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Arithmetic Operations A family of pixel-wise arithmetic operations for combining, transforming, and correcting image intensities. Includes add...
Bilateral Filter An edge-preserving smoothing filter that weights neighbor pixels by both spatial proximity and intensity similarity. Unl...
Canny Edge Detector A multi-stage edge detection algorithm that combines Gaussian smoothing, gradient computation, non-maximum suppression, ...
Color Space Conversions Operations for converting images between color spaces — BGR↔HLS, BGR↔HSV, BGR↔Lab, and RGB to Grayscale — enab...
Connected Component Labeling The foundational algorithm that assigns unique integer IDs to contiguous foreground regions in a binary image, transform...
Filters Overview A reference covering BOM filter operations beyond the standalone filter terms — including anisotropic diffusion, avera...
Fuse Events Operations that combine events from multiple coded images into a single unified coded image, with optional mask-based co...
Gaussian Filter The most fundamental smoothing operation in image processing — a separable convolution kernel weighted by a 2D Gaussia...
Image Data Operations Utility operations for image format manipulation — converting 16-bit to 8-bit depth, extracting individual channels fr...
Label Management Post-labeling operations for refining coded images — cutting bottlenecks between touching objects, filling holes withi...
Logical Operations Bitwise Boolean operations applied pixel-by-pixel to binary or grayscale images — AND, OR, NOT, and XOR — for combin...
Median Filter A non-linear filter that replaces each pixel with the median value of its neighborhood, excelling at removing salt-and-p...
Morphological Operations The fundamental shape-processing operations from mathematical morphology — erosion, dilation, opening, closing, gradie...
Optical Density Conversion The RGB-to-optical-density transform that converts transmitted-light RGB pixel values into absorbance (OD) values using ...
Post Processing Post-detection cleanup operations within the BOM for smoothing object boundaries, filling holes in segmented regions, re...
Quantization The process of mapping continuous intensity values to discrete digital levels
Sobel Filter A first-derivative gradient operator that uses 3×3 convolution kernels to compute horizontal and vertical intensity gra...
Statistical Operations Operations that compute statistical measures — minimum, maximum, mean, median, standard deviation, and variance — ei...
Threshold & Compare Operations for converting grayscale images into binary masks through global or local thresholding, and for comparing ima...
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