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1 Color Channel alignment(25 Points, Talha Siddiqui)
You have been given the red, green, and blue channels of an image1
that were taken
separately using an old technique that captured each color on a separate piece of glass2
.
These files are named red.npy, green.npy, and blue.npy respectively (in the data
folder). Because these images were taken separately, just combining them in a 3-channel
matrix may not work. For instance, Figure 1 shows what happens if you simply combine
the images without shifting any of the channels.
Your job is to take 3-channel RGB (red-green-blue) image and produce the correct
color image (closest to the original scene) as output. Because in the future you may
be hired to do this on hundreds of images, you cannot hand-align the image; you must
write a function that finds the best possible displacement.
The easiest way to do this is to exhaustively search over a window of possible displacements for the different channels (you can assume the displacement will be between
1downloaded from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/
2Credit to Kris Kitani and Alyosha Efros for this problem.
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Figure 1: Combining the red, green, and blue channels without shifting
Figure 2: Aligned image
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-30 and 30 pixels). Score the alignment from each possible displacement with some
heuristic and choose the best alignment using these scores. You can use the following
metrics:
1. Sum of Squared Differences (SSD)
This metric tries to compare the distance between two vectors, hence we can use
this to compare image pixel intensity differences. For two vectors u, v of length
N, this metric is defined as
SSD(u, v) = X
N
i=1
(u[i] − v[i])2
(essentially like the Euclidean distance metric).
2. Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC)3
This metric compares normalized unit vectors using a dot product, that is for
vectors u, v,
NCC(u, v) = u
kuk
·
v
kvk
Implement an algorithm which finds the best alignment of the three channels to
produce a good RGB image; it should look something like Figure 2. Try to avoid using for
loops when computing the metrics (SSD or NCC) for a specific offset. Some starter code
is given in script1.py and alignChannels.py. Save your result as rgb output.jpg in
the results folder. Also include the resulting image in the writeup
2 Image warping (25 Points, Rishi Madhok)
We will be writing code that performs affine warping on an image. Code has been
provided to get you started. In the following sections you will be adding your own code.
2.1 Example code
The file script2.py contains example code which demonstrates basic image loading
and displaying as well as the behavior of an image warping function. Try running
script2. You should see something like Figure 3. This script calls the function warp in
warpA_check.py, which is simply a wrapper for scipy’s own function
scipy.ndimage.affine_transform.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-correlation#Normalized_cross-correlation
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Figure 3: See script2.py
2.2 Affine warp
You will write your own function in warpA.py, that should give the same output as the
function in warpA_check.py. First we’ll walk through what you need to know about
affine transformations.
An affine transform relates two sets of points:
p
i
warped =
a b
c d
| {z }
L
p
i
source + t (1)
where p
i
source and p
i
warped denote the 2D coordinates (e.g., p
i
s = (x
i
s
, yi
s
)
T
) of the i-th
point in the source space and destination (or warped) space respectively, L is a 2 × 2
matrix representing the linear component, and t is a 2 × 1 vector representing the
translational component of the transform.
To more conveniently represent this transformation, we will use homogeneous coordinates, i.e., p
i
s and p
i
w will now denote the 2D homogeneous coordinates (e.g., p
i
s ≡
(x
i
s
, yi
s
, 1)T
), where “≡” denotes equivalence up to scale, and the transform becomes:
p
i
d ≡
L t
0 0 1
| {z }
A
p
i
s
(2)
• Implement a function that warps image im using the affine transform A:
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warp_im = warpA(im, A, output_shape)
Inputs: im is a grayscale double typed Numpy matrix of dimensions height×width×1
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, A is a 3 × 3 non-singular matrix describing the transform (p
i
warped ≡ Api
source), and
output_size=[out_height,out_width]; of the warped output image.
Outputs: warp_im of size out_size(1) × out_size(2) is the warped output image.
The coordinates of the sampled output image points p
i
warped should be the rectangular
range (0, 0) to (width − 1, height − 1) of integer values. The points p
i
source must be
chosen such that their image, Api
source, transforms to this rectangle.
Implementation-wise, this means that we will be looking up the value of each of the
destination pixels by sampling the original image at the computed p
i
source. (Note that if
you do it the other way round, i.e., by transforming each pixel in the source image to the
destination, you could get “holes” in the destination because the mapping need not be 1
to 1). In general, the transformed values p
i
source will not lie at integer locations and you
will therefore need to choose a sampling scheme; the easiest is nearest-neighbor sampling
(something like, round(p
i
source)). You should be able to implement this without using
for loops (one option is to use numpy.meshgrid and Numpy’s multidimensional indexing), although it might be easier to implement it using loops first. Save the resulting
image in results/transformed.jpg . Also include the resulting image in the
write up.
You should check your implementation to make sure it produces the same output as
the warp function provided in warpA check.py (for grayscale or RGB images). Obviously the purpose of this exercise is practicing Python/Scipy by implementing your own
function without using anything like scipy.ndimage.affine_transform.
3 Hough Transform(50 Points, Harsh & Shumian)
We learned about Hough Transform in the class. It’s a simple classical vision technique that can
help us in finding line segments in an image. In the previous questions we have learned how to
read images, perform transformations and so on. As a Computer Vision Engineer, we want you
to learn how to look up for existing libraries and effectively use them to make an end to end
system to perform a specific task (detecting line segments here!)
Your system takes in an image and performs a couple of operations to return you the line
segments in an image using Hough Transform! We have given you a couple of images to test
your implementation.
But having libraries does not mean you can skip over the math. So the first section of the
assignment consists of a couple of theory questions to check your fundamental grasp on Hough
Transform. The programming part would help you in understanding how to setup libraries and
use the inbuilt libraries to get a working system!
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Images in Numpy are indexed as im(row, col, channel) where row corresponds to the y coordinate
(height), and col to the x coordinate (width).
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3.1 Theory Questions(20 points, Shumian Xin)
Type down your answers for the following questions in your write-up. Each question should only
take a couple of lines. In particular, the “proofs” do not require any lengthy calculations. If you
are lost in many lines of complicated algebra you are doing something much too complicated (or
perhaps wrong). Each question from Q2.1 to Q2.4 are worth 5 points each.
Q2.1 Show that if you use the line equation x cos θ + y sin θ − ρ = 0, each image point (x, y)
results in a sinusoid in (ρ, θ) Hough space. Relate the amplitude and phase of the sinusoid to
the point (x, y).
Q2.2 Why do we parameterize the line in terms of (ρ, θ) instead of slope and intercept (m, c)?
Express the slope and intercept in terms of ρ and θ.
Q2.3 Assuming that the image points (x, y) are in an image of width W and height H (i.e.,
x ∈ [1, W], y ∈ [1, H]), what is the maximum absolute value of ρ and what is the range of θ?
Q2.4 For points (10, 10),(15, 15) and (30, 30) in the image,plot the corresponding sinusoid
waves in Hough space (ρ, θ) and visualize how their intersection point defines the line (what is
(m, c) for this line?). Please use matplotlib in python to plot the curves and report the result in
your write-up.
3.2 Getting started with OpenCV!
We already have the latest version of Anaconda and conda running on your systems. We would
recommend creation of a virtual environment with the with python version 3.7 installed. Using
anaconda you can use the following command to create a new virtual environment:
conda create -n cv_assignment python=3.7
The following command will help you in installing the latest build of OpenCV.
conda install -c conda-forge opencv
Check your OpenCV installation in python by typing the following command:
import cv2
If the above works without any kind of errors you are good to go. If errors persist, try
googling, stack overflowing and make it work. This step is going to save you a lot of time in
future!
3.3 Let’s get the Hough Transform running!(10 points, Harsh Agarwal)
In the code folder you have been given a script:
houghTrans.py
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You are supposed to complete the function myHough in the provided script. To test your implementation, fill in the parameters in the main function and run the script. Make sure that you
save the results obtained for each of the given test image in the results folder! So let’s say your
test image name is img01.jpg so the corresponding result should be in the results folder with
the name img01_hlines.jpg
3.4 Write Up(20 points, Harsh Agarwal)
In your write-up elaborate upon the following:
1. The inbuilt functions/libraries that you have used and what arguments/parameters they
take as input
2. The mathematical significance of every parameter that is being passed to the function.
3. Include results obtained on any 5 test images on various parameter settings. Justify the
effect using the ideas from the previous bit!
A ideal image obtained for the img01.jpg would be as follows:
4 Submission and Deliverables
Please submit a zip file to Canvas/Gradescope(will be confirmed on Piazza) for this homework of
the form .zip, and write up with the name hw1_andrew_id.pdf to Gradescope.
Running the scripts in the code folder should generate the desired results in the results folder,
as explained in each of the section. You should not include the data/ folder in your submission.
An example submission zip file should be:
hw1_sigbovik.zip:
• code/
– script1.py
– script2.py
– warpA.py
– warpA_check.py
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– houghTrans.py
– any other files your code needs to run
To Gradescope, you will submit the writeup in the pdf form:
• hw1_sigbovik.pdf
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