sk_area_opening — 2D morphology op

Data kinds: imageimage

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

sk_area_opening: 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):

sk_area_opening: 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):

sk_area_opening: 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

Area opening. Whereas ordinary morphological opening removes small bright regions based on the shape of the structuring element, this judges by area alone (number of connected pixels) and removes bright connected components smaller than a specified area -- letting you drop "small" things regardless of shape.

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

HALCON に直接対応するものは無い。実装は `morphology.area_opening(v, area_threshold=int(16+a*100))` —— a は面積しきい値を 16〜116 画素に振る。b は未使用。connectivity は既定の 1(4 近傍)のまま。

Border handling: treat everything outside the image as background (0) (measured; tools/impl2/border_probe.py).

Detailed usage guide

gallery2d_morphology 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.

sk_area_opening 0.35 0.50

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Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

gallery2d_morphologypy -3.11 examples/gallery2d_morphology.py

poc_bone_trabecular_thicknesspy -3.11 examples/poc_bone_trabecular_thickness.py

poc_fresco_craquelurepy -3.11 examples/poc_fresco_craquelure.py

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

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

Same category (morphology)

gerode · gdilate · gopen · gclose · runlength_smear · tophat · bothat · morph_grad


*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.