tb_monogenic_orientation — 2D typed op

Data kinds: qimageimage

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

*No figure: this op takes qimage as input. A Studio program starting from an image cannot reach that type — see the runnable examples below for how it is used.*

Usage

Local orientation `atan2(R2, R1)` of a monogenic signal. → (H, W).

Radians in `[0, pi): an orientation is defined modulo pi` (a grating at

10 degrees and one at 190 degrees are the same grating), and the value is

folded into that range rather than left in `(-pi, pi]` where the same

structure would read as two different numbers on either side of a contrast

reversal. `display=True maps it to [0, 1]`.

Continuous, not quantised — the angle is read directly from two filters,

for any angle, where a steerable bank with `K` orientations interpolates

between its `K`. Measured against eight grid-exact grating orientations the

error is at most 3.6e-15 rad, including the obliques. (Whether that

buys anything downstream is a separate question, and the measured answer is

mostly *no* — see :func:riesz_displacement.)

Where it is undefined, and the mask is not the one you expect. The

orientation dies where the *Riesz vector* dies, which is at every

even-symmetric point — local phase 0 or pi, the crest of a bright or dark

line — and the amplitude is at full strength there. Measured on a 45-degree

grating, the worst orientation error over the whole frame is 0.2764 rad, at a

pixel where `|R| = 6.8e-16 and :func:monogenic_amplitude` reads

`1.0000`. So masking on the amplitude does not protect you; mask on

`hypot(q[..., 1], q[..., 2])`, the Riesz magnitude. With that mask the

error over the same eight orientations is at most 3.6e-15 rad.

Where the Riesz vector is exactly zero, `atan2(0, 0) = 0` is returned —

a *value*, not a measurement.

Raises `ValueError`: the input is not a valid quaternion field, or its

`k` component is non-zero; *display* is not a bool.

Typed bridge of the quat op `monogenic_orientation into the 2-D evolution registry: the same implementation, called under the op(v, a, b) convention. This op has no tunable parameter; a and b` are unused.

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.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• (none yet)

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

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

Same category (typed)

tb_points_to_voxel · tb_estimate_point_normals · tb_iss_keypoints · tb_angle_3points · tb_project_points · tb_render_point_depth · tb_statistical_outlier_removal · tb_radius_outlier_removal


*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.