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bug #51144: image package: mean2([]) gives incompatible error

Submitter:  Hartmut <hardy>
Submitted:  Tue 30 May 2017 06:05:04 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Package Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Matlab Compatibility
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * other Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Thu 01 Jun 2017 11:55:26 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I've tested the call to mean2 in Matlab with logicals, 3d arrays, imaginary numbers, sparse matrices. They all give a useful result. So, yes, removing all input checks was the right thing to do here for compatibility concerns.

Hartmut <hardy>
Tue 30 May 2017 10:30:18 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I have pushed http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/image/rev/12ef5a4b4fd8 which removes pretty much all input check. I added a bunch more checks for other special cases such as sparse matrices and imaginary numbers.

Carnë Draug <carandraug>
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Tue 30 May 2017 06:05:04 PM UTC, original submission:  

This happens with Octave 4.2.1 and image-2.6.1:

>> mean2([])
error: mean2: argument must be a 2D image
error: called from
    mean2 at line 31 column 5

>> mean([])
warning: division by zero
warning: called from
    mean at line 116 column 7
ans = NaN


The corresponding output of Matlab (R20124b) is:

>> mean2([])
ans =
   NaN

>> mean([])
ans =
   NaN


So the result of mean2 is NOT Matlab compatible for an empty matrix as input. Octave mean2 throws an error, Matlab doesn't.

And this incompatibility of mean2 cannot be blaimed onto te underlying (Octave core function) mean, because its output for an empty matrix as input IS Matlab compatible.

Hartmut <hardy>

 

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