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Re: not-quite meidan filter [message #72733 is a reply to message #72727]

Thu, 30 September 2010 14:22

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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JJ writes:

> I would like to do something that is similar to, but not quite the
> same as, a median filter to a 2D array. Instead of choosing the
> median value in a box surrounding each pixel, I would like to chose
> the value in that box that occurs most frequently.
>
> For example, if I had
>
> 1 1 1 1 1
> 1 1 1 1 1
> 2 2 2 2 2
> 2 2 3 3 3
> 3 3 3 3 3
>
> The median would be 2, but I would want the value 1 (it occurs 10
> times, which is more than the 8 instances of the value 3 or the 7
> instances of the value 2).
>
> Can anyone think of a clever way to do this that would be fast in IDL
> (ie, no looping through the pixels)? I need it to work for box sizes
> up to around 21. Ties may be broken arbitrarily.
>
> Is there already a name for this concept?

I don't know. This article might give you some ideas,
though:

http://www.dfanning.com/idl_way/smregval.html

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: not-quite meidan filter By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 01 October 2010 04:42
		Re: not-quite meidan filter By: David Fanning on Thu, 30 September 2010 14:22
		Re: not-quite meidan filter By: JJ on Thu, 30 September 2010 14:06
		Re: not-quite meidan filter By: jeanh on Thu, 30 September 2010 13:51
		Re: not-quite meidan filter By: Gray on Thu, 30 September 2010 13:29

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