tb_local_std — 2D typed op

Data kinds: signalsignal

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

tb_local_std: 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):

tb_local_std: knob a sweep (docs site)

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

Stages (the ops that come before → this op, left to right):

tb_local_std: stages (docs site)

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

tb_local_std: other inputs (docs site)

Usage

Rolling standard deviation with a stated error bound.

The 1-D counterpart of the image operator `local_std` (HALCON's

`deviation_image`): the variance is taken after subtracting the mean

(`E[x^2] - E[x]^2` loses its significant digits on a signal that sits far

from zero), unbiased by `n/(n-1)`, and the residual bias of the square root

removed by `c4(n), so the estimate of sigma` itself is unbiased.

*window* is the number of samples in the sliding window, **rounded up to the

next odd number** so the window can be centred (10 becomes 11). The error

bound below is computed from the window actually used, so the number quoted

stays true. The 2-D side does the same thing — `_k(a)` snaps the knob to

3/5/7/9 — and the typed bridge that exposes this op as `tb_local_std`

scales the knob continuously, so an even value arrives whenever the knob

lands between two odd ones.

**The relative standard error of each estimate is `1/sqrt(2(n-1))`** —

35 % for a 5-sample window, 11 % for 41. Quote it next to any noise figure:

a rolling sigma over 9 samples is +- 25 %, which is wider than most of the

changes people try to read off it.

Returns an array the same length as *x* (the ends are reflected).

Typed bridge of the 1d op `local_std into the 2-D evolution registry: the same implementation, called under the op(v, a, b) convention. a drives window (default 9); b` is unused.

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.

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.

img_to_signal 0.50 0.50
tb_local_std 0.50 0.50

▸ Load this pipeline  ·  Load & run

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

The examples below call the underlying ledger op local_std. This bridge op is the same implementation adapted to the fn(v, a, b) convention, so the behaviour carries over unchanged (only the call form differs).

gallery2d_texture_freqpy -3.11 examples/gallery2d_texture_freq.py

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

identity · tb_create_funct_1d_array · tb_smooth_funct_1d_gauss · tb_smooth_funct_1d_mean · tb_derivate_funct_1d · tb_integrate_funct_1d · tb_zero_crossings_funct_1d · tb_abs_funct_1d

Same category (typed)

tb_points_to_voxel · tb_estimate_point_normals · tb_iss_keypoints · tb_project_points · tb_render_point_depth · tb_statistical_outlier_removal · tb_radius_outlier_removal · tb_voxel_grid_downsample


*Provenance: ops.py — 2D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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