Image Warp Preserving Content Intensity

DOI10.1137/21M1452688MaRDI QIDQ5056915zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Enrico Segre

Publication date 8 December 2022

Published in SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06256

zbMATH Keywords

warpingphotometryimage distortionarea resampling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Applications of general topology to computer science (e.g., digital topology, image processing) (54H30)

Abstract: An accurate method for warping images is presented. Differently from most commonly used techniques, this method guarantees the conservation of the intensity of the transformed image, evaluated as the sum of its pixel values over the whole image or over corresponding transformed subregions of it. Such property is mandatory for quantitative analysis, as, for instance, when deformed images are used to assess radiances, to measure optical fluxes from light sources, or to characterize material optical densities. The proposed method enforces area resampling by decomposing each rectangular pixel in two triangles, and projecting the pixel intensity onto half pixels of the transformed image, with weights proportional to the area of overlap of the triangular half-pixels. The result is quantitatively exact, as long as the original pixel value is assumed to represent a constant image density within the pixel area, and as long as the coordinate transformation is diffeomorphic. Implementation details and possible variations of the method are discussed.

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Uses Software

• Quicksilver
• FAIR.m
• SIPI Image Database
• ImageMagick
• scikit-image
• OpenCV
• 2D Regularized Boolean Set-Operations
• CGAL

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