(!(imageFile.exists())){
System.out.println("File NOT exists");
System.exit(0);}

int w = image.getWidth();
int h = image.getHeight();

System.out.println("w=" + w + ", h=" + h);

next i should get the pixel of the image. is it correct?

[Mark44]

hello,

i'm kinda new in this programming thingy so i hope you guys can help me.

i wanted to code a program that can identify whether a banana is ripe or not. basically, i have two image of banana; one yellow in color and another one is green. so i'm thinking about using AI technique (backpropagation maybe) to identify the banana ripeness.

i search for some article on how to do it and most of them start with loading the image and extract the rgb value. this is what i've done. its not much because i dunno what to do next. can anybody help?

import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

public class banana
{
public static void main(String [] args)throws Exception
{
//get image
File imageFile= new File("yellowbanana.jpg");
BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(imageFile);

//if file not exist
if(!(imageFile.exists())){
System.out.println("File NOT exists");
System.exit(0);}

int w = image.getWidth();
int h = image.getHeight();

System.out.println("w=" + w + ", h=" + h);

next i should get the pixel of the image. is it correct?

Unless the image is very small, it probably won't consist of a pixel, but will instead consist of w * h pixels. You also need to know how the image is encoded - its color model, which indicates how many bits are used for red, green, and blue, and if there are alpha bits.

[atie]

thnk you for ur reply mark..

the banana image i have is 400pixels height and 400pixels width..

how may i know how the image is encoded? i don't understand that part.

oh, btw, i change my coding. i convert the banana image into binary. is changing the image to binary retain the color values?

[Mark44]

Since you are using the BufferedImage class, you should be looking at the documentation for it (see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/image/BufferedImage.html).

You can find out how the data is encoded by using the getType method on BufferedImage. This method returns one of the constants that describes the color encoding scheme.

[atie]

hye.. i managed to convert image into grayscale and into binary... however the binary string i got is too long (like 42 pagesssss!). how can i make it shorter? do i need to resize the picture's pixel or something?