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FitSegmentToEdges

Header:	AVL.h
Namespace:	avl
Module:	MetrologyPro

Performs a series of 1D edge detections and finds a segment that best matches the detected points.

Applications: Precise detection of a straight edge, whose rough location is known beforehand.

Syntax

void avl::FitSegmentToEdges
(
	const avl::Image& inImage,
	const avl::SegmentFittingMap& inFittingMap,
	const EdgeScanParams& inEdgeScanParams,
	avl::Selection::Type inEdgeSelection,
	atl::Optional<const avl::LocalBlindness&> inLocalBlindness,
	float inMaxIncompleteness,
	atl::Optional<avl::LineMEstimator::Type> inOutlierSuppression,
	atl::Conditional<avl::Segment2D>& outSegment,
	atl::Optional<atl::Array<atl::Conditional<avl::Edge1D>>&> outEdges = atl::NIL,
	atl::Optional<atl::Conditional<avl::Profile>&> outDeviationProfile = atl::NIL,
	atl::Optional<atl::Array<avl::Point2D>&> outInliers = atl::NIL,
	atl::Array<avl::Profile>& diagBrightnessProfiles,
	atl::Array<avl::Profile>& diagResponseProfiles
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Range	Default	Description
inImage	const Image&			Image to fit segment to
inFittingMap	const SegmentFittingMap&			Input fitting map
inEdgeScanParams	const EdgeScanParams&			Parameters controlling the edge extraction process
inEdgeSelection	Selection::Type		Selection::Best	Selection mode of edges
inLocalBlindness	Optional<const LocalBlindness&>		NIL	Defines conditions in which weaker edges can be detected in the vicinity of stronger edges
inMaxIncompleteness	float	0.0 - 0.999	0.1f	Maximal fraction of edge points not found
inOutlierSuppression	Optional<LineMEstimator::Type>		NIL	Selects a method for ignoring incorrectly detected points
outSegment	Conditional<Segment2D>&			Fitted segment or nothing if the fitting fails
outEdges	Optional<Array<Conditional<Edge1D>>&>		NIL	Found edges
outDeviationProfile	Optional<Conditional<Profile>&>		NIL	Profile of distances between the actual segment points and the corresponding reference segment points
outInliers	Optional<Array<Point2D>&>		NIL	Points matching the fitting segment
diagBrightnessProfiles	Array<Profile>&			Extracted image profiles
diagResponseProfiles	Array<Profile>&			Profiles of the edge (derivative) operator response

Optional Outputs

The computation of following outputs can be switched off by passing value atl::NIL to these parameters: outEdges, outDeviationProfile, outInliers.

Description

The operation tries to fit a given segment to edges present in the inImage image. Internally, it performs a series of scans with the ScanSingleEdge filter using inFittingMap previously generated from the object being fitted. The found points are then used to determine the actual position of the segment in the image. Only inMaxIncompleteness fraction of these scans may fail. If the fitting according to the given parameters is not possible, outSegment is set to Nil.

Hints

Connect an input image to the inImage input.
Define inEdgeScanParams.EdgeTransition to detect a particular edge type, and only that type.
If no or too few edge points are found, try decreasing inEdgeScanParams.MinMagnitude.
If some of the scans may fail, set the inMaxIncompleteness input accordingly.
If some of the scans may produce false results, try different values of the inOutlierSuppression input.
Use the outEdges outputs to visualize the scanning results.

Examples

Fitting two segments to the edges of a blister
(inEdgeScanParams.EdgeTransition = DarkToBright, inEdgeScanParams.SmoothingStdDev = 1.0).

Remarks

Read more about Local Coordinate Systems in Machine Vision Guide: Local Coordinate Systems.

This filter is a part of the Shape Fitting toolset. To read more about this technique, one can refer to the Shape Fitting chapter of our Machine Vision Guide

Hardware Acceleration

This operation supports automatic parallelization for multicore and multiprocessor systems.