Operator Reference
symmetry (Operator)
symmetry
— Symmetry of gray values along a row.
Signature
symmetry(Image : ImageSymmetry : MaskSize, Direction, Exponent : )
Description
symmetry
calculates the symmetry along a line.
For each pixel the gray values of both sides of the line are
compared: The absolute value of the differences of gray values with
same distance to the pixel is computed. Each of these differences
is weighted by the exponent (after division by 255) and then
summed up.
Pixels with a high symmetry have large gray values.
Attention
Currently only horizontal search lines are implemented.
Note that the parameter Direction
exists for future extensions and can
currently only have the value 0.0.
Note that filter operators may return unexpected results if an image with a reduced domain is used as input. Please refer to the chapter Filters.
Execution Information
- Multithreading type: reentrant (runs in parallel with non-exclusive operators).
- Multithreading scope: global (may be called from any thread).
- Automatically parallelized on tuple level.
- Automatically parallelized on channel level.
- Automatically parallelized on domain level.
Parameters
Image
(input_object) (multichannel-)image(-array) →
object (byte)
Input image.
ImageSymmetry
(output_object) (multichannel-)image(-array) →
object (byte)
Symmetry image.
MaskSize
(input_control) number →
(integer)
Extension of search area.
Default: 40
Suggested values: 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100, 120, 140, 180
Value range:
3
≤
MaskSize
≤
1000
Minimum increment: 1
Recommended increment: 2
Direction
(input_control) number →
(real)
Angle of test direction.
Default: 0.0
Suggested values: 0.0
Value range:
0.0
≤
Direction
≤
0.0
Exponent
(input_control) number →
(real)
Exponent for weighting.
Default: 0.5
Suggested values: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0
Minimum increment: 0.01
Recommended increment: 0.1
Restriction:
0 < Exponent && Exponent <= 100
Example (HDevelop)
read_image(Image,'monkey') symmetry(Image,ImageSymmetry,70,0.0,0.5) threshold(ImageSymmetry,SymmPoints,170,255)
Result
If the parameter values are correct the operator symmetry
returns the value 2 (
H_MSG_TRUE)
The behavior in case of empty input (no input images available) is
set via the operator
set_system(::'no_object_result',<Result>:)
.
If necessary an exception is raised.
Possible Successors
Module
Foundation