deform_tps — 2D deformation op

Data kinds: imageimage

Call: fullseye.apply(img, "deform_tps", a=0.5, b=0.5) (the 2-D model is one image plus two scalar knobs a,b∈[0,1])

Usage

Thin-plate-spline warp over a 5x5 control grid (Bookstein, TPAMI 1989).

The 3x3 interior control points are displaced by the deterministic smooth

field `d = amp * [sin(2 pi f gx), cos(2 pi f gy)]` (gy, gx = the control

point's normalised coordinates), the 16 border control points are pinned so

the frame stays anchored. The backward map is the TPS interpolant fitted

from the *displaced* control points back to the original ones -- the unique

minimum-bending-energy interpolant, i.e. the surface a thin metal plate

would take -- and it is evaluated at every destination pixel before bilinear

resampling. `a sets the amplitude amp = 0.15*a*min(H,W), b` the

spatial frequency `f = 0.5 + 1.5b. a = 0` leaves the control points

where they are, so the solved map is the identity (up to sub-pixel resampling error).

Detailed usage guide

gallery2d_geometry family guide

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

gallery2d_geometrypy -3.11 examples/gallery2d_geometry.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept image as input)

identity · gaussian · mean_box · bilateral · unsharp · median · min_filter · max_filter

Same category (deformation)

deform_ffd · deform_mls


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