ColorToGrayscale

Separates a color image into its three grayscale components.

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For an introduction to image filters: section Color Transforms.

ColorToGrayscale extracts the three channels of a color image and output them into three grayscale output images.

See also

Function Syntax

This function returns a ColorToGrayscaleOutput structure containing outputGrayImage1, outputGrayImage2 and outputGrayImage3.

// Output structure of the colorToGrayscale function.
struct ColorToGrayscaleOutput
{
    /// The first channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
    std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage1;
    /// The second channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
    std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage2;
    /// The third channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
    std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage3;
};

// Function prototype
ColorToGrayscaleOutput
colorToGrayscale( std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > inputColorImage,
                  std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage1 = NULL,
                  std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage2 = NULL,
                  std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage3 = NULL );

This function returns a tuple containing output_gray_image1, output_gray_image2 and output_gray_image3.

// Function prototype.
color_to_grayscale( input_color_image,
                    output_gray_image1 = None,
                    output_gray_image2 = None,
                    output_gray_image3 = None )

This function returns a ColorToGrayscaleOutput structure containing outputGrayImage1, outputGrayImage2 and outputGrayImage3.

/// Output structure of the ColorToGrayscale function.
public struct ColorToGrayscaleOutput
{
    /// 
    /// The first channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
    /// 
    public IOLink.ImageView outputGrayImage1;
    /// 
    /// The second channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
    /// 
    public IOLink.ImageView outputGrayImage2;
    /// 
    /// The third channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
    /// 
    public IOLink.ImageView outputGrayImage3;
};

// Function prototype.
public static ColorToGrayscaleOutput
ColorToGrayscale( IOLink.ImageView inputColorImage,
                  IOLink.ImageView outputGrayImage1 = null,
                  IOLink.ImageView outputGrayImage2 = null,
                  IOLink.ImageView outputGrayImage3 = null );

Class Syntax

// Command constructor.
ColorToGrayscale();

/// Gets the inputColorImage parameter.
/// The color input image.
std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > inputColorImage() const;
/// Sets the inputColorImage parameter.
/// The color input image.
void setInputColorImage( std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > inputColorImage );

/// Gets the outputGrayImage1 parameter.
/// The first channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage1() const;
/// Sets the outputGrayImage1 parameter.
/// The first channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
void setOutputGrayImage1( std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage1 );

/// Gets the outputGrayImage2 parameter.
/// The second channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage2() const;
/// Sets the outputGrayImage2 parameter.
/// The second channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
void setOutputGrayImage2( std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage2 );

/// Gets the outputGrayImage3 parameter.
/// The third channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage3() const;
/// Sets the outputGrayImage3 parameter.
/// The third channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.
void setOutputGrayImage3( std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > outputGrayImage3 );


// Method to launch the command.
void execute();

# Property of the inputColorImage parameter.
ColorToGrayscale.input_color_image
# Property of the outputGrayImage1 parameter.
ColorToGrayscale.output_gray_image1
# Property of the outputGrayImage2 parameter.
ColorToGrayscale.output_gray_image2
# Property of the outputGrayImage3 parameter.
ColorToGrayscale.output_gray_image3

// Method to launch the command.
execute()

// Command constructor.
ColorToGrayscale()

// Property of the inputColorImage parameter.
ColorToGrayscale.inputColorImage
// Property of the outputGrayImage1 parameter.
ColorToGrayscale.outputGrayImage1
// Property of the outputGrayImage2 parameter.
ColorToGrayscale.outputGrayImage2
// Property of the outputGrayImage3 parameter.
ColorToGrayscale.outputGrayImage3

// Method to launch the command.
Execute()

Parameters

	Description	Type	Supported Values	Default Value
inputColorImage	The color input image.	Image	Multispectral	nullptr
outputGrayImage1	The first channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	Image		nullptr
outputGrayImage2	The second channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	Image		nullptr
outputGrayImage3	The third channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	Image		nullptr

	Description	Type	Supported Values	Default Value
input_color_image	The color input image.	image	Multispectral	None
output_gray_image1	The first channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	image		None
output_gray_image2	The second channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	image		None
output_gray_image3	The third channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	image		None

	Description	Type	Supported Values	Default Value
inputColorImage	The color input image.	Image	Multispectral	null
outputGrayImage1	The first channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	Image		null
outputGrayImage2	The second channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	Image		null
outputGrayImage3	The third channel output image. Its spatial dimensions and type are forced to the same values as the input.	Image		null

Object Examples

std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > ateneub = ioformat::readImage( std::string( IMAGEDEVDATA_IMAGES_FOLDER ) + "ateneub.jpg" );

ColorToGrayscale colorToGrayscaleAlgo;
colorToGrayscaleAlgo.setInputColorImage( ateneub );
colorToGrayscaleAlgo.execute();

std::cout << "outputGrayImage1:" << colorToGrayscaleAlgo.outputGrayImage1()->toString();
std::cout << "outputGrayImage2:" << colorToGrayscaleAlgo.outputGrayImage2()->toString();
std::cout << "outputGrayImage3:" << colorToGrayscaleAlgo.outputGrayImage3()->toString();

ateneub = ioformat.read_image(imagedev_data.get_image_path("ateneub.jpg"))

color_to_grayscale_algo = imagedev.ColorToGrayscale()
color_to_grayscale_algo.input_color_image = ateneub
color_to_grayscale_algo.execute()

print( "output_gray_image1:", str( color_to_grayscale_algo.output_gray_image1 ) )
print( "output_gray_image2:", str( color_to_grayscale_algo.output_gray_image2 ) )
print( "output_gray_image3:", str( color_to_grayscale_algo.output_gray_image3 ) )

ImageView ateneub = ViewIO.ReadImage( @"Data/images/ateneub.jpg" );

ColorToGrayscale colorToGrayscaleAlgo = new ColorToGrayscale
{
    inputColorImage = ateneub
};
colorToGrayscaleAlgo.Execute();

Console.WriteLine( "outputGrayImage1:" + colorToGrayscaleAlgo.outputGrayImage1.ToString() );
Console.WriteLine( "outputGrayImage2:" + colorToGrayscaleAlgo.outputGrayImage2.ToString() );
Console.WriteLine( "outputGrayImage3:" + colorToGrayscaleAlgo.outputGrayImage3.ToString() );

Function Examples

std::shared_ptr< iolink::ImageView > ateneub = ioformat::readImage( std::string( IMAGEDEVDATA_IMAGES_FOLDER ) + "ateneub.jpg" );

auto result = colorToGrayscale( ateneub );

std::cout << "outputGrayImage1:" << result.outputGrayImage1->toString();
std::cout << "outputGrayImage2:" << result.outputGrayImage2->toString();
std::cout << "outputGrayImage3:" << result.outputGrayImage3->toString();

ateneub = ioformat.read_image(imagedev_data.get_image_path("ateneub.jpg"))

result_output_gray_image1, result_output_gray_image2, result_output_gray_image3 = imagedev.color_to_grayscale( ateneub )

print( "output_gray_image1:", str( result_output_gray_image1 ) )
print( "output_gray_image2:", str( result_output_gray_image2 ) )
print( "output_gray_image3:", str( result_output_gray_image3 ) )

ImageView ateneub = ViewIO.ReadImage( @"Data/images/ateneub.jpg" );

Processing.ColorToGrayscaleOutput result = Processing.ColorToGrayscale( ateneub );

Console.WriteLine( "outputGrayImage1:" + result.outputGrayImage1.ToString() );
Console.WriteLine( "outputGrayImage2:" + result.outputGrayImage2.ToString() );
Console.WriteLine( "outputGrayImage3:" + result.outputGrayImage3.ToString() );