power_real — 2D frequency op

Data kinds: imageimage

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

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

power_real: 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.*

*The output is shown in a viridis-like pseudo-colour (dark purple = low, yellow = high) so that a field of quantities — distance, phase, orientation, depth — can be read.*

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

*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):

power_real: other inputs (docs site)

*No colour (H,W,3) input is shown: this op treats the colour channel as a third spatial axis (it crosses channels). Call it per channel.*

Usage

An image obtained by normalizing the absolute value of the real part of the FFT, `|Re(F)| (unlike the logarithmic power spectrum of fft_image, this looks only at the real part without taking a logarithm). An approximation corresponding to HALCON's power_real` (Return the power spectrum of a complex image) -- HALCON's original definition is the power |F|^2, but here the absolute value of the real part is used as a substitute.

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

`a, b` は未使用。

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_texture_freq 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.

power_real 0.40 0.50

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Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

gallery2d_texture_freqpy -3.11 examples/gallery2d_texture_freq.py

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

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

Same category (frequency)

lowpass · highpass · sk_butterworth · fft_image · power_byte · phase_rad · highpass_image · bandpass_image


*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.