<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div style>Are some of the algorithms in Gmic already ported to Digikam?</div><div style><br></div><div style>I was thinking of implementing the suggested techniques with the help of OpenCV library. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Best Regards,</div><div style>Siddharth</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I think b) proposal is very interresting. In fact it fully relevant on GImc project which is listed in official projects list :</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/Ideas#Project:_Port_Greystoration_CImg_interface_to_GMic" target="_blank">http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/Ideas#Project:_Port_Greystoration_CImg_interface_to_GMic</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>If you take a look to GMic announcement for last release 1.5.5.1 of library, b) is already implemented :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://linuxfr.org/news/traitement-d-image-sortie-de-g-mic-1-5-5-1" target="_blank">http://linuxfr.org/news/traitement-d-image-sortie-de-g-mic-1-5-5-1</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry this announcement is in French. Use google translations to switch in English.</div><div><br></div><div>The advantage to use Gmic is to be able to use in the future a huge colection of algorithms to play with images.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2013/4/17 Siddharth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siddharthkherada27@gmail.com" target="_blank">siddharthkherada27@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am currently pursuing MS by Research in the field of computer vision and image processing at IIIT- Hyderabad, India. I am interested in working for KDE/Digikam this summer in a GSoC project.<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Some of my own ideas:<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">a) <b>Interactive Poisson Image Editing</b><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:small;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px">Image editing tasks concern either global changes (color/intensity corrections, filters, deformations) or local changes concerned to a selection. Here we are interested in achieving local changes, ones that are restricted to a region manually selected (ROI), in a seamless and effortless manner. The extent of the changes ranges from slight distortions to complete replacement by novel content. Examples:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px">Inserting objects, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px">Color Transfer, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px">Feature Exchange, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px">Texture Flattening, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px">Local illumination changes, etc.</span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://cs.engr.uky.edu/~jacobs/classes/2010_photo/readings/PoissonImageEditing.pdf" target="_blank">http://cs.engr.uky.edu/~jacobs/classes/2010_photo/readings/PoissonImageEditing.pdf</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">b) <b>Color2Gray</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:small;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px">Visually important image features often disappear when color images are converted to grayscale. This algorithm reduces such losses by attempting to preserve the salient features of the color image. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px">The Color2Gray results offer viewers salient information missing from previous grayscale image creation methods.</span><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px"><br></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~leojia/papers/decolorization_iccp12.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~leojia/papers/decolorization_iccp12.pdf</a><span style="font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:transparent;line-height:14px"><br>
</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">c) </font><b>Domain Transform for Edge-Aware Image Processing (Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering)</b></div>
<div style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The processing involves high-quality edge-preserving filtering of images (better than bilateral filter). </font><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The filter is applied on several image processing tasks including edge-preserving smoothing, </font><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Depth-of-field effects, stylization, detail enhancement, edge enhancement and gray/color pencil sketch. </span></div>
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</span></div><div style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~eslgastal/DomainTransform/Gastal_Oliveira_SIGGRAPH2011_Domain_Transform.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~eslgastal/DomainTransform/Gastal_Oliveira_SIGGRAPH2011_Domain_Transform.pdf</a><br>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">What are your views about this? </span><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</div><div style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best Regards,</span><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Siddharth</font></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - M K Gandhi
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