2010.02.08 10:47 "[Tiff] fftw and TIFF files", by

2010.02.09 09:11 "Re: [Tiff] FFT on two TIFF images", by John

On 9 February 2010 08:16, Gil, Debora, VF-ES (dgilalv) STU <debora.gil@vodafone.com> wrote:

Thanks Andy and Richard, some other people pointed out the possibility of using OpenImageIO. It looks good and I'll give it a try.

Another possibility might be the vips image processing library (I'm one of the maintainers). It uses libliff and libfftw and has convenient functions for doing various Fourier-domain correlation operations. It has a Python binding, so it's very easy to use.

  http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk

It's LGPL. The Python binding doesn't currently work on WIndows. It comes with all the major Linux distributions.

So, in the receiving part, I have both, the sent image and the received image. I want to compare them, to see if the line has caused any error. Both images are of course the same size. I have several types of images, some are multipage TIFF.

I guess there is no paper involved?

If that's the case a very simple solution would be just so subtract the two images and count the non-zeros. You could normalise to the image size and calculate an error rate.

In vips python, that would be:

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#!/usr/bin/python

from vipsCC import *

a = VImage.VImage ("image1.tif")
b = VImage.VImage ("image2.tif")

# average absolute difference

# vips unpacks 1 bit images to 8 bits 0/255, so divide by that avg = (a.subtract (b)).abs ().avg () / 255

# that'll be very small, so display as errors - per - megapixel print 'errors per million pixels:', avg * 1000000

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John