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list manipulation - Slope and frequency of line-like structure in image


I have the following image:


enter image description here


A linear structure of parallel bright stripes is seen going from the lower left to the upper right edge of the image.


I want to determine the mean slope and frequency of these stripes.



To measure the slope, I tried the following code.


ed = 22;
edgeImg = EdgeDetect[img, ed];
lines = ImageLines[edgeImg];

The first 20 lines are:


HighlightImage[img, {Red, Thickness[0.01], Line /@ lines[[1 ;; 20]]}] 

enter image description here


The mean slope is then:



Mean@Table[(lines[[i, 2, 2]] - lines[[i, 1, 2]]) /
(lines[[i, 2, 1]] - lines[[i, 1, 1]]),
{i, 1, 20}]

How would you determine the slope and what do you propose to measure the stripe frequency?



Answer



Here's an extremely simple way to do this: First, load the image and calculate gradients:


img = Import["https://i.stack.imgur.com/f4iZt.png"];
pixels = ImageData[img][[All, All, 1]];


sigma = 10; (* roughly the with of a line *)
gradient =
GaussianFilter[pixels, sigma, {0, 1}] +
I GaussianFilter[pixels, sigma, {1, 0}];

I've stored the gradients as complex numbers, with the gradient in x-direction as real and gradient in y direction as imaginary part. So Abs[gradient] is the gradient strength at each pixel, and Arg[gradient] is the gradient direction.


Now, if I sum up all the gradients in the image, the gradients above and below each line will cancel each other, as they point in opposite directions. But if I sum up all the gradients squared, angles are doubled, so gradients pointing in opposite directions will add up:


sumSquaredGradient = Total[gradient^2, ∞];

So I get the mean gradient direction (weighted by the gradient strength) over the whole image as:



angle = Arg[Sqrt[sumSquaredGradient]]

That's it. Three lines of code. The rest is just display to verify the result:


{w, h} = ImageDimensions[img];
Show[
ImageAdjust[GaussianFilter[img, sigma]],
Graphics[
{
Red,
Table[

Line[{{0, y}, {w, w*Cot[angle] + y}}],
{y, 0, h, 20}]
}]]

enter image description here


As I said, this is probably one of the simplest things you can do. The sigma parameter basically selects the gradient scale you're looking at. For fine-tuning, you can try preprocessing the image (e.g. ImageAdjust[RidgeFilter[img, 10]] looks good), or you can re-weight the gradients, either iteratively, based on direction (to reduce the influence of "outlier" angles) or source image brightness.


Fun fact: If the orientation is not constant over the whole image, you can also use this to get the average orientation in a neighborhood, by using a large smoothing filter instead of a sum overall pixels.


To illustrate this, I'll add a circular disturbance to the data:


pixels = ImageData[img][[All, All, 1]];
pixels[[;; 200, ;; 200]] +=

0.5 GaussianFilter[DiskMatrix[50, 200], 30];

...calculate the gradient as above...


sigma = 10;
gradient =
GaussianFilter[pixels, sigma, {0, 1}] +
I GaussianFilter[pixels, sigma, {1, 0}];

then find a smoothed orientation for a 50-pixel neighborhood around each pixel.


smoothedOrientation = Sqrt[GaussianFilter[gradient^2, 50]];


Visualization:


stream = ListStreamPlot[
Reverse[ReIm[I*Conjugate@smoothedOrientation]]\[Transpose],
AspectRatio -> h/w, StreamStyle -> Red];
Show[Image[Rescale@pixels], stream]

enter image description here


ADD: how you find with your code the stripe frequency?


You could obviously use a Fourier transform for that, but it's probably even simpler to just rotate the image so the stripes are vertically aligned and take the mean over all rows:



rotate = ImageRotate[img, angle];
columnMean = Mean[ImageData[rotate][[All, All, 1]]];

Which looks like this:


ListLinePlot[columnMean, 
Epilog -> {Red, Point[FindPeaks[columnMean]]}]

enter image description here


And then take the differences between the peak positions:


Differences[FindPeaks[columnMean][[All, 1]]]



{37, 31, 36, 35, 42, 31, 38, 40, 35, 41, 43, 36, 33, 42, 37, 39, 30, 37, 34, 31, 29, 29}



Which is centered around 36 pixels.


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