function ADMINremovespaces(HOMEANNOTATIONS, HOMEIMAGES, annotationfolder) % % Removes non-alphabetic characters, spaces, %2025 and %20 from filenames and replaces them with '_' % This function is to be used with caution as it might affect other users. % % Those characteres can be introduced sometimes when reading images from % the web. % % ADMINremovespaces(HOMEANNOTATIONS, HOMEIMAGES, annotationfolder) % Rename images % create list of folders if nargin == 3 Folder = {annotationfolder}; else folders = genpath(HOMEIMAGES); h = [findstr(folders, pathsep)]; h = [0 h]; Nfolders = length(h)-1; for i = 1:Nfolders tmp = folders(h(i)+1:h(i+1)-1); tmp = strrep(tmp, HOMEIMAGES, ''); tmp = tmp(2:end); Folder{i} = tmp; end end for n = 1:length(Folder) annotationfolder = Folder{n}; if ~isempty(HOMEIMAGES) files = dir(fullfile(HOMEIMAGES, annotationfolder, '*.jpg')); Nfiles = length(files); for i = 1:Nfiles filename = fullfile(HOMEIMAGES, annotationfolder, files(i).name); % rename image file src = filename; dest = removecaracters(files(i).name); cmd = sprintf('rename "%s" %s', src, dest); disp(cmd) system(cmd) end end % Rename annotations and replace %2025 and %20 and spaces by '_' from annotation.filename if ~isempty(HOMEANNOTATIONS) files = dir(fullfile(HOMEANNOTATIONS, annotationfolder, '*.xml')); Nfiles = length(files); for i = 1:Nfiles filename = fullfile(HOMEANNOTATIONS, annotationfolder, files(i).name); % rename image file indexed inside the file [fid, message] = fopen(filename,'r'); if fid == -1; error(message); end xml = fread(fid, 'uint8=>char'); fclose(fid); xml = xml'; ii = strfind(xml, ''); jj = strfind(xml, ''); if ~isempty(i) tmp = removecaracters(xml(ii:jj)); xml = [xml(1:ii-1) tmp xml(jj+1:end)]; % save annotation fid = fopen(filename,'w'); fprintf(fid, xml'); fclose(fid); % rename annotation file src = filename; dest = removecaracters(files(i).name); cmd = sprintf('rename "%s" %s', src, dest); disp(cmd) system(cmd) else disp(filename) end end end end function out = removecaracters(in) out = lower(in); out = strrep(out, ' ', '_'); out = strrep(out, '%2520', '_'); out = strrep(out, '%20', '_'); out = regexprep(out, '\W', '_');