Questions tagged [image-processing]
In general, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame.
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Sampling and highest frequency rate
I have been given a task saying,sample an image of checkerboard of size 256*256 with different frequencies (nx,ny), an then find the highest sampling rate which we can reconstruct the image, and show ...
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How to read all the metadata of a .dng raw image file to know the arrangement of the bayer pattern?
I am trying to write my own demosaicing function for .dng raw image files, and need to extract the value for the bayer pattern arrangement from the .dng file's metadata.
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How to Remove the Patch Artifacts of Neural Network Denoising Process?
I have written a python script which uses the Noise2Noise: Learning Image Restoration without Clean Data implementation of the Auto Encoder which is useful to remove noise from images. In the original ...
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How do I interpret the Wavelet scattering transform frequency plane and tree diagrams?
I've been reading through this paper on "Invariant Scattering Convolution Networks" and am having a difficult time interpreting the tree diagrams and frequency plane diagrams shown respectively below. ...
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Understanding performance of Lucas Kanade Iterative Image Registration Technique
I am reading the paper:
Lucas, B. D., & Kanade, T. (1981). An iterative image registration technique with an application to stereo vision.
I am having some trouble understanding section 4.3 ...
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Automatically crop out certain region around red objects
I have the image seen below and I would like be able to automatically crop out everything around each red section - not enough to overlap but enough that you can see how connected to the green parts ...
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Circular Convolution Matrix of $ {H}^{H} {H} $
We all know that Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) corresponds to circular (not linear) convolution. That is to say, if $x(n),h(n)$ and $y(n)$ is the original signal, the filter and output signal in ...
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What are these grids of dots on my LCD TV?
I know all about the boxy motion blur type artifacts one can get from the compressed video. But what are these even grids of dots that appear sometimes on my screen? It is most often in dark shots, ...
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Disabled parking sign detection
I would like to ask you, if you could recommend some algorithm for detection of handicapped or disabled parking sign painted on the road or on the traffic sign.
I am thinking about image morphology (...
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How to separate spliced(photoshopped) part from the rest of the spliced image?
I'm working on a project to detect spliced images and want 128x128 patches at the boundaries of the forged regions. I have the authentic background image and the spliced(photoshopped) one.
If I ...
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Hisotgram equalisation error, help with my code
Iam working on implenting a histogram equalisation of an image without using inbuilt functions specifcally imhist and histeq, I have, for the most part understood what do during a histogram ...
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Elimination of image blurring using noise model restoration techniques
How can the blurring be eliminated from image using the noise model restoration process techniques?
To my knowledge the answer must be filter.If yes,then which filter is used?
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How is the Gaussian kernel related to the Euclidean distance of the neighbourhoods in the non-local means algorithm?
I am reading the paper A non-local algorithm for image denoising that describes the original non-local means algorithm. They define (p. 3 of the pdf) the distance between two square fixed ...
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How do I denoise a microscope image?
I'm working in a computer vision project, where the goal is to detect some specific parasites, but now that I have the images, I noticed that they have a watermark that specifies the microscope ...
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Why can convolution only be applied to compute the output of a linear filter?
We apparently cannot compute the output of a bilateral filter (BF) using convolution (with the image) because the BF is a non-linear filter. In general, why can convolution only be applied to compute ...
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Extracting image metadata programatically
I hope this is the right location to post this, as my question isn't really stack-overflow material but involves images.
I have hundreds of SEM-Images like this:
and need to track changes in certain ...
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What is energy in image processing?
There are several web articles on the topic, but, after having read them, I still don't know what "energy" is, in the context of computer vision (CV) and image processing (IP). It is related to ...
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Fresnel transform over image
You can recommend the literature or tell you what the Fresnel Transform does to the image.
I realized that this describes the passage of a light wave through an optical element, but I need to ...
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Why isn't bilateral filtering shift-invariant?
I have a source (that I can't share) that states that bilateral filtering isn't shift-invariant (that is, it depends on the input signal), hence we cannot use convolution and the Fourier convolution ...
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How to implement separable bilateral filter?
I’m trying to optimize my naively implemented O(n^2) bilateral filter for 2D images. I googled and found a lot of theoretical explanations about the separate one. However, it seems there are things ...
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Microscopy crystal particle object length detection
Hi I try to detect the particle length size from this image
and I'd like to get the length size of the particle Like this below. and get the histogram of the size of the particle using centroid and ...
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Use FOV or camera deprojection to find position of pixel in world coordinates relative to my camera?
A teammate and I were discussing how best to get a 3D coordinate point (X, Y, Z) in world units from an RGB-D depth image. I'm using an intel real sense D435.
From how I have researched it using the ...
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Sum of Squared Intensity Difference for block matching with ORB features, c++
I am trying to implement feature matching algorithm between image reference and image current.
The pipeline is as follows:
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Deriving vector paths from pen strokes
I want to calculate vector paths that approximate pen strokes from handwritten documents. My tool needs to run in batch mode, unlike hand tracing or Illustrator's "Image Trace" feature.
The potrace ...
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What is the difference between domain and range filtering?
In the context of image processing, I have heard the expressions "domain filtering" and "range filtering". What do these terms refer to? What is the difference between them?
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What is a periodic signal in image processing?
In the context of image processing (and computer vision), the concept of convolution comes up a lot. Convolution is quite related to the concept of Fourier transform and DFT. In the context of image ...
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How Much Zero Padding Do We Need to Perform Filtering in the Fourier Domain?
Consider an $M\times N$ image $f$ and an $G \times K$ filter $h$. Given that convolution in the spatial domain corresponds to multiplication in the Fourier domain, then we can perform a convolution of ...
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Understanding of Histogram-of-Oriented-Gradients
I am learning about HOG and I understand it from here. A well-explained page with an example. I am not understanding this concept that how it works
A 16×16 block has 4 histograms which can be ...
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Is there any way to do 3D (Voxel Data) feature detection?
In the 2D image processing, there are ways to find and match features of the image (like corner of the edges). However, I could not find the equivalent of that in the 3D-voxel data (Here voxel means a ...
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How to calculate Walsh hadamard transform for image patches of odd sizes?
I was reading this paper on optical flow, which as apart of the algorithm makes use Walsh-Hadamard transform on image patches of size 2r+1. So far, where ever I have looked, I could only find that ...
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What is meant by peak value of gradient magnitude?
I am trying to write MATLAB code for the research paper entitled Echocardiography Image Enhancement Using Adaptive Fractional Order
Derivatives.
The two thresholds are given by a=(peak+min(Gmag))/2 ...
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What is the difference between a range filter and a low-pass filter?
A low-pass filter attenuates the high frequencies, preserving only smooth variations in the provided image. The result of an image which is low-pass filtered is an image with blurred edges (hence ...
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What is the relation between smoothing and blurring?
Is there any difference between smoothing and blurring? Are these two operations the same or do these terms refer to different operations?
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Why exactly is the Guassian filter a low-pass filter?
In image processing, a Guassian filter is used to blur an image. A low-pass filter is a filter that attenuates the high frequencies, preserving only smooth variations in the provided image. Is a ...
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Why is correlation involved? - Axis Rescaling for a 2D axes - brightfield illumination microscopy of blood cells
for 1D axis rescaling, you use a FOV calculation
len_pixel=total_magnification * len_specimen_in_pixel
len_specimen_in_pixel=len_pixel/total_magnification
and then to get the axes rescaled, you do ...
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Intuitively, why is the comb function the sampling function?
The comb function can be used to sample a continuous signal. The comb function is defined as follows
$$
C_T(t) = \sum_{k=-\infty}^{\infty} \delta(t - kT)
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where $\delta$ is the Dirac function, ...
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What is intuitively a diffusion in the context of images?
I have heard the word "diffusion" in the context of image processing and computer vision. However, images are discrete and I associate the word "diffusion" with a continuous process. Intuitively, what ...
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PATMAX / Flexible ROI for matlab
I just googled for some hours if there is any toolbox / library for MATLAB with which you can realize something similar like PATMAX does for cognex cameras.
I want to add flexible ROI for moving ...
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Extracting signal from data using Otsu thresholding in MATLAB?
I am very new to signal processing. I am trying to extract a signal from my data using otsu threholding but it's not fully accurate. In this case I know that there is going to be a single signal in ...
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What is the relation between time, frequency, spatial and spectral domains?
What is the relation between time, frequency, spatial and spectral domains?
I think that time and spatial domains are the "original" domains (e.g. if the signal is a greyscale image, then the domain ...
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What do we mean by spectrum?
Consider the context of image processing and computer vision, and, in particular, discrete Fourier transform.
For example, in the sentence
In the Discrete Time Fourier Transform the forward ...
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Crop all written letters from single image
Above image has handwritten hindi / deavanagari letters all on a single
image.
Task is to Prepare a dataset from the given assignment.jpg image using image
processing tools
Idon't have clarity ...
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What is the difference between an impulse response and a kernel?
It seems to me they are two terms used to refer to the same concept, but, according to the Wikipedia page on Guassian filter
a Gaussian filter is a filter whose impulse response is a Gaussian ...
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What does this notation $g(x) = S\{\delta(t) \}(x)$ mean?
What does this notation mean $g(x) = S\{\delta(t) \}(x)$ mean, where $S$ is a "system", $\delta(t)$ is the impulse function and $g(x)$ the output function of the system? I am really not familiar with ...
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Image Pixel Wise Transformations - Recommended Order
I'm new in image processing. Right now I know how to correct white balance and how to correct image contrast. But if I need to make this two tranformations. In which order should I do this?
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Why Does 2D FFT of Gaussian Looks More Sharper than Gaussian Itself?
I am trying to understand why 2D FFT is done on a Gaussian process in a particular code. From my understanding from these posts:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/...
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What Does 'Zero Order Hold' and 'First Order Hold' Mean?
While studying the Image Magnification in spatial domain, I have come across this definition of Image Magnification by Replication:
Replication is a zero order hold where each pixel along a scan ...
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Encoding YUV Color Space with Positive Numbers
I got 2 hdr rgb textures/signals. When fetched one gets bicubicly interpolated and the other bilinearly. So I was thinking I can store as YUV and store Y from each texture in the bicubic one and the ...
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Why does the representation of the filter matter? How explain it to people outside signal processing theory?
Recently I was able to solve a problem on concerning filtering by changing the representation from zero-pole-gain to 2nd-order-section when dealing with higher sampling rate data.
But: What do ...
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Difference Between Contrast Enhancement and Texture Enhancement in Images
I have a very basic question. I understand that contrast enhancement is exaggerating the difference between the intensity of the adjacent structures and texture in an image is the repeating geometric ...
