tf_rank_transform — 2D texture op

Data kinds: imageimage

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

tf_rank_transform: 入力 → 出力

*The figure is the real output on a synthetic 128×128 input. Left: input, right: output (a non-image return value is shown as the value itself).*

Usage

rank_transform: the local rank of each pixel among its neighbours.

Each pixel's value is the fraction of neighbours in a `(2r+1)x(2r+1)` window

that it strictly exceeds (`r = 1 + round(a*2); b` unused), i.e. its

ordinal rank normalized to [0,1]. Like the census transform it depends only on

pixel ordering, so it is invariant to a global gain: multiplying the image by

any positive constant leaves every rank unchanged (robust to illumination gain

for stereo/texture).

Detailed usage guide

gallery2d_texture_freq 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.

Try it in Studio

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.

tf_rank_transform 0.50 0.50

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Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

gallery2d_texture_freqpy -3.11 examples/gallery2d_texture_freq.py

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

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

Same category (texture)

std_filter · gabor · sk_frangi · sk_meijering · sk_hessian · sk_gabor · sk_lbp · sk_entropy


*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.