localCurvature {EBImage} | R Documentation

## Local Curvature

### Description

Computes signed curvature along a line.

### Usage

    localCurvature(x, h, maxk)

### Arguments

`x` | A data frame or matrix of dimensions N x 2 containing the coordinates of the line, where N is the number of points. The points should be ordered according to their position on the line. The columns should contain the x and y coordinates. The curvature calculation is unaffected by any permutation of the columns. Directly accepts a list element from `ocontour`.
`h` | Specifies the length of the smoothing window. See `locfit::lp` for more details.
`maxk` | See `locfit::locfit.raw` for details.

### Details

`localCurvature` fits a local non-parametric smoothing line (polynomial of degree 2) at each point along the line segment, and computes the curvature locally using numerical derivatives.

### Value

Returns a `list` containing the contour coordinates `x`, the signed curvature at each point `curvature` and the arc length of the contour `length`.

### Author(s)

Joseph Barry, Wolfgang Huber, 2013

### See Also

`ocontour`

### Examples

      ## curvature goes as the inverse of the radius of a circle
      range=seq(3.5,33.5,by=2)
      plotRange=seq(0.5,33.5,length=100)
      circleRes=array(dim=length(range))
      names(circleRes)=range
      for (i in  seq_along(1:length(range))) {
       y=as.Image(makeBrush('disc', size=2*range[i]))
       y=ocontour(y)[[1]]
       circleRes[i]=abs(mean(localCurvature(x=y,h=range[i])$curvature, na.rm=TRUE))
      }
      plot(range, circleRes, ylim=c(0,max(circleRes, na.rm=TRUE)), xlab='Circle Radius', ylab='Curvature', type='p', xlim=range(plotRange))
      points(plotRange, 1/plotRange, type='l')

      ## Calculate curvature
      x = readImage(system.file("images", "shapes.png", package="EBImage"))[25:74, 60:109]
      x = resize(x, 200)
      y = gblur(x, 3) > .3
      display(y)

      contours = ocontour(bwlabel(y))
      c = localCurvature(x=contours[[1]], h=11)
      i = c$curvature >= 0
      pos = neg = array(0, dim(x))
      pos[c$contour[i,]+1]  = c$curvature[i]
      neg[c$contour[!i,]+1] = -c$curvature[!i]
      display(10*(rgbImage(pos, , neg)), title = "Image curvature")

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