WlzNMSuppress.c File Reference

A non-maximal supression filter, which constructs a new domain object using a Canny-like non-maximal suppression algorithm. The domain is the non-maximally suppressed domain and the values are the encoded gradient direction. More...

Functions
WlzObject *	WlzNMSuppress (WlzObject *grdM, WlzObject *grdZ, WlzObject *grdY, WlzObject *grdX, WlzPixelV minThrV, WlzErrorNum *dstErr)
	Computes the maximal domain and gradient direction of given Woolz domain object. More...

Detailed Description

A non-maximal supression filter, which constructs a new domain object using a Canny-like non-maximal suppression algorithm. The domain is the non-maximally suppressed domain and the values are the encoded gradient direction.

Author

Bill Hill

Date

May 1999

Version

Id

57b0a149d96184d5fadbb7a7665d1b7f5b9f5443

Address: MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK.

Copyright (C), [2012], The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, Old College, Edinburgh, UK.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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Todo:

WlzNMSuppress3D() has yet to be implemented.

Function Documentation

WlzNMSuppress()

WlzObject* WlzNMSuppress	(	WlzObject *	grdM,
		WlzObject *	grdZ,
		WlzObject *	grdY,
		WlzObject *	grdX,
		WlzPixelV	minThrV,
		WlzErrorNum *	dstErr
	)

Computes the maximal domain and gradient direction of given Woolz domain object.

Returns

Currently only implemented for 2D domain objects. The domain is the maximaly suppressed domain and the values are the encoded gradient direction. The direction is encoding is from the +ve x-axis counter clockwise in eight steps with a mask of 0x80, ie directions values are in the range 128 -> 128 + 7.

                           ^ Y axis (downwards when displayed)
                           |
                +----------+---------+
                | \        |        /|
                |  \128 + 2|128 + 1/ |
                |   \      |      /  |
                |    \     |     /   |
                |     \    |    /    |
                |      \   |   /     |
                |       \  |  /      |
                |128 + 3 \ | /128 + 0|
                |         \|/        |
                +----------O---------+--> X axis
                |         /|\        |
                |128 + 4 / | \128 + 7|
                |       /  |  \      |
                |      /   |   \     |
                |     /    |    \    |
                |    /     |     \   |
                |   /      |      \  |
                |  /128 + 5|128 + 6\ |
                | /        |        \|
                +----------+---------+

Parameters

grdM	Gradient magnitude.
grdZ	Gradient (partial derivative) through planes.
grdY	Gradient (partial derivative) through lines.
grdX	Gradient (partial derivative) through columns.
minThrV	Minimum gradient value to consider.
dstErr	Destination error pointer, may be null.

References _WlzObject::domain, _WlzObject::type, _WlzObject::values, WLZ_2D_DOMAINOBJ, WLZ_ERR_NONE, WLZ_ERR_OBJECT_NULL, WlzIntersectN(), and WlzMakeMain().

Referenced by WlzCannyDeriche().