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seamlessClone runtime proportional to image size?

asked 2015-06-27 06:30:47 -0600

doriad gravatar image

updated 2018-09-14 17:36:28 -0600

I have been playing with the new seamlessClone function in OpenCV3. Of course the runtime is proportional to the size of the hole that is selected. However, I've found that with a fixed hole size, when the size of the image increases, the runtime increases substantially. For example, if I fill a 200x200 hole in a 500x500 image, it takes < 1 second. Then if I fill a 200x200 hole in a 3000x3000 image, it takes 20 seconds. (The 500x500 was a cropped version of the 3000x3000 so that the hole and source could be identical for testing to make sure it wasn't a function of the data in the hole, etc.). Can anyone confirm this behavior?

Thanks,

David

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The seamlessClone solve the poisson's equation of the entire area of the destination's image.

Ken_du gravatar imageKen_du ( 2017-11-23 02:25:42 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-06-27 08:50:26 -0600

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updated 2015-06-27 16:37:00 -0600

After a quick reading of reference I think that is not a normal behavior for normal clonning. In paragraph Discrete poison solver equation equation (7) need all pixels of boundary destination image

I think if you want reduce time may be you can extract from a small rectangle from destination greater than your paste image and use this image as destination.

But may be there is something strange in code at line 347 (opencv\modules\photo\src\seamless_cloning_impl.cpp) computeDerivatives(destination,patch,binaryMask); there is a mask but in computeDerivatives mask is not used when gradient is estimated at line 267 (opencv\modules\photo\src\seamless_cloning_impl.cpp) . I think mask defined boundary in the paper. So why computeGradientX and Y for all images?

PS @moderator In example cloning_demo.cpp I cannot found images used in this example in opencv. I have found image in this link. I can make a Pull request but that's not my example and not my images

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adding a comment saying where to find the images indeed sounds like a good idea ;)

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2015-06-27 09:13:58 -0600 )edit

Yea, I was assuming what was happening was that the derivatives were being computed for the whole image even though they were only needed in the masked region. Should I report this as a bug somewhere?

doriad gravatar imagedoriad ( 2015-06-27 16:19:59 -0600 )edit
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May be but it's not logical for Normal cloning method and that's only my opinion. I don't know for other method.

I think you can report this a bug on opencv dev zone

LBerger gravatar imageLBerger ( 2015-06-27 16:35:38 -0600 )edit

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