Operator Reference
topographic_sketch (Operator)
topographic_sketch
— Compute the topographic primal sketch of an image.
Signature
Description
topographic_sketch
computes the topographic primal
sketch of the input image Image
. This is done by
approximating the image locally by a bicubic polynomial (“facet
model”). It serves to calculate the first and second partial
derivatives of the image, and thus to classify the image into 11
classes. These classes are coded in the output image
Sketch
as numbers from 1 to 11. The classes are as
follows:
Peak | 1 |
Pit | 2 |
Ridge | 3 |
Ravine | 4 |
Saddle | 5 |
Flat | 6 |
Hillside Slope | 7 |
Hillside Convex | 8 |
Hillside Concave | 9 |
Hillside Saddle | 10 |
Hillside Inflection | 11 |
Attention
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.
Parameters
Image
(input_object) (multichannel-)image(-array) →
object (byte)
Image for which the topographic primal sketch is to be computed.
Sketch
(output_object) (multichannel-)image(-array) →
object (byte)
Label image containing the 11 classes.
Example (HDevelop)
* To extract the Ridges from a Image read_image(Image,'sinus') topographic_sketch(Image,Sketch) threshold(Sketch,Ridges,3,3)
Complexity
Let n be the number of pixels in the image. Then O(n) operations are performed.
Result
topographic_sketch
returns 2 (
H_MSG_TRUE)
if all parameters are
correct. If the input is empty the behavior can be set via
set_system('no_object_result',<Result>)
.
If necessary, an exception is raised.
Possible Successors
References
R. Haralick, L. Shapiro: “Computer and Robot Vision, Volume I”; Reading, Massachusetts, Addison-Wesley; 1992; Kapitel 8.13.
Module
Foundation