maxima

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Name

maxima - detection of local maxima

Syntax

maxima [-bg <bg>] [-fg <fg>] <inimage> <outimage>

Description

Local maxima are detected in inimage, and marked in outimage with value fg, foreground. All other pixels are marked bg, background.

The default for fg is 255, the bg default is 0.

Files

See also

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

Diagnostics

Restrictions

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

Return 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

Examples

 maxima -fg 0 -bg 1 mona.img monamax.img

Id

$Id: maxima.c,v 1.19 1996/11/08 14:03:23 svein Exp $