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Java Programming Notes # 458
- Preface
- General
Background Information - Preview
- Discussion and
Sample Code - Run the Program
- Summary
- What’s Next?
- References
- Complete Program
Listing
Preface
Part of a series
In an earlier lesson entitled "A Framework for Experimenting with Java 2D
Image-Processing Filters" (see References), I taught you how to write a framework program that
makes it easy to use the image-filtering classes of the Java 2D API to process the pixels in an
image and to display the processed image.
At the close of that lesson, I told you that future lessons would teach you
how to use the following image-filtering classes from the Java 2D
API:
- LookupOp
- AffineTransformOp
- BandCombineOp
- ConvolveOp
- RescaleOp
- ColorConvertOp
In several previous lessons listed in the References
section, I taught you how to use the LookupOp and the
AffineTransformOp image-filtering classes.
In this lesson, I will teach you how to use the BandCombineOp
image-filtering class to perform a variety of filtering operations on images. I will
also teach you how to extract and filter Raster objects from images.
(The use of Raster objects is completely new to this lesson.)
I will teach you how to use the remaining classes from the above
list in future lessons.
Viewing tip
You may find it useful to open another copy of this lesson in a separate
browser window. That will make it easier for you to scroll back and forth among
the different listings and figures while you are reading about them.
Supplementary material
I recommend that you also study the other lessons in my extensive collection
of online Java tutorials. You will find those lessons published at
Gamelan.com. However, as of
the date of this writing, Gamelan doesn’t maintain a consolidated index of my
Java tutorial lessons, and sometimes they are difficult to locate there. You
will find a consolidated index at
www.DickBaldwin.com.
I also recommend that you pay particular attention to the lessons listed in
the References section of this document.
General Background Information
Constructing images
Before getting into the programming details, it may be useful for you to
review the concept of how images are constructed, stored, transported, and
rendered in Java (and in most modern computer environments for that matter).
I provided a great deal of information on those topics in the earlier lesson
entitled
Processing Image Pixels using Java, Getting Started. Therefore, I won’t
repeat that information here. Rather, I will simply refer you back to the
earlier lesson.
The framework program named ImgMod05
It will also be useful for you to understand the behavior of the framework
program named ImgMod05. Therefore, I strongly recommend that you study
the earlier lesson entitled "A Framework for Experimenting with Java 2D
Image-Processing Filters" (see References).
However, if you don’t have the time to do that, you should take a look at the
earlier lesson entitled "Using the Java 2D LookupOp Filter Class to Process
Images" (see References), in which I summarized the behavior of the framework program named
ImgMod05.
Preview
In this lesson, I will present and explain an image-processing program named
ImgMod41 that is compatible with the framework program named ImgMod05.
The program GUI
The program GUI is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 |
In addition to providing instructions to the user, this GUI allows the user to specify the location and
dimensions of a rectangular area within the original image, from which a Raster
object will be extracted. The GUI also allows the user to specify the
values in a 3×4 image-processing matrix having three rows and four columns that
is used to process the raster using the BandCombineOp image-filtering
class.
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BufferedImage objects versus
Raster objects
As I mentioned earlier, the use of Raster objects is completely new to
this lesson.
Unlike some of the other image-filtering classes in the Java 2D API that can
operate either on BufferedImage objects or on Raster objects, the
BandCombineOp filter can operate only on Raster objects.
Image-filtering methodology
For the BandCombineOp class, the red, green, and blue values of each
pixel are treated as a column matrix. A 1 is appended onto the end of each
column matrix producing a set of four-element column matrices that represents
all of the pixels in the input Raster object. (Each pixel is
represented by a four-element column matrix.)
Each pixel in the output Raster is produced by multiplying a
user-specified 3×4 image-processing matrix by the 4×1 column matrix that represents
the corresponding pixel in the input Raster. The same 3×4 processing
matrix is applied to every input pixel. (An example of the values in
such a 3×4 image-processing
matrix is shown in the bottom of Figure 1.)
This makes it possible to cause the intensity or shade of each of the three
colors (red, green, and blue) in each pixel of the output Raster
to be a function of the combined intensities of all three colors of the
corresponding pixel in the input Raster, (plus a constant that is
equal to the rightmost value in the corresponding row of the image-processing matrix).
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Potential arithmetic overflow
It is unclear in the documentation what happens to the output color value if
the value resulting from the matrix multiplication and the addition of the
constant falls outside the range from 0 to 255. However, observation of the
results indicates that rather than clipping the value to force it to be within
the range from 0 to 255, the value is allowed to overflow and become corrupt.
(See Figure 6.)
Therefore, care must be exercised to avoid such overflow when setting the
multiplicative values in the processing matrix.
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A variety of interesting effects
This processing approach can lead to a variety of interesting effects. One
author says that this class can be used to create
cubist-style images
(see Figure 10).
Color inversion
As with some of the other image-filtering classes in the Java 2D API, the
BandCombineOp class can easily be used to invert any or all of the colors in
an image, producing an output such as that shown in the bottom panel of
Figure
2.
Figure 2 |
All three colors were inverted in Figure 2. In addition, Figure 2
illustrates the extraction and processing of a Raster object that is 300
pixels on each side. The raster was extracted from the original image such
that the upper-left corner of the raster matches a pixel at a horizontal
coordinate of 24 and a vertical coordinate of 30 in the original image.
The user input data
The user input data that was used to process this image is shown in
Figure 3.
Figure 3 |
The user input data
The user input values used to produce the gray image in Figure 4 are shown in the
screen shot of the GUI in Figure 5.
Figure 5 |
In this case, each of the three color values in each output pixel is the sum of one
third of the red, green, and blue color values for the corresponding input
pixel.
Arithmetic overflow
The user input data
The user input values that produced Figure 6 are shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7 |
As you can see, this image-processing matrix caused the overall output image in Figure 6 to be
somewhat brighter than the output image in Figure 4.
As you can also see, this resulted in arithmetic overflow for those output
color values that exceeded a value of 255. As a result, light gray areas in
Figure 4 became black or dark gray areas, often outlined with white, in Figure 6.
A gray negative
The image in Figure 4 is very similar to an old black and white photograph.
If you use an image-processing matrix that causes each output pixel color
value to be the average of the corresponding input pixel color values (as in
Figure 4), and also
invert the colors in the output, the resulting image is very similar to the
negative film from an old black and white photograph. This is
illustrated by the output image in Figure 8. Whereas Figure 4 is the
positive, Figure 8 is the negative.
Figure 8 |
The user input data
If you compare Figure 8 with Figure 4, you should be able to easily see the
difference between the positive version in Figure 4 and the negative
version in Figure 8.
Now for some computer-generated artwork
For whatever it is worth, if I interpreted the previously-referenced
article correctly, the output shown in Figure 10 is a cubist-style image.
(At
least, it was produced using the same processing matrix as the one given in
that
article.)
Figure 10 |
The image-processing matrix
The image-processing matrix that produced the output image in Figure 10 is
shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11 |
However, as I mentioned earlier, given my limited knowledge of art, I will
simply have to take the
author’s word that this is a cubist-style image. Whatever it is, it
illustrates that it is possible to use the BandCombineOp class to produce
some weird and interesting effects.
Now let’s see some code.
Discussion
and Sample Code
The program named ImgMod41
In this program, I will explain the behavior of a program named
ImgMod41.
A complete listing of the program is provided in Listing 14 near the end of
the lesson.
Purpose
The purpose of this program is to illustrate the use of the BandCombineOp
image-filtering class of the Java 2D API. (See general comments in the
class named ImgMod038 that I explained in the earlier lesson entitled
"Using the Java 2D LookupOp Filter Class to Process Images" (see
References). Those
comments apply to
this program also.)
Compatible with ImgMod05
The program named ImgMod41 is compatible with
the use of the framework program named ImgMod05. In other words, ImgMod41
can be run under the control of ImgMod05.
The framework
program named ImgMod05 displays the original and the filtered images as
shown in the top and bottom panels of Figure 2. ImgMod05 also writes the
filtered image into an output file
in JPEG format. The name of the output file is junk.jpg and it is
written into the current directory.
Running the program
Enter the following at the command line to run this program:
java ImgMod05 ImgMod41 ImageFileName
If the program is unable to load the image file within ten seconds, it will
abort with an error message.
A user-input GUI
Image processing programs that run under the control of ImgMod05 may provide a GUI for user
data input. This makes it possible for the user to modify the behavior of the image-processing method each time the Replot button is clicked.
The GUI
that is provided by this program is shown in Figure 1. This program GUI
provides:
- User
instructions. - Text fields used to specify the upper-left corner, the width, and
the height of a rectangle that is used to extract a Raster. - Text fields used to specify the values in a 3×4
image-processing matrix having three rows and four columns.
Operates only on Raster objects
As explained earlier, the BandCombineOp filter can only
operate on Raster objects. (It cannot operate directly on
BufferedImage objects.) The rectangle
described above is used to extract a rectangular Raster object from the original image.
Initialization
The rectangle values are initialized so
that the rectangle is the same size as the image and overlays the entire image. In
other words, the initial rectangle contains the complete image.
The matrix values described above are
initialized so as to simply pass the input image through to the output without
modification.
Image-filtering methodology
I explained the image-filtering methodology involving the multiplication of
matrices earlier.
Program testing
This program was tested
using J2SE 5.0 under WinXP.
Will explain in fragments
I will explain this program in fragments. A complete listing of the
program is provided in Listing 14.
The class definition
The class definition begins in Listing 1.
class ImgMod41 extends Frame implements ImgIntfc05{
//Components used to construct the main panel.
// Components that require local access only are defined
// locally. Others are defined here as instance
// variables.
Panel mainPanel = new Panel();//main control panel
//Text fields for specifying the Rectangle object values.
TextField rectXcoorField = new TextField("0");
TextField rectYcoorField = new TextField("0");
TextField rectWidthField = new TextField("0");
TextField rectHeightField = new TextField("0");
//Text fields for specifying the matrix values.
//Top row
TextField matrix00Field = new TextField("1.0");
TextField matrix01Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix02Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix03Field = new TextField("0.0");
//Middle row
TextField matrix10Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix11Field = new TextField("1.0");
TextField matrix12Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix13Field = new TextField("0.0");
//Bottom row
TextField matrix20Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix21Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix22Field = new TextField("1.0");
TextField matrix23Field = new TextField("0.0");
//The following Label is used to notify of data entry
// errors.
String okMessage = "No data entry errors detected.";
Label errorMsg = new Label(okMessage);
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The code in Listing 1 is straightforward and should not require further
explanation beyond the embedded comments.
The constructor
The constructor is shown in its entirety in Listing 2.
ImgMod41(){//constructor
constructMainPanel();
add(mainPanel);
setTitle("Copyright 2006, R.G.Baldwin");
setBounds(555,0,470,600);
setVisible(true);
//Define a WindowListener to terminate the program.
addWindowListener(
new WindowAdapter(){
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
System.exit(1);
}//end windowClosing
}//end windowAdapter
);//end addWindowListener
}//end constructor
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This is the primary constructor. It calls another method to actually construct the main panel so as to separate the construction of the GUI into easily understandable units.
The method named constructMainPanel
The method named constructMainPanel is shown in its entirety in
Listing 3. This method constructs the main GUI panel
(shown in Figure 1) containing all of the controls. This method is called from the primary
constructor in Listing 2.
void constructMainPanel(){
mainPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
//Create and add the instructional text to the panel.
// This text appears in a disabled text area at the
// top of the panel.
String text ="COMBINING COLOR BAND DATAn"
+ "This program illustrates the use of the "
+ "BandCombineOp filter class of the Java 2D "
+ "API.nn"
+ "Specify the coordinates of the upper-left corner "
+ "along with the width and the height of a "
+ "rectangle that either exactly overlays or fits "
+ "inside of the original image. This rectangle is "
+ "used to extract a rectangular Raster with a "
+ "corresponding location and size from the "
+ "image.nn"
+ "Specify the twelve values in a 3x4 processing "
+ "matrix and then click the Replot button to "
+ "process the image.nn"
+ "The initial width and height values match the "
+ "size of the image. Set the width value to 0 and "
+ "click the Replot button to recover the width and "
+ "height of the image.nn"
+ "The red, green, and blue values from each input "
+ "pixel plus a value of 1 is used to construct a "
+ "1x4 column matrix that represents each input "
+ "pixel.nn"
+ "Each output pixel is produced by multiplying the "
+ "1x4 column matrix representing each input pixel "
+ "by the 3x4 processing matrix.nn"
+ "Apparently output color values greater than 255 "
+ "or less than 0 simply result in corrupt values "
+ "in the output.";
//Note: The number of columns specified for the
// following TextArea is immaterial because the
// TextArea object is placed in the NORTH location of
// a BorderLayout.
TextArea textArea = new TextArea(text,22,1,
TextArea.SCROLLBARS_NONE);
mainPanel.add(textArea,BorderLayout.NORTH);
textArea.setEnabled(false);
//Construct the control panel and add it to the Center
// of the main panel.
Panel controlPanel = new Panel();
controlPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(8,4));
//Add a row of labels
controlPanel.add(new Label("RECTANGLE"));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
//Add another row of labels
controlPanel.add(new Label("X-Coordinate"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Y-Coordinate"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Width"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Height"));
//Add the text fields for the rectangle
controlPanel.add(rectXcoorField);
controlPanel.add(rectYcoorField);
controlPanel.add(rectWidthField);
controlPanel.add(rectHeightField);
//Add another row of labels
controlPanel.add(new Label("MATRIX"));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
//Add another row of labels
controlPanel.add(new Label("Red multiplier"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Green multiplier"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Blue multiplier"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Additive constant"));
//Add top row of matix text fields
controlPanel.add(matrix00Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix01Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix02Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix03Field);
//Add middle row of matrix text fields
controlPanel.add(matrix10Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix11Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix12Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix13Field);
//Add bottom row of matrix text fields
controlPanel.add(matrix20Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix21Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix22Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix23Field);
mainPanel.add(controlPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
//Add the errorMsg
mainPanel.add(errorMsg,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
}//end constructMainPanel
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Although somewhat long and tedious, the code in Listing 3 is straightforward.
If you use Figure 1 as a guide, you should have no difficulty following the code
in Listing 3.
The processImg method
The processImg method is shown in its entirety in Listing 4.
This method must be defined to implement the ImgIntfc05 interface, which
is a requirement for compatibility with the framework program named ImgMod05.
The processImg method is called by the framework program named ImgMod05.
Note that this method, in turn, calls the method named processMainPanel.
public BufferedImage processImg(BufferedImage theImage){
BufferedImage outputImage = processMainPanel(theImage);
return outputImage;
}//end processImg
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The method named processMainPanel
This method is really the heart of the image-processing program named
ImgMod41. The method begins in Listing 5.
BufferedImage processMainPanel(BufferedImage theImage){
//Reset the error message to the default.
errorMsg.setText(okMessage);
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
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This method uses the BandCombineOp image-filtering class to process
the image according to the rectangle and matrix values
provided by the user via the program GUI shown in Figure 1.
The method is called from within the method named processImg in
Listing 4.
The code in Listing 5 initializes the error panel
(shown in green in Figure 1)
to its default condition.
Initialize the rectangle location and size
Listing 6 initializes the contents of the text fields that specify the
rectangle so as to include the entire image within the rectangle.
if((rectWidthField.getText().equals("0"))
|| (rectHeightField.getText().equals("0"))){
rectWidthField.setText("" +theImage.getWidth());
rectHeightField.setText("" + theImage.getHeight());
}//end if
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This initialization is performed only if either the width or height text
fields contain a 0, which is the case at startup. These values can later
be modified by the user.
(Also, for convenience, the user can later enter a 0 for
the x-coordinate, the y-coordinate, and the width and then click the Replot to
reset the rectangle values to the original image size.)
Get the contents of the rectangle fields
Listing 7 gets the contents of the rectangle fields, performing some tests to
confirm that the values are valid.
int rectXcoor,rectYcoor,rectWidth,rectHeight;
try{
rectXcoor =
Integer.parseInt(rectXcoorField.getText());
rectYcoor =
Integer.parseInt(rectYcoorField.getText());
rectWidth =
Integer.parseInt(rectWidthField.getText());
rectHeight =
Integer.parseInt(rectHeightField.getText());
}catch(java.lang.NumberFormatException e){
//Bad data in the rectangle fields. Process a 1x1
// rectangle so that it will be obvious to the user
// that there is a problem.
rectXcoor = rectYcoor = rectWidth = rectHeight = 1;
errorMsg.setText(
"Bad input data for the rectangle.");
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.RED);
}//end catch
int imageWidth = theImage.getWidth();
int imageHeight = theImage.getHeight();
//Code to confirm that the rectangle falls inside the
// image.
if((rectXcoor < 0)||
(rectYcoor < 0)||
((rectXcoor + rectWidth) > imageWidth)||
((rectYcoor + rectHeight) > imageHeight))
{
//The rectangle falls outside the image. Process a
// 1x1 rectangle so that it will be obvious to the
// user that there is a problem.
rectXcoor = rectYcoor = rectWidth = rectHeight = 1;
errorMsg.setText(
"The rectangle falls outside the image.");
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.RED);
}//end if
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If the data entered into the rectangle text fields cannot be parsed to
produce values of type int, or the location and size of the rectangle is
outside the bounds of the image, the green error panel at the bottom of Figure 1
turns red and displays an error message. To correct the problem, simply
enter valid data and click the Replot button again.
Get the image-processing matrix values
Listing 8 gets the values for the image-processing matrix from the twelve
text fields at the bottom of Figure 1.
float matrix00,matrix01,matrix02,matrix03,matrix10,
matrix11,matrix12,matrix13,matrix20,matrix21,
matrix22,matrix23;
try{
matrix00 = Float.parseFloat(matrix00Field.getText());
matrix01 = Float.parseFloat(matrix01Field.getText());
matrix02 = Float.parseFloat(matrix02Field.getText());
matrix03 = Float.parseFloat(matrix03Field.getText());
matrix10 = Float.parseFloat(matrix10Field.getText());
matrix11 = Float.parseFloat(matrix11Field.getText());
matrix12 = Float.parseFloat(matrix12Field.getText());
matrix13 = Float.parseFloat(matrix13Field.getText());
matrix20 = Float.parseFloat(matrix20Field.getText());
matrix21 = Float.parseFloat(matrix21Field.getText());
matrix22 = Float.parseFloat(matrix22Field.getText());
matrix23 = Float.parseFloat(matrix23Field.getText());
}catch(java.lang.NumberFormatException e){
//Bad input data for the matrix. Cause the output
// image to be black so that it will be obvious to
// the user that there is a problem.
matrix00 = matrix01 = matrix02 = matrix03 =
matrix10 = matrix11 = matrix12 = matrix13 =
matrix20 = matrix21 = matrix22 = matrix23 = 0.0f;
errorMsg.setText("Bad input data for the matrix.");
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.RED);
}//end catch
//Now populate the matrix
float[][] matrix =
{{matrix00,matrix01,matrix02,matrix03},
{matrix10,matrix11,matrix12,matrix13},
{matrix20,matrix21,matrix22,matrix23}
};
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If the values entered by the user into the text fields can’t be parsed to
produce valid values of type float, the error panel in the bottom of
Figure 1 turns red and displays an error message. To correct the problem,
simply correct the entry in the text field and click the Replot button.
Set up the matrix array
Once the values have been fetched from the text fields to produce values of
type float, the code in Listing 8
uses those values to create and populate a 2D array object, which will be used
later in Listing 10 to create the image-filtering object.
Get the image data in a Raster object
Listing 9 invokes the method named getData on the BufferedImage
object containing the image to extract and save a rectangular set of pixel data
that matches the location and size of the rectangle.
Raster inputRaster = theImage.getData(new Rectangle(
rectXcoor,rectYcoor,rectWidth,rectHeight));
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According to Sun, the getData method "Returns the image as one
large tile." This Raster object will be used later in
Listing 11 to create a
destination raster for the filtered image.
Create the image-filtering object
Listing 10 instantiates a new image-filtering object of type
BandCombineOp.
BandCombineOp filterObj =
new BandCombineOp(matrix,null);
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The first parameter to the constructor for the BandCombineOp class is
the image-processing matrix created in Listing 8.
The second parameter allows for the use of rendering hints, but that
capability is not used in this program.
Create a destination Raster object
Listing 11 invokes the createCompatibleDestRaster method on the filter
object to create a zeroed destination Raster with the correct size and number of
color bands.
WritableRaster destinationRaster =
filterObj.createCompatibleDestRaster(inputRaster);
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The createCompatibleDestRaster method
This method returns a reference to an object of type WritableRaster,
which is a subclass of Raster. Part of what Sun has to say about
the WritableRaster class is shown in Figure 12.
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This class extends Raster to provide pixel writing capabilities. Refer to the class comment for Raster for descriptions of how a Raster stores pixels. The constructors of this class are protected. To instantiate a Figure 12 |
Obviously, it is also possible to create a WritableRaster object by
invoking the createCompatibleDestRaster method of the BandCombineOp
class as was done in Listing 11.
Apply the filter to the image
Listing 12 applies the filter to the raster that contains the image and
deposits the filtered image in the destination raster.
filterObj.filter(inputRaster,destinationRaster); |
Return the filtered image
Listing 13 converts the destination raster to a BufferedImage object and
returns a reference to the BufferedImage object.
return new BufferedImage(theImage.getColorModel(),
destinationRaster,
false,
null);
}//end processMainPanel
}//end class ImgMod41
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The first parameter causes the ColorModel for the output image to be
the same as the ColorModel for the input image. The second
parameter is a reference to the WritableRaster object that contains the
filtered image.
The third parameter indicates that the color values have not been
pre-multiplied by the alpha values. The fourth parameter allows for the
inclusion of some properties in a Hashtable object. (I will
leave it as an exercise for the reader to investigate and understand the
meaning and purpose of the third and fourth parameters.)
End of the method and end of the program
Listing 13 also signals the end of the processMainPanel method and the
end of the program named ImgMod41.
Run the Program
I encourage you to copy the code from Listing 14 into your text
editor. Compile the code and execute it. Experiment with it, making
changes, and observing the results of your changes.
Remember, you will also need to compile the code for the framework program
named ImgMod05 and the interface named ImgIntfc05. You will find
that source code in the earlier lesson entitled "A Framework for
Experimenting with Java 2D Image-Processing Filters" (see
References).
You will also need one or more JPEG, GIF, PNG, or BMP image files to
experiment with. You should have no difficulty finding such files at a variety
of locations on the web. I recommend that you stick with relatively small
images so that both the original image and the processed image will fit in the
vertical space on your screen in the format shown in Figure 2.
Summary
In this lesson, I provided and explained an image-processing program named
ImgMod41 that is compatible with the framework program named ImgMod05.
The purpose of this program is to show you how to write such programs, and
also to illustrate a variety of different uses for the BandCombineOp
class of the Java 2D API.
I also showed you how to extract a Raster object from a
BufferedImage, how to filter the raster, and how to convert the filtered
result back into a BufferedImage.
What’s Next?
Future lessons in this series will teach you how to use the following
image-filtering classes from the Java 2D API:
- ConvolveOp
- RescaleOp
- ColorConvertOp
References
- 400
Processing Image Pixels using Java, Getting Started - 402
Processing Image Pixels using Java, Creating a Spotlight - 404
Processing Image Pixels Using Java: Controlling Contrast and Brightness - 406
Processing Image Pixels, Color Intensity, Color Filtering, and Color
Inversion - 408
Processing Image Pixels, Performing Convolution on Images - 410
Processing Image Pixels, Understanding Image Convolution in Java - 412
Processing Image Pixels, Applying Image Convolution in Java, Part 1 - 414
Processing Image Pixels, Applying Image Convolution in Java, Part 2 - 416
Processing Image Pixels, An Improved Image-Processing Framework in Java - 450
A Framework for Experimenting with Java 2D Image-Processing Filters - 452
Using the Java 2D LookupOp Filter Class to Process Images - 454 Using the Java 2D AffineTransformOp Filter Class to Process Images
- 456 Using the Java 2D LookupOp Filter Class to Scramble and Unscramble
Images
Complete Program Listing
A complete listing of the program discussed in this lesson is shown in
Listing 14.
/*File ImgMod41.java
Copyright 2006, R.G.Baldwin
The purpose of this class is to illustrate the use of the
BandCombineOp image-filtering class of the Java 2D API.
See general comments in the class named ImgMod038.
This class is compatible with the use of the framework
program named ImgMod05.
The framework program named ImgMod05 displays the original
and the modified images. It also writes the modified image
into an output file in JPEG format. The name of the output
file is junk.jpg and it is written into the current
directory.
Image processing programs such as this one may provide a
GUI for data input making it possible for the user to
modify the behavior of the image processing method each
time the Replot button is clicked. Such a GUI is provided
for this program.
Enter the following at the command line to run this
program:
java ImgMod05 ImgMod41 ImageFileName
If the program is unable to load the image file within ten
seconds, it will abort with an error message.
This program creates a GUI containing:
User instructions
Text fields used to specify the upper-left corner, the
width, and the height of a rectangle.
Text fields used to specify the values in a 3x4 processing
matrix having three rows and four columns.
Unlike some of the other image-filtering classes in the
Java 2D API that can operate either directly on
BufferedImage objects or on Raster objects, the
BandCombineOp filter can only operate on Raster objects.
The rectangle is used to extract a rectangular Raster
object from the original image.
The rectangle values are initialized so that the rectangle
is the same size as the image and overlays the entire
image. In other words, the rectangle contains the complete
image.
The matrix values are initialized so as to simply pass the
input image through to the output without modification..
The red, green, and blue values of each pixel are treated
as a column matrix. A 1 is appended onto the end of the
column matrix producing a set of four-element column
matrices that represents each pixel in the input Raster
object.
Each pixel in the output Raster is produced by multiplying
the 3x4 processing matrix by the 4x1 column matrix that
represents the corresponding pixel in the input Raster.
This makes it possible to cause the intensity of each color
in each pixel of the output Raster to be a function of the
intensities of all three colors of the corresponding pixel
in the input Raster, plus a constant that is equal to the
rightmost value in the corresponding row of the processing
matrix.
It is unclear in the documentation what happens to the
output color value if the value resulting from the matrix
multiplication falls outside the range from 0 to 255.
However, observation of the results suggests that rather
than clipping the value to be within the range from 0 to
255, the value is allowed to become corrupt.Therefore, care
must be exercised to avoid such overflow when setting the
multiplicative values in the processing matrix.
Tested using J2SE 5.0 under WinXP.
**********************************************************/
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class ImgMod41 extends Frame implements ImgIntfc05{
//Components used to construct the main panel.
// Components that require local access only are defined
// locally. Others are defined here as instance
// variables.
Panel mainPanel = new Panel();//main control panel
//Text fields for specifying the Rectangle object values.
TextField rectXcoorField = new TextField("0");
TextField rectYcoorField = new TextField("0");
TextField rectWidthField = new TextField("0");
TextField rectHeightField = new TextField("0");
//Text fields for specifying the matrix values.
//Top row
TextField matrix00Field = new TextField("1.0");
TextField matrix01Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix02Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix03Field = new TextField("0.0");
//Middle row
TextField matrix10Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix11Field = new TextField("1.0");
TextField matrix12Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix13Field = new TextField("0.0");
//Bottom row
TextField matrix20Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix21Field = new TextField("0.0");
TextField matrix22Field = new TextField("1.0");
TextField matrix23Field = new TextField("0.0");
//The following Label is used to notify of data entry
// errors.
String okMessage = "No data entry errors detected.";
Label errorMsg = new Label(okMessage);
//-----------------------------------------------------//
//This is the primary constructor. It calls another
// method to construct the main panel so as to separate
// the construction of the GUI into easily
// understandable units.
ImgMod41(){//constructor
constructMainPanel();
add(mainPanel);
setTitle("Copyright 2006, R.G.Baldwin");
setBounds(555,0,470,600);
setVisible(true);
//Define a WindowListener to terminate the program.
addWindowListener(
new WindowAdapter(){
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
System.exit(1);
}//end windowClosing
}//end windowAdapter
);//end addWindowListener
}//end constructor
//-----------------------------------------------------//
//This method constructs the main panel containing all of
// the controls. This method is called from the primary
// constructor.
void constructMainPanel(){
mainPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
//Create and add the instructional text to the panel.
// This text appears in a disabled text area at the
// top of the panel.
String text ="COMBINING COLOR BAND DATAn"
+ "This program illustrates the use of the "
+ "BandCombineOp filter class of the Java 2D "
+ "API.nn"
+ "Specify the coordinates of the upper-left corner "
+ "along with the width and the height of a "
+ "rectangle that either exactly overlays or fits "
+ "inside of the original image. This rectangle is "
+ "used to extract a rectangular Raster with a "
+ "corresponding location and size from the "
+ "image.nn"
+ "Specify the twelve values in a 3x4 processing "
+ "matrix and then click the Replot button to "
+ "process the image.nn"
+ "The initial width and height values match the "
+ "size of the image. Set the width value to 0 and "
+ "click the Replot button to recover the width and "
+ "height of the image.nn"
+ "The red, green, and blue values from each input "
+ "pixel plus a value of 1 is used to construct a "
+ "1x4 column matrix that represents each input "
+ "pixel.nn"
+ "Each output pixel is produced by multiplying the "
+ "1x4 column matrix representing each input pixel "
+ "by the 3x4 processing matrix.nn"
+ "Apparently output color values greater than 255 "
+ "or less than 0 simply result in corrupt values "
+ "in the output.";
//Note: The number of columns specified for the
// following TextArea is immaterial because the
// TextArea object is placed in the NORTH location of
// a BorderLayout.
TextArea textArea = new TextArea(text,22,1,
TextArea.SCROLLBARS_NONE);
mainPanel.add(textArea,BorderLayout.NORTH);
textArea.setEnabled(false);
//Construct the control panel and add it to the Center
// of the main panel.
Panel controlPanel = new Panel();
controlPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(8,4));
//Add a row of labels
controlPanel.add(new Label("RECTANGLE"));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
//Add another row of labels
controlPanel.add(new Label("X-Coordinate"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Y-Coordinate"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Width"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Height"));
//Add the text fields for the rectangle
controlPanel.add(rectXcoorField);
controlPanel.add(rectYcoorField);
controlPanel.add(rectWidthField);
controlPanel.add(rectHeightField);
//Add another row of labels
controlPanel.add(new Label("MATRIX"));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
controlPanel.add(new Label(""));
//Add another row of labels
controlPanel.add(new Label("Red multiplier"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Green multiplier"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Blue multiplier"));
controlPanel.add(new Label("Additive constant"));
//Add top row of matix text fields
controlPanel.add(matrix00Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix01Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix02Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix03Field);
//Add middle row of matrix text fields
controlPanel.add(matrix10Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix11Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix12Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix13Field);
//Add bottom row of matrix text fields
controlPanel.add(matrix20Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix21Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix22Field);
controlPanel.add(matrix23Field);
mainPanel.add(controlPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
//Add the errorMsg
mainPanel.add(errorMsg,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
}//end constructMainPanel
//-----------------------------------------------------//
//This method processes the image according to the
// rectangle and matrix values provided by the user.
//This method uses the BandCombineOp image-filtering
// class to process the image. The method is called from
// within the method named processImg, which is the
// primary image processing method in this program. The
// method named processImg is called by the framework
// program named ImgMod05.
BufferedImage processMainPanel(BufferedImage theImage){
//Reset the error message to the default.
errorMsg.setText(okMessage);
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
//Initialize the contents of the text fields that
// specify the rectangle so as to include the entire
// image within the rectangle. This initialization is
// performed only if either the width or height text
// fields contain a 0, which is the case at startup.
// These values can later be modified by the user.
// Also, the user can enter a 0 for the width and
// click Replot to get back to the original image size.
if((rectWidthField.getText().equals("0"))
|| (rectHeightField.getText().equals("0"))){
rectWidthField.setText("" +theImage.getWidth());
rectHeightField.setText("" + theImage.getHeight());
}//end if
//Get the contents of the rectangle fields.
int rectXcoor,rectYcoor,rectWidth,rectHeight;
try{
rectXcoor =
Integer.parseInt(rectXcoorField.getText());
rectYcoor =
Integer.parseInt(rectYcoorField.getText());
rectWidth =
Integer.parseInt(rectWidthField.getText());
rectHeight =
Integer.parseInt(rectHeightField.getText());
}catch(java.lang.NumberFormatException e){
//Bad data in the rectangle fields. Process a 1x1
// rectangle so that it will be obvious to the user
// that there is a problem.
rectXcoor = rectYcoor = rectWidth = rectHeight = 1;
errorMsg.setText(
"Bad input data for the rectangle.");
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.RED);
}//end catch
int imageWidth = theImage.getWidth();
int imageHeight = theImage.getHeight();
//Code to confirm that the rectangle falls inside the
// image.
if((rectXcoor < 0)||
(rectYcoor < 0)||
((rectXcoor + rectWidth) > imageWidth)||
((rectYcoor + rectHeight) > imageHeight))
{
//The rectangle falls outside the image. Process a
// 1x1 rectangle so that it will be obvious to the
// user that there is a problem.
rectXcoor = rectYcoor = rectWidth = rectHeight = 1;
errorMsg.setText(
"The rectangle falls outside the image.");
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.RED);
}//end if
//Get the data from the text fields for the matrix.
float matrix00,matrix01,matrix02,matrix03,matrix10,
matrix11,matrix12,matrix13,matrix20,matrix21,
matrix22,matrix23;
try{
matrix00 = Float.parseFloat(matrix00Field.getText());
matrix01 = Float.parseFloat(matrix01Field.getText());
matrix02 = Float.parseFloat(matrix02Field.getText());
matrix03 = Float.parseFloat(matrix03Field.getText());
matrix10 = Float.parseFloat(matrix10Field.getText());
matrix11 = Float.parseFloat(matrix11Field.getText());
matrix12 = Float.parseFloat(matrix12Field.getText());
matrix13 = Float.parseFloat(matrix13Field.getText());
matrix20 = Float.parseFloat(matrix20Field.getText());
matrix21 = Float.parseFloat(matrix21Field.getText());
matrix22 = Float.parseFloat(matrix22Field.getText());
matrix23 = Float.parseFloat(matrix23Field.getText());
}catch(java.lang.NumberFormatException e){
//Bad input data for the matrix. Cause the output
// image to be black so that it will be obvious to
// the user that there is a problem.
matrix00 = matrix01 = matrix02 = matrix03 =
matrix10 = matrix11 = matrix12 = matrix13 =
matrix20 = matrix21 = matrix22 = matrix23 = 0.0f;
errorMsg.setText("Bad input data for the matrix.");
errorMsg.setBackground(Color.RED);
}//end catch
//Now populate the matrix
float[][] matrix =
{{matrix00,matrix01,matrix02,matrix03},
{matrix10,matrix11,matrix12,matrix13},
{matrix20,matrix21,matrix22,matrix23}
};
//Note: Unlike some of the other filters in the Java
// 2D API that can operate either directly on
// BufferedImage objects or on Raster objects, the
// BandCombineOp filter can only operate on Raster
// objects.
//Get the Raster object that contains the image data
// inside the specified Rectangle object.
Raster inputRaster = theImage.getData(new Rectangle(
rectXcoor,rectYcoor,rectWidth,rectHeight));
//Create the filter object. The second parameter
// allows for specification of rendering hints.
BandCombineOp filterObj =
new BandCombineOp(matrix,null);
//Create a zeroed destination Raster with the correct
// size and number of bands.
WritableRaster destinationRaster =
filterObj.createCompatibleDestRaster(inputRaster);
//Apply the filter
filterObj.filter(inputRaster,destinationRaster);
//Convert the destination raster to a BufferedImage and
// return it. The first parameter causes the
// ColorModel for the output image to be the same as
// the ColorModel for the input image. The third
// parameter indicates that the color values have not
// been premultiplied by the alpha values. The fourth
// parameter allows for the inclusion of some
// properties in a Hashtable object.
return new BufferedImage(theImage.getColorModel(),
destinationRaster,
false,
null);
}//end processMainPanel
//-----------------------------------------------------//
//The following method must be defined to implement the
// ImgIntfc05 interface. It is called by the framework
// program named ImgMod05.
public BufferedImage processImg(BufferedImage theImage){
BufferedImage outputImage = processMainPanel(theImage);
return outputImage;
}//end processImg
}//end class ImgMod41
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Copyright 2007, Richard G. Baldwin. Reproduction in whole or in part in any
form or medium without express written permission from Richard Baldwin is
prohibited.
About the author
Richard Baldwin is a
college professor (at Austin Community College in Austin, TX) and private
consultant whose primary focus is a combination of Java, C#, and XML. In
addition to the many platform and/or language independent benefits of Java and
C# applications, he believes that a combination of Java, C#, and XML will become
the primary driving force in the delivery of structured information on the Web.
Richard has participated in numerous consulting projects and he
frequently provides onsite training at the high-tech companies located in and
around Austin, Texas. He is the author of Baldwin’s Programming
Tutorials, which have gained a
worldwide following among experienced and aspiring programmers. He has also
published articles in JavaPro magazine.
In addition to his programming expertise, Richard has many years of
practical experience in Digital Signal Processing (DSP). His first job after he
earned his Bachelor’s degree was doing DSP in the Seismic Research Department of
Texas Instruments. (TI is still a world leader in DSP.) In the following
years, he applied his programming and DSP expertise to other interesting areas
including sonar and underwater acoustics.
Richard holds an MSEE degree from Southern Methodist University and has
many years of experience in the application of computer technology to real-world
problems.
