Hi,
can anybody explain the difference of the sharpen filter and the unsharp mask. Anneliese |
Hi
there is no principal difference, both will in the end enhance higher spatial frequencies relative to low spatial frequencies, however sharpening kernels enhance higher spatial frequencies by evaluating differences between adajacent pixels and adding a weighted sum to the central pixel, while the unsharp mask first goes the other way round, it creates an even less sharp version of the image and calculates a weighted difference to the original image. Depending on the weighting parameters, resp. the sharpening or smoothing kernels used, the different methods will exhibit different tradeoffs between edge steepness, overshoot etc and noise on the other hand, that´s the reason the different methods exist. Hope this helps JW Klughammer GmbH <opto@KLUGHAMMER An: [hidden email] .DE> Kopie: (Blindkopie: Joachim Wesner/DEWET/LMSCentral/Leica) Gesendet von: Thema: Sharpen Filter ImageJ Interest Group <[hidden email] .GOV> 18.07.2006 18:59 Bitte antworten an ImageJ Interest Group Hi, can anybody explain the difference of the sharpen filter and the unsharp mask. Anneliese ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ |
Because the unsharp mask subtracts a smoothed version of the original image, it should also tend to remove background gradients.
Bill -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Joachim Wesner <[hidden email]> > Hi > > there is no principal difference, both will in the end enhance higher > spatial frequencies relative to low spatial frequencies, > however sharpening kernels enhance higher spatial frequencies by evaluating > differences between adajacent pixels and > adding a weighted sum to the central pixel, while the unsharp mask first > goes the other way round, it creates an even > less sharp version of the image and calculates a weighted difference to the > original image. > > Depending on the weighting parameters, resp. the sharpening or smoothing > kernels used, the different methods will exhibit > different tradeoffs between edge steepness, overshoot etc and noise on the > other hand, that´s the reason the different > methods exist. > > Hope this helps > > JW > > > > > Klughammer GmbH > <opto@KLUGHAMMER An: [hidden email] > .DE> Kopie: (Blindkopie: Joachim > Wesner/DEWET/LMSCentral/Leica) > Gesendet von: Thema: Sharpen Filter > ImageJ Interest > Group > <[hidden email] > .GOV> > > > 18.07.2006 18:59 > Bitte antworten > an ImageJ > Interest Group > > > > > > Hi, > can anybody explain the difference of the sharpen filter and the unsharp > mask. > > Anneliese > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ |
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Check out the appropriate chapters in Russ, JH The Image Processing Handbook
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Klughammer GmbH <[hidden email]> > Hi, > can anybody explain the difference of the sharpen filter and the unsharp > mask. > > Anneliese |
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