Operator Reference
union_adjacent_contours_xld (Operator)
union_adjacent_contours_xld — Compute the union of contours whose end points are close together.
Signature
union_adjacent_contours_xld(Contours : UnionContours : MaxDistAbs, MaxDistRel, Mode : )
Description
The operator union_adjacent_contours_xld unifies all
contours of the input XLD contour array (Contours) whose
end points are close together.
The unified contour consists of the concatenation of the contour
points of the input contours.
If necessary, the order of these input contour points is flipped, so
that the end points of the contours that have to be connected are
direct neighbors in the resulting point list.
This operation is repeated until there are no more unconnected
adjacent contours left.
As a result all the contours that are newly created by unification,
as well as the input contours that could not be connected with any
other contour, are returned in UnionContours.
Parameters
The parameters MaxDistAbs and MaxDistRel are used to
define the conditions for the proximity of two contours. In principle, the
measures for these parameters depend on the order in which each pair of
contours is evaluated, i.e., which contour is used as reference contour
that is to be joined with the second contour. To avoid this dependency, the
respective measures are evaluated in both directions and the order of
contours is chosen that results in the smaller value for these measures.
Note that in the illustrations below, the contour on the left is always
used as the reference contour. The parameter Mode controls the
handling of the attributes of the input contours.
MaxDistAbs-
The parameter
MaxDistAbsdefines the maximum accepted absolute distance between the two contours. The distance is measured along the regression line of the reference contour. Thus, it is the length of the projection of the gap between the two contours onto the regression line of the reference contour. MaxDistRel-
The parameter
MaxDistReldefines the maximum accepted relative distance between the two contours. The relative distance is calculated by dividing the distance a (see the description of the parameterMaxDistAbs) by the length b of the reference contour.The order for connecting adjacent contours depends mainly on the distance of the neighbored end points: the contours with the smallest distance are connected first. If there are two pairs of contours with the same distance, first the contour pair that does not contain the shortest contour is connected.
Mode-
Finally, by the parameter
Modeit is possible to control how to handle the attributes that may come with input contours. For example, the operatoredges_sub_pixattaches to every contour point attributes like the local orientation, the edge response, and the edge direction. Choosing the default value 'attr_keep', all attributes are copied to the output, and - if a contour has to be flipped for connecting it with another one - they are adapted to the new orientation. With a great number of input contours, however, it may be sensible to ignore the attributes for performance reasons, if they are not needed for further calculations. For this the value 'attr_forget' has to be passed.
Execution Information
- Multithreading type: reentrant (runs in parallel with non-exclusive operators).
- Multithreading scope: global (may be called from any thread).
- Processed without parallelization.
Parameters
Contours (input_object) xld_cont-array → object
Input XLD contours.
UnionContours (output_object) xld_cont-array → object
Output XLD contours.
MaxDistAbs (input_control) real → (real)
Maximum distance of the contours' end points.
Default: 10.0
Value range:
0.0
≤
MaxDistAbs
MaxDistRel (input_control) real → (real)
Maximum distance of the contours' end points in relation to the length of the longer contour.
Default: 1.0
Value range:
0.0
≤
MaxDistRel
Mode (input_control) string → (string)
Mode describing the treatment of the contours' attributes.
Default: 'attr_keep'
List of values: 'attr_forget', 'attr_keep'
Possible Predecessors
split_contours_xld,
select_contours_xld
Alternatives
union_collinear_contours_xld,
union_collinear_contours_ext_xld,
union_cocircular_contours_xld,
union_straight_contours_xld,
union_cotangential_contours_xld
See also
edges_sub_pix,
threshold_sub_pix,
gen_polygons_xld,
split_contours_xld,
select_contours_xld,
get_contour_xld,
get_contour_attrib_xld
Module
Foundation