2009.09.10 13:31 "[Tiff] Manually convert 16-bit grayscale image data to
8-bit grayscale in Borland c++", by Robert Zermeno
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2009.09.10 13:31 "[Tiff] Manually convert 16-bit grayscale image data to 8-bit grayscale in Borland c++", by Robert Zermeno
Hi everyone,
I have been using this website and mail archieve exclusively finding answers to the questions I had recently. Thanks a bunch for your knowledge. However, I am stuck with this issue i cannot find and answer to because everyone is using the libtiff library to perform the action.
I am creating an application to manually read in the bits from the file into memory to be displayed in Borland (I have to read certain segment of a file given an offset and extract an (x,y) size sub-image of an image. What I mean by manually, is I parse through the header and footer myself using fseek() and fread(), and use the stripOffset and StripByteCount to perform a fread() for each strip of image data.
How on earth may I be able to convert my 16-bit grayscale image data to 8-bit? I have been able to take 2 bytes to a short value, then truncate it to a single byte like so:
unsigned short value16 = *TmpBits++;
value16 = value16 + (*TmpBits++ << 8)
pBits[curPix++] = (value16/257. + .5) //convert value to double and round up.
where pBits is my BYTE array to hold image data and TmpBits is another BYTE array of size StripByteCount.
When I dislpay my data in Borland through a TImage object, I will recieve my image (meaning, you can make out my object I am looking at, but the gray values for each pixel is way off. Sometimes too much white and some pixels are correct for black) but the gray coloration is way off. I have to do this because in Borland, to create my HBITMAP from a bmp object it must be in 1,4,8 or 24 bpp image. I then pass this created HBITMAP to an TBitmap object and associate this Bitmap to an TImage for display purposes.
It works well with 8-bit images, but I cannot get the 16-bit data to work. Here is my tag information to help out what my issue is:
NewSubfileType 254 LONG 1 0
ImageWidth 256 LONG 1 14592
ImageLength 257 LONG 1 6940
BitsPerSample 258 SHORT 1 16
Compression 259 SHORT 1 1
PhotometricInterpretation 262 SHORT 1 1
ImageDescription 270 ASCII 13 Space Imaging
StripOffsets 273 LONG 6940 56040 85224 114408 143592...
SamplesPerPixel 277 SHORT 1 1
RowsPerStrip 278 SHORT 1 1
StripByteCounts 279 LONG 6940 29184 29184 29184 29184...
MinSampleValue 280 SHORT 1 0
MaxSampleValue 281 SHORT 1