gray_imread - Read any image as grayscale
This is a simple utility routine to read any image as grayscale. If the image is truecolor or pseudo-color, it is converted using im2gray
initial_dir = PWD; chdir (SIPDIR + 'images'); Img = gray_imread('ararauna.png'); xbasc() imshow(Img,[]); chdir(initial_dir);
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