How to get correlation coefficients in matlab

问题

In every paper i read about encryption they like to show the correlation coefficients of their encrypted image by showing 3 values: Horizontal correlation coefficient . vertical correlation coefficient. diagonal correlation coefficient . and they show these 3 values for encrypted image and also for plain image(lena). My question is how to do this in matlab ? and if there is no matlab function for it , what are the equation they are using to get those 3 values ?

Table 2 Correlation coefficients of two adjacent pixels in two images example:

           Plain-image        Ciphered image
Horizontal 0.92401               0.01589
Vertical   0.95612                 0.06538
Diagonal   0.92659                 0.03231

Any lead would be helpful , thanks

回答1:

If I understood it correctly, you would like to perform a correlation analyis for pairs of pixels within a certain given image.

In principle I would go for the cov function: in your specific case, cov will retrieve a [2*2] symmetric matrix. The diagonal elements will represent your horizontal and vertical correlation coefficients, whereas the lower (upper) triangular elements will stay for the diagonal correlation coefficient.

I hope this will help you.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16095429/how-to-get-correlation-coefficients-in-matlab