hough_line_trans ( Region : HoughImage : AngleResolution : )

Produce the Hough transform for lines within regions.

The operator hough_line_trans calculates the Hough transform for lines in those regions transmitted by Region. Thereby the angles and the lengths of the lines´ normal vectors are registered in the parameter space (the Hough- or accumulator space respectively). This means that the parameterization is executed according to the HNF.

The result is registered in a newly generated Int2-Image (HoughImage), whereby the x-axis is equivalent to the angle between the normal vector and the x-axis (in the original image), and the y-axis is equivalent to the distance of the line from the origin.

The angle ranges from -90 to 180 degrees and will be registered with a resolution of 1 / AngleResolution, which means that one pixel in x-direction is equivalent to 1 / AngleResolution and that the HoughImage has a width of 270 * AngleResolution + 1 pixel. The height of the HoughImage corresponds to the distance between the lower right corner of the surrounding rectangle of the input region and the origin.

The maxima in the result image are equivalent to the parameter values of the lines in the original image.


Parameters

Region (input_object)
region -> object
Binary edge image in which lines are to be detected.

HoughImage (output_object)
image -> object : int2
Hough transform for lines.

AngleResolution (input_control)
integer -> integer
Adjusting the resolution in the angle area.
Default value: 4
List of values: 1, 2, 4, 8


Result

The operator hough_line_trans returns the value 2 (H_MSG_TRUE) if the input is not empty. The behavior in case of empty input (no input regions available) is set via the operator set_system('no_object_result',<Result>), the behavior in case of empty region is set via set_system('empty_region_result',<Result>). If necessary an exception handling is raised.


Parallelization Information

hough_line_trans is reentrant and processed without parallelization.


Possible Predecessors

threshold, skeleton


Possible Successors

threshold, local_max


See also

hough_circle_trans, gen_region_hline


Module

Foundation



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