If your file associations are set up correctly the application that s meant to open your mat file will open it.
How to open mat file without matlab.
In the open with dialog box click the program whith which you want the file to open or click browse to locate the program that you want.
Coming from the academia the annotations for the dataset was in the mat format.
Reading them in is definitely the easy part.
A load 1 mat imshow a this is the shortest possible way and 1 is the name of the image.
2 spreadsheet link can be used to import a mat file but would require matlab in the background.
This isn t the case for any of the above cases but it might be for yours.
When saving a handle object matlab saves a copy of the object not a copy of the handle.
Scipy is a really popular python library used for scientific computing and quite naturally they have a method which lets you read in mat files.
It s possible you may need to download or purchase the correct application.
You can get the file used in this post here.
Mat files contain binary data so you will not be able to open them easily with a word processor.
If all you need to do is look at the files you could obtain octave which is a free but somewhat slower implementation of matlab.
Use the matfile function to access matlab variables directly from mat files on disk without loading the full variables into memory.
When you create a new file using matfile the function creates a version 7 3 mat file that also lets you save variables larger than 2 gb.
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It s possible that a different program created it and stored the information in a plain text file.
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There are some options for opening them outside of matlab.
Use a free text editor to open the mat file if none of the above programs are working for you.
Select the always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box.
For example if your mat file contains function handle myfunc the syntax m myfunc attempts to index into the function handle and does not invoke the function.
Launch a mat file or any other file on your pc by double clicking it.