canny — 2D segmentation op

Data kinds: imageregion

Call: fullseye.apply(img, "canny", a=0.5, b=0.5) (the 2-D model is one image plus two scalar knobs a,b∈[0,1])

HALCON equivalent: edges_image (the HALCON reference is a useful guide to its meaning and parameters)

canny: input → output

*The figure is the actual output on a synthetic 128×128 input. Left: input, right: output. Point clouds are drawn as a top-down scatter (brightness = z), 1-D series as a line plot, volumes as the maximum-intensity projection along z, videos as the middle frame, complex images as magnitude; return values that are not pictures are shown as the values themselves.*

Sweeping knob a (0.1 / 0.5 / 0.9, the other knob at its default):

canny: knob a sweep (docs site)

Sweeping knob b (0.1 / 0.5 / 0.9, the other knob at its default):

canny: knob b sweep (docs site)

On other images (synthetic scene / photo / coins. Top row: inputs, bottom row: their outputs. Knobs at default):

canny: other inputs (docs site)

*The 4th column is a colour (H,W,3) input. This op handles colour without crossing channels (it does not convolve the colour channel as a third spatial axis).*

Usage

Simplified Canny-style edge detection (returns a region). Mapped to HALCON's `edges_image` (Extract edges using Deriche, Lanser, Shen, or Canny filters.), but this is a simplified version (an approximation) that does not perform non-maximum suppression or hysteresis thresholding.

> The detailed description below is the original text — the summary and the headings are translated.

`a が事前平滑化のガウシアン σ を 0.5〜2.0 に、b がしきい値を 0.1〜0.6 に振る。ガウシアンでぼかした画像に Sobel 勾配強度を掛け、正規化した値を b` で二値化するだけ——本家 Canny の細線化(1画素幅への収束)は無いため、エッジは本来の Canny より太く、複数画素にまたがって残る。

Blank frame (measured): feeding an image of uniform brightness gives an empty result — every pixel is background (0) — regardless of the brightness. Pure white and pure black behave alike; brightness by itself detects nothing.

Detailed usage guide

gallery2d_segmentation family guide

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Try it in Studio

The program below has been verified to run (same input as the figure). In Studio's help this block becomes buttons that load and run it on the spot.

canny 0.50 0.50

▸ Load this pipeline  ·  Load & run

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

gallery2d_segmentationpy -3.11 examples/gallery2d_segmentation.py

poc_real_coin_metrologypy -3.11 examples/poc_real_coin_metrology.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept region as input)

identity · reg_erode · reg_dilate · reg_open · reg_close · fill_holes · select_largest · remove_small

Same category (segmentation)

threshold · otsu · adaptive_gauss_thresh · sk_otsu · sk_li · sk_yen · sk_sauvola · sk_niblack


*Provenance: ops.py — 2D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

© 2026 Kazufumi Furuse — Fullseye operator documentation. Licensed under Apache-2.0.