extrema1

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Name

extrema1 - detection of local minima and maxima

Syntax

 #include <xite/extrema.h>

 int extrema1( IBAND inband, IBAND outband,
    int fg, int bg );

Description

Local extrema (minima and maxima) are detected in inband, and marked in outband with value fg, foreground. All other pixels are marked bg, background. If you need to distinguish between minima and maxima, see extrema2.

Restrictions

Supports only unsigned byte.

See also

extrema1(1), extrema2(3), minima(3), maxima(3)

Return value

 0 => ok
 1 => bad input pixel type
 2 => bad output pixel type
 3 => bad fg or bg value

Reference

B.B. Chaudhuri and B.Uma Shankar: "An efficient algorithm for extrema detection in digital images" Pattern Recognition Letters 10 (1989), 81-85.

Author

Tor L|nnestad, BLAB, ifi, UiO

Id

$Id: extrema1.c,v 1.20 1996/11/08 14:03:21 svein Exp $