Questions on the image processing capabilities implemented in Mathematica.
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How to find Image Size of a control object?
I want to find the ImageSize or at least dimensions of any control object irrespective of it being an image or an any other control such as ...
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HSB -> HSL Converter
Starting from an image I would like to apply a custom filter to an image.
I have thought and implemented this filter in HSL space and it goes like this :
Boost the saturation of the pixels that ...
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How to create new “person curve”?
Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collection¹ of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha["person curve"] into a Mathematica ...
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Why does ImageData need four times more memory?
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We are dealing with very large TIFF image files that are imported, processed and exported using Mathematica 9. Many of our algorithms only work with an array representation of the images, ...
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Automating the “Get Indices” right click function
Is there a way to do this? What I am trying to do is allow a user to take a lineout averaged over the rows of a user defined ROI (Region of Interest) of an image. I have the bit of code that allows ...
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xkcdConvert routines perform slower in Mathematica 9
I am experiencing some rather large performance decreases in Mathematica version 9.0 using the xkcd-styled plotting routines.
I had used the xkcdConvert code ...
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Cleaning mildew from old documents using Mathematica (Image processing)
While visiting family over the holiday period, I managed to have some good mother-daughter bonding over how far back I’ve managed to trace the family tree (Mom is in her 80s and doesn’t do computers). ...
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Radon function result's repeatability
I want to get a Hough transform of some edged image.
When I compare the same transformation on the same image I got different results.
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Image Processing: Finding Orientation and Position of Symmetry Axes
Background
I'm currently toying with Principles of Design by Charlotte Jirousek in order to learn some basics of image processing. As main principals she suggests Balance, Proportion, Rhythm, ...
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How do I make an image “nearly” black and white?
Using the following code, I downloaded an image from the web and adjusted the image to obtain the "negation" of the image:
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Why does DominantColors keep shuffling the order of the results?
This graphic is produced by running DominantColors (new in Mathematica 9) with different values, using the Lena image as the source:
Each row is a list of the ...
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FindFaces: how to improve the results of the face recognition feature
In Mathematica 9, the FindFaces command offers an easy way to detect faces. In some experiments, I've been getting reasonable results, but I'd like to know if there ...
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Deformed style when exporting eps files
I want to export a plot into an eps file. Below I present a sample plot code in order to demonstrate the two issues that appear.
(1). LabelStyle: When I use ...
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How can I superimpose points or disks on an image at specified coordinates?
I have a TIFF image of 640 x 640 pixels, over which I would like to plot a list of points or disks of small radius.
I have been testing different alternatives and I found ImageCompose command.
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Push-pin Art – Convert image to R-Y-B-W-Blk color space
After seeing an example of what is called “Push-pin Art”, I assumed that Mathematica would be able to handle the kind of image processing required to convert an image to this format. I am not well ...
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How to transform a 3D image by an affine transformation matrix
I have a question concerning Image Processing:
I have a stack of images, which I can compose to a 3D image using Image3D.
Additionally I have a 4x4 affine transformation matrix.
I would like to ...
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Counting radial ridges on an image
After happily using the v9 image assistant to crop elliptically an image, and then the drawing tools to put a white disk in the middle, I turned this image:
into the following one:
that can be ...
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Count Elements in Image
I have the following image: img1
I'm trying to count al these colored cells and draw a circle around them.
I really don't now how I can use SelectComponents for ...
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What is ImageDistance measuring?
What quantity is ImageDistance measuring, and what do the numbers mean?
I found the ImageDistance command in Mathematica 9, but ...
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How to extract a specific element from EXIF photographic metadata?
It's now possible to import photographs into Mathematica and import the EXIF data at the same time:
i = Import["ExampleData/coneflower.jpg", "ImageWithExif"]
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HOG descriptor for image processing
I did not find in Mathematica a function for Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) descriptors.
Is there any similar function? Do you have an implementation you are willing to share?
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The correct way to linearize colorspace before resizing, blurring etc
There was an interesting discussion on MathGroups dealing with the fact that image-processing functions in Mathematica (and many other software, including Adobe Photoshop) work with RGB, Grayscale ...
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How to retrieve the parameters calculated and used by ImageAdjust?
When ImageAdjust is called with an image, i.e. with one parameter, it returns an automatically adjusted Image. I would like to ...
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Color mixing or blend
Color mixing seems not only one type.
Here is RGB_color_model
I wrote this one:
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Finding the Centroid of the grid
Im trying to automate the processing of my shooting targets to measure my performance in the range.
I was able to process the shots, but I still have to select the center of the target by the use of ...
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Accessing the graph Thinning produces without losing all the edges' lengths/slopes
This is a follow up to the OCR question I had earlier.
What I want to do is to use Thinning to create "skeletons" of images of characters and then compare their shapes, utilizing such properties ...
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Detecting grid lines in a raster image
Motivation: Last October 7 there was a presidential election in Venezuela.
Although the opposition saw an unprecedented increase in its votes, the
government votes increased even more resulting in the ...
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How to make 3d solid volume from set of images [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to show solid bodies using volumetric rendering?
I have a set of images, and I want to construct a z-stack, then reconstruct it to a 3d volume.
My previous ...
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Detect cigarettes/cigars in a scene [closed]
In many countries, it is mandatory to show a statutory warning whenever smoking is depicted in TV episodes and films- yeah that's asinine. How to detect cigarettes and cigars (in many the scenes, the ...
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Overlapping accurately Images and Graphics (without loss of resolution)
Context
In a previous post, I learned how to produce these kind of plots, which are of interest in astrophysics and geophysics.
I am now interested in combining them.
Attempt
For this purpose, ...
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Measuring fractal dimension of natural objects from digital images
This is a useful topic. A college physics lab, medical diagnostics, urban growth, etc. - there is a lot of applications. On this site by Paul Bourke about Google Earth fractals we can get a high ...
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Implementing OCR without using TextRecognize
I am new to Mathematica and trying to figure out whether it is a good
tool for algorithmic exploration. So I had the idea of implementing a
simple OCR with Mathematica, just using standard ...
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Proving (self) similarity with Mathematica - Reccurrence Plots, Similarity Plots etc
I posted this question in math.se but given the sheer tumultous number of questions that keep appearing on math.se and also given that I am trying to accomplish this in Mathematica, I thought I'd post ...
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Calculate mean and standard deviation from ImageHistogram
I am doing my PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology; I had someone helping me analyse images (.jpg pictures) in Mathematica, but it turns out this person made some really bad decisions, and well, now I have ...
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Cluster a signal into areas of equal intensity
Introduction
I have a greyscale photograph that I want to partition into areas of equal intensity.
This means, that the integral over each partition should be (roughly) equal.
There is no unique ...
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Help find a bright object on Mars!
In today's news, scientists found a bright object on one of Curiosity's photos (it's near the bottom of the picture below). It's a bit tricky to find - I actually spent quite some time staring at the ...
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How to find circular objects in an image?
How could I use morphological processing to find circular objects in an image? More specifically, I need to detect road signs.
I need to get the "80 speed limit" sign from this image:
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Vectorizing an image like “Trace Bitmap” in Inkscape
Lately, we had a nice question about artistic image vectorization which got very nice answers.
As Szabolcs pointed out himself
Since "true" vectorization performed by various specialized software ...
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Download xkcd Click and Drag comic
Inspired by the recent question about xkcd styled plots I started looking at xkcd again and I came across a comic titled Click and Drag. And if you do that, you start exploring a larger drawing. A ...
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Enlarge an image and increase its resolution
An ongoing purely recreational project. I got my introduction to image processing with this Rotating perspective... question and had a lot of fun with it.
Now I want to take it to the next step.
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False Color SEM image with Mathematica
I have a question regarding colouring and binary image filtering, but unfortunately, the system doesn't permit the inclusion of images for first-timers. If anyone would like to see the images ...
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How to measure segment length and branch angle
I am trying to measure segment length and branch angle or bifurcation angle between each pair of segments.
My image after thinning looks like this:
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Monospaced fonts are not monospaced
I'm using Linux-x86-64 as operating system. Can someone explain this behaviour and maybe give a hint how to resolve it? Here are two lines of exact the same number of letters of a monospaced font:
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Poor results with ImageLines function
I'm trying to get my mind wrapped around Mathematica's image feature recognition functions. I'm intrigued by the ImageLines function for a couple future ideas I ...
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Problems with images caused by which stylesheet is used
Update
This looks now like it was a bug in Mathematica version 8, because
everything works as expected - at least for this minimal example - in
version 9. (As an aside, I couldn't seem to find ...
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Identifying critical points of 2/3D image/cubes
Upshot
I am interested in identifying critical points of a 3D field/cubes (maxima, minima, tube-like and wall-like saddle points) and 2D field/image (maxima, minima, saddle points). I.e. the ...
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Inserting button in image
Can I insert a button in an image at specified location? I have tried but it shows Button is not a graphic function.
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How can I create a glass distortion effect in an image?
I'd like to overlay a glass jar onto an image with realistic light bending. Can anyone think of a way to automate this effect (perhaps this can be done with the raytracing package rayica)?
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Programmatic approach to HDR photography with Mathematica image processing functions
The High dynamic range imaging (HDR or HDRI) direction in photography and image processing became very popular recently. Besides obvious photo art applications (see examples), there are many great ...
