extrema2

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Name

extrema2 - detection of local minima and maxima

Syntax

extrema2 [-min <min>] [-max <max>] [-bg <bg>] <inimage> <outimage>

Description

Local extrema (minima and maxima) are detected in inband, and marked in outband. Minima are marked with value min, maxima are marked max, and all other pixels are marked bg, background. If you do not want to distinguish between minima and maxima, see extrema1.

The default for min is 0, the max default is 255, the bg default is 128.

See also

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

Restrictions

Supports ony unsigned byte images. min, max and bg should not be equal, and they should be in 0..255.

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

Examples

 extrema2 -min 0 -max 1 -bg 2 mona.img monaextrem.img

Id

$Id: extrema2.c,v 1.20 1996/11/08 14:03:22 svein Exp $