Image Effects, Filters, Masks and Other Image Processing Methods

We at Synthesis Corporation, a company originally born as a primarily hardware-oriented developer of custom image processing Intellectual Property, have been aware of this trend, and have been working in close collaboration with ARM to port and optimize our image processing algorithms to the Mali™-T600 series of GPUs. Mali-T600 represents the state-of-the-art in GPU architecture for mobile devices, with support for OpenGL® ES 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0, OpenCL® Full Profile and Google® RenderScript, offering the software developer support for a wide range of APIs for graphics and compute.

As a first step, we have decided to port our proprietary Super-resolution (up-scaling) and adaptive luminance/dynamic range enhancement algorithms, both of which have seen a number of design-wins in FPGA and ASIC-based products for industrial and consumer applications, but turned out to be too computationally expensive for customers who wanted an embedded software-based solution. In this blog, we would like to present an overview of these two GPU-based solutions, and report the great performance benefits achieved through optimizing these for Mali-T600 GPU Compute.

Super-resolution scaling
A digital image, or a video frame, usually consists of a 2D array of discrete sample pixels, which can only be properly displayed at a fixed screen resolution. However, screen resolution tends to vary widely across platforms, especially for mobile devices, thus making sharing of digital media content across different platforms non-trivial.

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 43 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover another single patent that relates to an advanced projection system with depth sensors.

Apple has been granted a patent today for their invention relating to image processing systems and, more specifically, to depth sensing in combination with image processing for keystoning.

It appears that Apple has a team focused on all manner of projection systems. One of Apple's engineers by the name of Aaron Leiba that is listed as an inventor on this patent was also behind a mysterious high level projection system project that the patent filing described as being the Next Great Thing.

An issue that is common to many image projection systems is image distortion. An image projection system that is placed at a non-right angle with respect to the projection screen may result in distortion of the projected image on the projection screen. For example, the image for projection may be a square, but the projected image on the projection screen may appear to the viewers as a trapezoid, may appear elongated and so on. Correcting image distortion is referred to as "keystone correction" or "keystoning." Apple's granted patent presents a solution to this problem.

Readdle has this week updated two of its most popular productivity apps for iOS, adding next-generation image processing to Scanner Pro, and a number of nee features to Calendars 5. You can now enjoy much-improved scans with better legibility in the former, as well as task creation and an app icon badge in the latter.

Most of us deal with images when writing content for the Web. Whether you’re a student, blogger, designer, photographer, or just the average user; you may need to process images one time or another. Even if it is not for work, you may need to upload images on your social network, or mail vacation photos to relatives. Basically, you need to edit and process your images.

Image processing is a time-consuming, repeittive and sometimes much-hated thing to do but it has to be done. In situations like these, batch image processors and editors come in handy. They can process many images at a time, as per the set configuration, helping you save precious time for other more important matters or tasks.

Below are a collection of 16 great batch image processors and image editors. Start processing your pictures and images more easily and efficiently today.

Image processing is making leaps and bounds as processors shrink and cloud computing takes off. It’s gotten to the point where depth can be extrapolated from single-shot photos; it takes some fancy algorithms and intense calculations, but programs can simulate/predict shapes, textures, and colors of occluded areas of a photograph. In other words, software makes a very educated guess that the blue sky will continue to be blue behind people, and the backs of heads will be round and have hair that’s of similar color and texture as what’s visible. With relative size and distance approximations, depth can also be determined. The new service 3DEFY does some version of this to generate 3D printable images from ordinary photos.

You may remember BumpyPhoto, which offers a similar service. The differences are that 3DEFY gives users control over the creation of the image and their paying for the conversion. BumpyPhoto sells actual prints. 3DEFY sells 3D files that users can then have printed by whatever service they prefer. The modeler is fairly easy to use: upload a photo, trace the subjects, push/pull to preference, and set some basic print parameters. Images can also be bent and turned. It’s fun to play with.

Making your images load faster is extremely important for page load performance on your site. It makes your pages load faster, which makes for happier visitors, and better search engine performance for your site. Page load time is also a key factor in your bounce rate. Here are some tools I use commonly to reduce image size on my sites.

Macs and image editing go hand in hand.

The Shrink O matic, what I like about this softeware is it's very fast and easy to use. You can do things like a straight optimize, rotating and sixe adjustment. It also supports mass renaming. It's free as well.

But you have to be careful with quality settings, it can get bad very quickly and you may overwrite your originals.