edges op• Data kinds: image → image
• Call: fullseye.apply(img, "robinson_dir", a=0.5, b=0.5) (the 2-D model is one image plus two scalar knobs a,b∈[0,1])
• HALCON equivalent: robinson_dir (the HALCON reference is a useful guide to its meaning and parameters)
*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):
▸ robinson_dir: 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).*
An edge-direction map using the Robinson compass operator. Selects the maximum convolution response among 8 directions (a total of 8 kernels, `_ROBINSON[0]/_ROBINSON[1]` each rotated by 45 degrees), and returns that kernel's index normalized to 0-1. a and b are unused.
> The detailed description below is the original text — the summary and the headings are translated.
`frei_dir/sobel_dir が arctan2 による連続角度なのに対し、こちらは 8 方向のうち最も強く反応したカーネルの**インデックス**を返す離散近似である点に注意（8 段階の量子化角度）。HALCON の robinson_dir（Robinson 演算子でエッジの振幅と方向を検出する演算）の方向成分に相当。振幅は robinson_amp` が担当する。
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.
• gallery2d_edges family guide
• 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.
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.
robinson_dir 0.40 0.50
▸ Load this pipeline · Load & run
• gallery2d_edges — py -3.11 examples/gallery2d_edges.py
image as input)identity · gaussian · mean_box · bilateral · unsharp · median · min_filter · max_filter
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.