Questions tagged [image-processing]
Questions on the image processing capabilities implemented in Mathematica.
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Help find a bright object on Mars!
In today's news, scientists found a bright object on one of Curiosity's photos (it's near the bottom of the picture below). It's a bit tricky to find - I actually spent quite some time staring at the ...
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QR Code in shopping cart handle
This week, the market people from my work wanted to put QR codes in shopping cart handles, but when they tested it, the QR code did not work. I noted that the cylindrical curvature (even small) ...
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Recovering data points from an image
Unfortunately, some data can only be obtained in picture form (Japanese publications anyone?). Since this cannot be worked with, it has to be converted to a dataset that can; I was wondering whether ...
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How to peel the labels from marmalade jars using Mathematica?
How can I detect and peel the label from the jar below (POV, cylinder radius, jar contents are all unknown)
to get something like this, which is the original label before it was stuck on the jar?
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Artistic image vectorization
The question is
how can we use Mathematica to create vectorized versions of low-resolution images? The goal is to get an image suitable for quality printing at any resolution.
Since "true" ...
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How to create a new "person curve"?
Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collection¹ of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha["person curve"] into a Mathematica ...
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How to make an inkblot?
How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.'s Rorschach demonstration):
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Programmatic approach to HDR photography
Update
Submitted answers here are tour de force, and very educational comp-sci-wise, -- thanks folks! Tech is developing though, and here is the current implementation in the Wolfram Language. Please ...
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Reconstruct text pages cut by shredder
Q1: I have a page of a printed text file, but it was cut by a paper shredder (from top to bottom). You can download all the paper fragments here. Here are some of them. How can I reconstruct it?
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How to create hedcut style images?
Yesterday the hedcut style was brought up in chat. How can we create a hedcut-like style automatically in Mathematica, using a photograph as a starting point?
I am looking to create a similar ...
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Image processing: Floor plan - detecting rooms' borders (area) and room names' texts
Here is a simple building floor plan. I would like to derive the rooms as (rectangular) components and the names of the rooms. This is very common representation of building floor plans.
The problem
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Torn edge paper effect for images
In my answers to Plotting Error Bars on a Log Scale I used a so called "torn edge" effect from on one of the images. @SjoerdC.deVries commented: "BTW I liked the ripped-out look of your InputForm ...
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Measuring fractal dimension of natural objects from digital images
This is a useful topic. A college physics lab, medical diagnostics, urban growth, etc. - there is a lot of applications. On this site by Paul Bourke about Google Earth fractals we can get a high ...
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How can I add drop shadows and specular highlights to 2D graphics?
I thought I'd share some code in the form of a self-answered question, but other answers are of course welcome.
Drop shadows are a familiar visual effect, giving the impression of a graphical element ...
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Composition à la Mondrian
I would like to paint something like this
or,even better, like this
I have tried
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