illuminateilluminateIlluminateIlluminateilluminate (Operator)

Name

illuminateilluminateIlluminateIlluminateilluminate — Illuminate image.

Signature

Description

The operator illuminateilluminateIlluminateIlluminateIlluminateilluminate enhances contrast. Very dark parts of the image are “illuminated” more strongly, very light ones are “darkened”. If orig is the original gray value and mean is the corresponding gray value of the low pass filtered image detected via the operators mean_imagemean_imageMeanImageMeanImageMeanImagemean_image and filter size MaskHeightMaskHeightMaskHeightMaskHeightmaskHeightmask_height x MaskWidthMaskWidthMaskWidthMaskWidthmaskWidthmask_width. For byte-images val equals 127, for int2-images and uint2-images val equals the median value. The resulting gray value is new: new = round ( (val - mean) * Factor + orig ). The low pass should have rather large dimensions (30 x 30 to 200 x 200). Reasonable parameter combinations might be: Height Width Factor --------------------- 40 40 0.55 100 100 0.7 150 150 0.8 i.e. the larger the low pass mask is chosen, the larger FactorFactorFactorFactorfactorfactor should be as well.

The following “spotlight effect” should be noted: If, for example, a dark object is in front of a light wall the object as well as the wall, which is already light in the immediate proximity of the object contours, are lightened by the operator illuminateilluminateIlluminateIlluminateIlluminateilluminate. This corresponds roughly to the effect that is produced when the object is illuminated by a strong spotlight. The same applies to light objects in front of a darker background. In this case, however, the fictitious “spotlight” darkens objects.

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.
• Automatically parallelized on internal data level.

Parameters

read_image(Image,'fabrik')
dev_display (Image)
illuminate(Image,Better,40,40,0.55)
dev_display (Better)

read_image(&Image,"fabrik");
disp_image(Image,WindowHandle);
illuminate(Image,&Better,40,40,0.55);
disp_image(Better,WindowHandle); 

read_image(Image,'fabrik')
dev_display (Image)
illuminate(Image,Better,40,40,0.55)
dev_display (Better)

read_image(Image,'fabrik')
dev_display (Image)
illuminate(Image,Better,40,40,0.55)
dev_display (Better)

read_image(Image,'fabrik')
dev_display (Image)
illuminate(Image,Better,40,40,0.55)
dev_display (Better)

Result

If the parameter values are correct the operator illuminateilluminateIlluminateIlluminateIlluminateilluminate returns the value TRUE The behavior in case of empty input (no input images available) is set via the operator set_system(::'no_object_result',<Result>:)set_system("no_object_result",<Result>)SetSystem("no_object_result",<Result>)SetSystem("no_object_result",<Result>)SetSystem("no_object_result",<Result>)set_system("no_object_result",<Result>). If necessary an exception is raised.

Possible Successors

disp_imagedisp_imageDispImageDispImageDispImagedisp_image

Alternatives

scale_image_maxscale_image_maxScaleImageMaxScaleImageMaxScaleImageMaxscale_image_max, equ_histo_imageequ_histo_imageEquHistoImageEquHistoImageEquHistoImageequ_histo_image, mean_imagemean_imageMeanImageMeanImageMeanImagemean_image, sub_imagesub_imageSubImageSubImageSubImagesub_image

See also

emphasizeemphasizeEmphasizeEmphasizeEmphasizeemphasize, gray_histogray_histoGrayHistoGrayHistoGrayHistogray_histo

Module

Foundation