rft_generic — 2D frequency op

Data kinds: imageimage

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

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

rft_generic: 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.*

*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):

rft_generic: 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

A stand-in for the real Fourier transform (real FFT, RFFT). The implementation computes an ordinary complex FFT and returns the absolute value of the real part, `|Re F|`, normalized by its maximum -- it is not the half-size, real-only fast transform (data reduction exploiting symmetry) that HALCON's rft_generic actually computes. a and b are unused.

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

HALCON の `rft_generic`(画像の実数値高速フーリエ変換を計算する演算)に相当する近似 —— 出力される値の意味(実部の大きさの分布)は近いが、アルゴリズムそのものは異なる。

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.

rft_generic 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_real · power_byte · phase_rad · highpass_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.