I have two images that I want to display on top of each other. one image a single channel image and the second image is a RGB image but with most of the area being transparent.
How these two images are generated in different functions. I know to just display these on top of each other, i can use the same window name when calling cvShowImage() but this doesn't work when they are drawn from different functions. When trying this, I used cvCvtcolor() to convert he binary image from single channel to RGB and then displaying the second image from another function. But this didn't work. Both images are same dimension, depth and number of channels (after conversion).
I want to avoid passing in one image into the second function and then draw them. So I'm looking for a quick dirty trick to display these two images overlapped.
Thank you
EDIT:
I don't think that's possible. You'll have to create a new image or modify an existing one. Here's an article that shows how to do this: Transparent image overlays in OpenCV
There is no way to "overlay" images. cvShowImage() displays a single image from memory. You'll need to blend/combine them together. There are several ways to do this.
You can copy one into 1 or 2 channels of the other, you can use logical operations like AND, OR or XOR, you can use arithmetic operations like Add, Multiply and MultiplyScale (these operations will saturate values larger than 255). All these can also be done with an optional mask image like your blob image.
Naturally, you may want to do this into a third buffer so as not to overwrite your originals.
Apparently now it can be done using OpenCV 2.1 version
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/cpp/highgui_qt_new_functions.html#cv-displayoverlay
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I'm trying to create an iOS recoloring app (this is my reference), and i need to know how recolor some portion of the image when user taps on a given area. All the loaded pictures will be black/white initially.
Is there any prebuilt library? Or which graphics framework should i use?
Any help will be appreciated.
If what you are looking for is adding/replacing the colour within a certain shape and edges are really important (as in the example) then you should be looking into vectorised drawing.
What this means is every shape in your image would have an actual object representation in your code, and you could easily interact with that object to do whatever you want (i.e. tap gestures to change colour, zoom etc.).
This however, means that you can't simply use .jpeg images, and you need to use images in vector format, such as .svg or CorelDraw.
As a reference, check out SVGKit, which is an excellent library for working with SVG images.
I have two image views. They are "puzzle pieces" I want to test if one fits inside the other. Not that the frames overlap. I guess its a CGRect thing... but seems like they test the outer boundaries. Any ideas would be appreciated? Thanks.
Just brainstorming here... Maybe this will get you thinking of something that will work for you. If the images do not overlap, then drawing image A on top of image B will result in the same image as drawing image B on top of image A. If they overlap, that will result in different images. You could do something like draw image A, then B. Create a checksum of the result, draw A again, and checksum that. If the checksums match, the puzzle piece fits.
If you have a 1-bit mask that represents each image, then ORing them together and XORing them together will have the same result if they don't overlap and different results if they do.
Do you know the correct order of pieces beforehand? May be it's better assign the tag to each UIImageView which will represent the image's index number. Then you just create a kind of mesh and check in which cell the piece was placed. If the cell number and UIImageView tag match - then this is the right place.
If you have only two images and one must fit to the specific area in another, you could store the frame of this hole and check if the piece is placed somewhere around the centre of this frame. It'll be more user-friendly because when you're checking pixels or bit masks you want the user be extremely precise. Or your comparison code should allow some shifts and will be very complicated.
But if you don't want to hardcode the hole frame you could calculate it dynamically (just find transparent areas in the image). Anyway, this solution will be more effective then checking bit match on the fly.
I have a task where I need to track a series of objects across several frames, and compose the background from the image. The issue arises because one of the objects does not move until near the end, so I'm forced to take a shoddy average of the image. However, if I can blur out the objects, I think I'll be able to improve the background average.
I can identify a subsection of the image where the object is, an m by m array. I just need the ability to blur out this section with a filter. However, imfilter uses a fullsized array (image) as its input, so I cannot simply move along this array pixel by pixel in a for loop. But, if I try removing the image to take an image, I cannot put it back in without using another for loop, which would be computational expensive.
Is there a method of mapping a blur to a subsection of an image using MATLAB? Can this be done without using two for loops?
Try this...
sub_image = original_image(ii:jj,mm:nn)
blurred_sub_image = imfilter(sub_image, etc)
original_iamge(ii:jj,mm:nn) = blurred_sub_image
In short, you don't need to use a for loop to address a subsection of an image. You can do it directly, both for reading and writing.
I'm drawing some cars. They're Bitmap's, loaded from PNG's in the library. I need to be able to color the cars-- red ones and green ones and blue ones, whatever. However, when you paint the car green, the tires should stay black, and the windows stay window-color.
I know of two ways to handle this, neither one of which makes me happy. First, I could have two bitmaps for each car; one underneath for the body color, and one on top for detail bits. The underneath bitmap gets its transform.colorTransform set to turn the white car-body into whatever color I need. Not great, because I end up with twice as many Bitmap's running around on screen at runtime.
Second, I could programmatically search-and-replace "white" with "car-body" color when I load the bitmap for each car. Not great either, because the amount of memory I take up multiplies by however many colors I need.
What I would LIKE would be a way to say "draw this Bitmap with JUST THE WHITE PARTS turned into this other color" at runtime. Is there anything like this available? I will be less than surprised if the answer is "no," but I figure it's worth asking.
You might have answered the question yourself.
I think your first approach would need only two transparent images: one with pixels of the parts that need to change colour, one with the rest of the image. You will use colorTransform or ColorMatrix filter by case. It might even work with having the pixels the need the colour change covered with Sprite with a flat colour set on overlay ?
The downside would be that you will need to create a 'colour map'/set of pixels to replace for each different item that will need colour replacement.
For the second approach:
You might isolate the areas using something like threshold().
For speed, you might want either to store the indices of the pixels you need to replace in an Vector.<int> object that could be used in conjuction with BitmapData's getVector() method. (You would loop once to fetch the pixel indices that need to be replaced)
Since you will use the same image(same dimensions) to fill the same content with a different colour, you'll always loop through the same pixels. Also keep in mind that you will gain a bit of speed by using lock() before your loop to setPixel() and unlock() after the loop.
Alternatively you could use Pixel Bender and try some green screen/background subtraction techniques. It should be fast and wouldn't delay the execution of the rest of your as3 code as Pixel Bender code runs in it's own thread.
Also check out Lee's Pixel Bender subtraction technique too.
Although it's a bit old now, you can use some knowledge from #Quasimondo's article too.
HTH
I'm a little confused where you see the difference between your second approach and the one you would like to have. You can go over your loaded bitmap pixel by pixel and read out the color. If it turns out to be white replace it with another color. I do not see occurence of multiplied memory consumption.
You might want to try my selective color transform: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000614.php - it's from 2006, so some parts of it could probably be replaced by a pixel bender filter now.
Why not just load the pieces separately, perform the color transform on the one you want to change, then do a BitmapData.copyPixels() with the result? The blit routine runs in machine code, so is wicked fast. Doing it pixel by pixel in ActionScript would be glacially slow in comparison.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/BitmapData.html#copyPixels()
I'd like to have an image and a combo box with 2 options: color, and black and white. When the combo box selection changes, I'd like to return the image as black and white and have this done dynamically on the server (so I don't have to store the black and white image on the server).
I was thinking I could point the img tag at a url like "/images/blackandwhite/120" where 120 is the image id of the color picture, and have it dynamically turn the image to black and white and return the image data to the browser.
Is this possible? How would I do this?
Storing two copies of the image will be much more efficient than processing the image everytime it is requested.
However, you might be able to get away with using CSS image filters:
filter:gray
Paperclip, by default, is prepared to "alter" images. The objects used for modifying the images are called "processors". Paperclip comes with just one processor, for making thumbnails.
Processors don't do what you want; they "process" the image "once", when the original image is loaded. They require the "processed" images to be stored permanently. If you erase the images, they don't re-create them; they throw an exception.
However, by looking at the source code you can learn how to do what you want.
Here's the relevant code that makes the thumbnails). As you can see, it simply calls "convert" (the Imagemagick command) with certain parameters.
This should point you in the right direction. For example: You could create a method in your model that creates the black and white version of your image inside /tmp/, and probably another one for deleting it. Your controller would have to call the former, send the image, and then delete the file.
There are several options in creating black and white images with Imagemagick - for example, you can create "real" black and white (2 colors only) or grayscale images. This forum post details the Imagemagick commands for several options.
Finally, a suggestion. If instead of this
/images/blackandwhite/120
Consider using this:
/images/120?color=blackandwhite
This way, you will not have to add additional routes, and your controller will be more restful. Then, on your show action, you just have to check whether param[:color] equals "blackandwhite"