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azimuthal median [message #58026]

Mon, 14 January 2008 05:22

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Bringfried Stecklum
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Registered: January 1996

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Hi folks,

I am looking for a faster way to compute the azimuthal median in
dependence on radius than the brute-force method, i.e. getting the index
of pixels within a certain annulus, and using median(image[idx]). Is
this another case for the histogram wizards out there?

regards,

Bringfried

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Re: azimuthal median [message #58079 is a reply to message #58026]

Wed, 16 January 2008 05:46

Bringfried Stecklum
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Dear Brian and Wox,

thanks to both of you. What I am doing right now is to set up an array
which holds the radius values, and use the reverse indices returned by
histogram (applied to the radius array) to access the data. This speeds
up things quite a bit.

with kind regards,

Bringfried

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Re: azimuthal median [message #58081 is a reply to message #58026]

Wed, 16 January 2008 00:38

Wox
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Registered: August 2006

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:48:12 +0100, Wox <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:22:10 +0100, Bringfried Stecklum
> <stecklum@tls-tautenburg.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am looking for a faster way to compute the azimuthal median in
>> dependence on radius than the brute-force method, i.e. getting the index
>> of pixels within a certain annulus, and using median(image[idx]). Is
>> this another case for the histogram wizards out there?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Bringfried
>
> I'm not familiar azimuthal median but what about image warping:
>
>
> ; Make azimuthal range
> a0=0.
> a1=2*!pi
> ai=0.1
> na=ceil((a1-a0)/ai)+1
> ai=(a1-a0)/(na-1)
> a=a0+ai*indgen(na)
>
> ; Make radial range
> r0=10.
> r1=20.
> ri=0.1
> nr=ceil((r1-r0)/ri)+1
> ri=(r1-r0)/(nr-1)
> r=r0+ri*indgen(nr)
>
> ; Radius and azimuth for warped image
> r=rebin(r,nr,na,/sample)
> a=rebin(transpose(a),nr,na,/sample)
>
> ; X and Y for warped image (xc,yc is center)
> xmap=xc+r*cos(a)
> ymap=yc+r*sin(a)
>
> ; Warped image
> oimage=Interpolate(image,xmap,ymap,/cubic)
>
> ; Median
> m=median(oimage,dim=1)

Should be m=median(oimage,dim=2) otherwise you get the median as a
function of azimuth.

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Re: azimuthal median [message #58108 is a reply to message #58026]

Tue, 15 January 2008 07:57

Brian Larsen
Messages: 270
Registered: June 2006

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Bringfried,

I do this all the time and histogram is definitely the correct way. I
find that I have to reread the horrors of histogram often (although
less often lately, maybe I am learning). http://www.dfanning.com/tips/histogram_tutorial.html

The basic idea is that you have to setup histogram to have bins where
you want them then pull the indices out with reverse_indices.

I have a few to many things this second to make an example but in sudo
code it is like this (for me)

;; get the data
;; run histogram on the data
hi = histogram(data, binzise=0.4, min=1, reverse_indices=ri)
for i=0l, n_elements(hi)-1 do begin
;; do the reverse indices magic to get the right indices
;; do whatever computation and store it somewhere
endfor

Cheers,

Brian

------------------------------------------------------------ --------------
Brian Larsen
Boston University
Center for Space Physics

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Re: azimuthal median [message #58115 is a reply to message #58026]

Tue, 15 January 2008 01:48

Wox
Messages: 184
Registered: August 2006

Senior Member

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:22:10 +0100, Bringfried Stecklum
<stecklum@tls-tautenburg.de> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I am looking for a faster way to compute the azimuthal median in
> dependence on radius than the brute-force method, i.e. getting the index
> of pixels within a certain annulus, and using median(image[idx]). Is
> this another case for the histogram wizards out there?
>
> regards,
>
> Bringfried

I'm not familiar azimuthal median but what about image warping:

; Make azimuthal range
a0=0.
a1=2*!pi
ai=0.1
na=ceil((a1-a0)/ai)+1
ai=(a1-a0)/(na-1)
a=a0+ai*indgen(na)

; Make radial range
r0=10.
r1=20.
ri=0.1
nr=ceil((r1-r0)/ri)+1
ri=(r1-r0)/(nr-1)
r=r0+ri*indgen(nr)

; Radius and azimuth for warped image
r=rebin(r,nr,na,/sample)
a=rebin(transpose(a),nr,na,/sample)

; X and Y for warped image (xc,yc is center)
xmap=xc+r*cos(a)
ymap=yc+r*sin(a)

; Warped image
oimage=Interpolate(image,xmap,ymap,/cubic)

; Median
m=median(oimage,dim=1)

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Re: azimuthal median - final remark [message #58207 is a reply to message #58079]

Thu, 17 January 2008 02:53

Bringfried Stecklum
Messages: 75
Registered: January 1996

Member

Another improvement is to compute the radial indices only once, and
account for the different object positions in the image by accessing the
proper index range, i.e. object_idx=idx[r]+nx_pixels*ypos+xpos.

Bringfried Stecklum wrote:
> Dear Brian and Wox,
>
> thanks to both of you. What I am doing right now is to set up an array
> which holds the radius values, and use the reverse indices returned by
> histogram (applied to the radius array) to access the data. This speeds
> up things quite a bit.
>
> with kind regards,
>
> Bringfried

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