org.jscience.computing.ai.vision
Class SobelEdgeDetectorFilter

java.lang.Object
  org.jscience.computing.ai.vision.Filter
      org.jscience.computing.ai.vision.SobelEdgeDetectorFilter

public class SobelEdgeDetectorFilter
extends Filter

This filter performs a simple edge detection algorithm (Sobel).

Constructor Summary

SobelEdgeDetectorFilter()
Creates a new instance of SobelEdgeDetector

Method Summary

java.awt.image.BufferedImage	filter(java.awt.image.BufferedImage image, java.awt.image.BufferedImage output) Run the edge detection algorithm on the image passed.
java.lang.String	toString() DOCUMENT ME!

Methods inherited from class org.jscience.computing.ai.vision.Filter

filter, verifyOutput, verifyOutput, verifyOutput

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SobelEdgeDetectorFilter

public SobelEdgeDetectorFilter()

Creates a new instance of SobelEdgeDetector

Method Detail

filter

public java.awt.image.BufferedImage filter(java.awt.image.BufferedImage image,
                                           java.awt.image.BufferedImage output)

Run the edge detection algorithm on the image passed. This filter will work on greyscale or RGB images.

Specified by:

filter in class Filter

Parameters:

image - the input image

output - the output image (optional).

Returns:

the image with the edges detected

See Also:

Filter.verifyOutput(BufferedImage,BufferedImage)

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

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Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

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