Converting 8bit image to colour

[Rob7]

Hello I have just carrid out edge detection and the image is eight bit binary. I'm new to labview and am having problems converting image to colour to carry out pattern matching. Can someone please help????? I'm really stuck

[Ray.R]

What is the original image that you are trying to detect?  How was it acquired? Was it originally in color?

Sorry to ask so many questions, there are a few paths you can take...  I just want to make sure you're headed in the right direction.

RayR 

[chilly_charly]

Just a guess : if your 8 bit binary image is the result of a threshold operation, it contains only grey levels 0 and 1. Edge detection uses 256 grey levels. A trick would be to multiply your image by a constant (=128), but it is probably better to apply the edge detection directly on the grey level original image.