Publications by Simon Barthelme

New version of imager package for image processing

A new version of imager is now available on CRAN. This release brings a lot of new features, including a whole new set of functions dealing with pixel sets, better support for videos, new and faster reduction functions. The most significant change is the introduction of a “pixset” class, which deals with sets of pixels (for instance, the set ...

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Superpixels in imager

Superpixels are used in image segmentation as a pre-processing step. Instead of segmenting pixels directly, we first group similar pixels into “super-pixels”, which can then be processed further (and more cheaply). (image from Wikimedia) The current version of imager doesn’t implement them, but it turns out that SLIC superpixels are partic...

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Stippling and TSP art in R: emulating StippleGen

Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots (Wikipedia).StippleGen is a piece of software that renders images using stipple patterns, which I discovered on Xi’an’s blog a couple days ago. Stippled version of a sketch by Paul Cézanne, rendered in R StippleGen uses an algorithm ...

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