Hello Bill: At some point it may a good idea to move this discussion off the list, but at this point I'll hope that those without interest in these issues are just skipping this email.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- jungle writes: > > Nicolas Robidoux wrote: > > > > > > There are already two fast nonlinear resamplers implemented in GEGL: > > > > YAFR (gegl-sampler-yafr.c) > > > > and > > > > Nohalo-sharp (gegl-sampler-sharp.c). > > > > > > I'm not familiar with those two resamplers. Of course, that's not saying > much, because it's not my area of expertise. I should mention, however, > that I consider NEDI and ICBI interpolators of a different kind than most. > > First of all, they are very slow compared to bicubic. Speed is not the > goal. > > Secondly, they don't provide a value for any point in between given pixels. > Rather, their purpose is to enlarge the image in question by a factor of 2 > (roughly. Actually it's size*2-1). After scaling, the image can be > resampled to any size desired using other methods. Both algorithms copy > known (given) pixel values into a 2x enlarged grid and then fill in the gaps > between pixels using certain assumptions about the statistical values of the > pixels. > > The main benefit of both algorithms is the performance around edges. ICBI > is an improvement on NEDI. Edges are much smoother and more natural than > bicubic. > This is how nohalo works too, The current (low quality, but highly optimized) gegl-sampler-sharp.c only subdivides once and uses bilinear as "finishing scheme." Consquently, the gegl-sampler-sharp.c code may provide a good basis for an implementation of "single subdivision" NEDI or ICBI, "one level implementations" which should give good results for resamplings which only involve moderate enlargement/stretching ratios (for nohalo, it's up to about 3-6). > I explain all this to try to decide if the goal of ICBI is > different than nohalo, and if there would be a reason to try to > code it. Is there a paper I can read on nohalo? Or examples of > results that I could compare to ICBI? Nohalo-sharp and nohalo-smooth are brand new schemes (we hope: maybe we'll find that they actually are "old"; I have to confess that I don't know as much about them as I should). We are currently writing the first paper about them. But there should be two comparison web sites coming up "soon." You can also install the current gegl svn trunk and do the testing yourself. I'll include a sample .xml file at the end of this email (adapted from something Øyvind Kolås passed on). My hunch is that, given the same subdivision level, nohalo will not "straighten" as much as NEDI/ICBI, but will show less "fine scale artifacts" and will run faster---even if programmed with the same programming skill. This being said, if you would contribute toward the programming effort involved in implementing the "higher level nohalos" (I would guess the main programming issues are basically the same as with implementing the higher subdivisions for NEDI and ICBI) I'd be happy to count you among the co-authors of the appropriate paper(s). If you just end up programming NEDI/ICBI---but don't touch nohalo---I'd be happy to use your code for our image resizing comparison suite (which should be on the web fairly soon). Nicolas Robidoux Universite Laurentienne/Laurentian University _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
