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ConvertPixelType


Header: AVL.h
Namespace: avl
Module: FoundationLite

Changes the type of pixel components.

Syntax

C++
C#
 
void avl::ConvertPixelType
(
	const avl::Image& inImage,
	atl::Optional<const avl::Region&> inRoi,
	avl::PlainType::Type inNewType,
	int inDepthDelta,
	avl::Image& outImage
)

Parameters

Name Type Range Default Description
inImage const Image& Input image
inRoi Optional<const Region&> NIL Range of pixels to be processed
inNewType PlainType::Type UInt8 Type of the output image
inDepthDelta int -30 - 30 0 Pixel values will be multiplied by 2^inDepthDelta. For example, use -4 to convert 12-bit to 8-bit images.
outImage Image& Output image

Description

The operation alters the pixel component format of the inImage. Available formats are listed in the documentation of the Image data type.

If the value of pixel component doesn't fit in the range of the new type, it is clipped to the nearest proper value, which can lead to the significant loss of information, as demonstrated in the example.

Examples

ConvertPixelType run on example image of UInt8 type with inNewType being Int8. Note that bright pixels suffered from clipping, while dark ones remained unaltered.

Hardware Acceleration

This operation supports automatic parallelization for multicore and multiprocessor systems.

Errors

List of possible exceptions:

Error type Description
DomainError Region exceeds an input image in ConvertPixelType.