Extract straight edges perpendicular to a rectangle or annular arc.

measure_pos extracts straight edges which lie perpendicular to the major axis of a rectangle or annular arc.

The algorithm works by averaging the gray values in ``slices'' perpendicular to the major axis of the rectangle or annular arc in order to obtain a one-dimensional edge profile. The sampling is done at subpixel positions in the image Image at integer row and column distances (in the coordinate frame of the rectangle) from the center of the rectangle. Since this involves some calculations which can be used repeatedly in several mesurements, the operator gen_measure_rectangle2 or gen_measure_arc is used to perform these calculations only once, thus increasing the speed of measure_pos significantly. Since there is a trade-off between accuracy and speed in the subpixel calculations of the gray values, and thus in the accuracy of the extracted edge positions, different interpolation schemes can be selected in gen_measure_rectangle2. (The interpolation only influences rectangles not aligned with the image axes.) The measure object generated with gen_measure_rectangle2 is passed in MeasureHandle.

After the one-dimensional edge profile has been calculated, subpixel edge locations are computed by convolving the profile with the derivatives of a Gaussian smoothing kernel of standard deviation Sigma. Salient edges can be selected with the parameter Threshold, which constitutes a threshold on the amplitude, i.e., the absolute value of the first derivative of the edge. Additionally, it is possible to select only positive edges, i.e., edges which constitute a dark-to-light transition in the direction of the major axis of the rectangle or the arc (Transition = 'positive'), only negative edges, i.e., light-to-dark transitions (Transition = 'negative'), or both types of edges (Transition = 'all'). Finally, it is possible to select which edge points are returned. If Select is set to 'all', all edge points are returned. If it is set to 'first', only the first of the extracted edge points is returned, while it is set to 'last', only the last one is returned.

The extracted edges are returned as single points which lie on the major axis of the rectangle or arc in (RowEdge,ColumnEdge). The corresponding edge amplitudes are returned in Amplitude. In addition, the distance between consecutive edge points is returned in Distance. Here, Distance[i] corresponds to the distance between Edge[i] and Edge[i+1], i.e., the tuple Distance contains one element less than the tuples RowEdge and ColumnEdge.

measure_pos only returns meaningful results if the assumptions that the edges are straight and perpendicular to the major axis of the rectangle or arc are fulfilled. Thus, it should not be used to extract edges from curved objects, for example. Furthermore, the user should ensure that the rectangle or arc is as close to perpendicular as possible to the edges in the image. Additionally, Sigma must not become larger than approx. 0.5 * Length1 (for Length1 see gen_measure_rectangle2).

It should be kept in mind that measure_pos ignores the domain of Image for efficiency reasons. If certain regions in the image should be excluded from the measurement a new measure object with appropriately modified parameters should be generated.

If the parameter values are correct the operator measure_pos returns the value 2 (H_MSG_TRUE). Otherwise an exception handling is raised.

measure_pos is reentrant and processed without parallelization.

gen_measure_rectangle2

close_measure

edges_sub_pix, fuzzy_measure_pos

measure_pairs, fuzzy_measure_pairs, fuzzy_measure_pairing

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