| Fovea Pro (ISBN 1-928808-68-9) requires only a modest technical background in imaging and computers, but the routines are professionally written to the highest standards and correspond exactly to the methods described in "The Image Processing Handbook," 4th edition, by John C. Russ (CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8493-1142-X). The plug-ins on the disk (160 in all) provide comprehensive tools for: - Image Adjustment - leveling contrast and brightness, removing background, automatic image alignment (including de-interlace for video frames), histogram equalization and other modifications
- Color Manipulation - working in various color spaces, correcting color shifts, extracting and inserting color planes, processing images in HSI space
- Principal Components Analysis - working with anywhere from 2 to 56 channels to find the best contrast to better isolate image components.
- Image Math - add, subtract, multiply, divide, brightest, darkest, best focus, etc.
- Boolean Operations - and, or, ex-or, not, masking, plus a unique feature-and that operates on features rather than just pixels
- Fourier Processing - forward and inverse transforms, filtering, cross-correlation, deconvolution (including an interactive deconvolution with point-spread function generator)
- Morphological Operations - erosion, dilation, opening, closing, skeletonization, hit-or-miss, top-hat and rolling ball filters, in user-adjustable neighborhoods
- Neighborhood Processing - an extensive variety of state-of-the-art edge extraction, noise reduction, texture isolation, contrast enhancement, and orientation finding algorithms, many rarely found on small computer systems.
- Distance-Map Operations - erosion and dilation, openings and closing with isotropic results, and without a doubt the best watershed segmenation routine around, eliminating the subdivision of lines and other common defects
- Thresholding - manual and automatic routines, working directly in HSI space for color images, with a selection of algorithms to select optimum threshold levels or draw contour maps
- Feature Measurement - an extensive list of size, shape, position and pixel value (brightness and color) parameters, with built-in graphic displays as well as saving of all data in disk files for spreadsheet analysis
- Automatic Feature Classification - using a recipe file, this can automatically select features on the basis of any of the 55+ measurements
- Data Logging - for keeping measurement data especially useful when operating on a batch of images, logging of all data results and graphs in text and HTML.
- Calibration - distance and density calibrations can be stored and recalled for use; histograms and line profiles are displayed and also stored in disk files for subsequent analysis
- Stereology - a comprehensive set of grids of points and lines - random, oriented, radial, square, circle, cycloid, etc. - are available for microstructural measurement either manually or automatically
- Surface Rendering - isometric and stereo views, Phong shading, pseudo-color presentations enhance the visualization of surface images
- Surface Measurements - complete measurements of surface roughness, peak and valley analysis, fractal dimension, stereo pair measurement
- Automation - full recording of all functions and entered values in Photoshop Actions
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