morphology op• Data kinds: image → image
• Call: fullseye.apply(img, "gdilate", a=0.5, b=0.5) (the 2-D model is one image plus two scalar knobs a,b∈[0,1])
• HALCON equivalent: gray_dilation (the HALCON reference is a useful guide to its meaning and parameters)
*The figure is the actual output on a synthetic 128×128 input. Left: input, right: output. Point clouds are drawn as a top-down scatter (brightness = z), 1-D series as a line plot, volumes as the maximum-intensity projection along z, videos as the middle frame, complex images as magnitude; return values that are not pictures are shown as the values themselves.*
Sweeping knob a (0.1 / 0.5 / 0.9, the other knob at its default):
▸ gdilate: knob a sweep (docs site)
Sweeping knob b (0.1 / 0.5 / 0.9, the other knob at its default):
▸ gdilate: knob b sweep (docs site)
On other images (synthetic scene / photo / coins. Top row: inputs, bottom row: their outputs. Knobs at default):
▸ gdilate: other inputs (docs site)
*No colour (H,W,3) input is shown: this op treats the colour channel as a third spatial axis (it crosses channels). Call it per channel.*
Grayscale dilation (expands toward brighter values). Equivalent to HALCON's gray_dilation (Perform a gray value dilation on an image.).
a sweeps the side length of the structuring element over 3,5,7,9 (_k(a)). b selects the shape of the structuring element: b <= 0.5 gives a square (the behaviour up to 2026-09-17; separable, hence fastest), then cross / disc / horizontal line. The disc corresponds to HALCON's gen_disc_se; the horizontal line is used to even out only the vertical direction while keeping directional defects (horizontal streaks) intact. ★ Anything other than the square goes through a footprint, so it is noticeably slower. For the square it is equivalent to a maximum filter over a rectangular window (_max_filter).
Knobs (measured): a acts in discrete steps; it switches at a ≈ 0.25、0.49、0.75 (measured on a sweep of step 0.02).
• gallery2d_morphology family guide
• 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.
The program below has been verified to run (same input as the figure). In Studio's help this block becomes buttons that load and run it on the spot.
gdilate 0.35 0.50
▸ Load this pipeline · Load & run
• gallery2d_morphology — py -3.11 examples/gallery2d_morphology.py
image as input)identity · gaussian · mean_box · bilateral · unsharp · median · min_filter · max_filter
morphology)gerode · gopen · gclose · runlength_smear · tophat · bothat · morph_grad · persistence_map
*Provenance: ops.py — 2D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*
© 2026 Kazufumi Furuse — Fullseye operator documentation. Licensed under Apache-2.0.