derivate_gauss — 2D edges op

Data kinds: imageimage

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

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

derivate_gauss: 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):

derivate_gauss: knob a sweep (docs site)

*Knob b does not change the output (measured: identical at 0.1 / 0.5 / 0.9).*

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

derivate_gauss: 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

The gradient magnitude (`hypot) of Gaussian derivatives (order=(1,0) and (0,1)), normalized to [0,1]. Because it differentiates after Gaussian smoothing, it acts as a noise-robust edge detector. Equivalent to HALCON's derivate_gauss` (Convolve an image with derivatives of the Gaussian.).

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

`a` がガウス核のシグマを 0.5〜3.0 の範囲で振る(平滑化の強さとエッジの

太さがトレードオフ)。`b` は未使用。方向別成分(dx, dy)ではなく振幅のみを

返す点に注意。

Border handling: mirror repeating the edge pixel (d c b a | a b c d — scipy's default `reflect) (measured; tools/impl2/border_probe.py`).

Value comparability (measured): the output is normalised by that image's own maximum (the output maximum is always 1.0, and scaling the input leaves the output unchanged). Values therefore cannot be compared across images — a feature of the same strength takes a different value depending on what the strongest feature in that image happens to be, and in an image holding only weak features the noise is lifted to 1.0. To compare across images, rescale by a common reference.

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_edges 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.

derivate_gauss 0.40 0.50

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Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

gallery2d_edgespy -3.11 examples/gallery2d_edges.py

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

identity · gaussian · mean_box · bilateral · unsharp · median · min_filter · max_filter

Same category (edges)

sobel_mag · prewitt_mag · roberts_mag · dog · edge_transition_width · grad_dir · log · corner_response


*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.