subpix op• Data kinds: image → contour
• Call: fullseye.apply(img, "sp_plateaus", a=0.5, b=0.5) (the 2-D model is one image plus two scalar knobs a,b∈[0,1])
• HALCON equivalent: plateaus (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):
▸ sp_plateaus: knob a sweep (docs site)
*Knob b does not change the output (measured: identical at 0.1 / 0.5 / 0.9).*
On other images (synthetic scene / photo / coins. Top row: inputs, bottom row: their outputs. Knobs at default):
▸ sp_plateaus: other inputs (docs site)
*The 4th column is a colour (H,W,3) input. This op handles colour without crossing channels (it does not convolve the colour channel as a third spatial axis).*
Returns the centroid of connected flat regions (plateaus) of equal (quantised) gray value as a sub-pixel position (equivalent to HALCON plateaus).
Neighbouring pixels are regarded as the same flat region if they are equal within the threshold q = 1e-6 + 0.05*a (connected components via Union-Find). a sweeps both this tolerated quantization width and the minimum area (min_area = 2 + round(6*a); smaller regions are ignored). b is unused. Returns a CONTOUR with 1 point per plateau (the mean of that region's pixel coordinates, in pixels). If the input exceeds 200,000 pixels, it errs on the safe side and returns the empty set (computational-cost guard).
• gallery2d_geometry family guide
• measurement_uncertainty — Measurement uncertainty and calibration — what it takes to claim you are measuring
• 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.
sp_plateaus 0.50 0.50
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• gallery2d_geometry — py -3.11 examples/gallery2d_geometry.py
contour as input)identity · select_contours · smooth_contours · fit_line_contours · contours_to_region · count_contours · total_length · select_contours_xld
subpix)sp_local_max_sub_pix · sp_local_min_sub_pix · sp_saddle_points_sub_pix · sp_critical_points_sub_pix · sp_lowlands_center
*Provenance: ops.py — 2D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*
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