Write pixel data in a grayscale image in java - java

I am developing a project on image processing where I have to fill the digitized images of cracked paintings. I have to convert a color image to grayscale, performing some calculations on the 2D Array of the gray image and writing it back as gray image. The code for this is:
BufferedImage colorImage=ImageIO.read(new File(strImagePath));
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(colorImage.getWidth(),colorImage.getHeight(),BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY);
Graphics g = image.getGraphics();
g.drawImage(colorImage, 0, 0, null);
g.dispose();
ImageIO.write(image,"PNG",new File("Image.PNG"));
BufferedImage imgOriginal=ImageIO.read(new File("Image.PNG"));
int width=image.getWidth();
int height=image.getHeight();
BufferedImage im=new BufferedImage(width,height,BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY);
int arrOriginal[][]=new int[height][width];
for(int i=0;i<height;i++)
for(int j=0;j<width;j++)
arrOriginal[i][j]=imgOriginal.getRGB(j,i)& 0xFF;
for(int i=0;i<height;i++)
for(int j=0;j<width;j++)
im.setRGB(j,i,arrOriginal[i][j]);
ImageIO.write(im,"PNG",new File("Image1.PNG"));
But the output image is very much darker, I am not getting the original image back (I have not done any changes yet).
I think there should be some changes in setRGB() statement but I don't know what.
To write image back, I have also tried:
`
BufferedImage im = new BufferedImage(width,height,BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY);
WritableRaster raster = im.getRaster();
for(int i=0;i<height;i++)
for(int j=0;j<width;j++)
raster.setSample(j,i,0,arrOriginal[i][j]);
`
But it also don't give me original image back.
Can anyone provide me the solution of this problem?
Thanks in advance.

I don't know anything about Java-based image processing, but I do know quite a lot about image processing in general, so I will see if I can give you any ideas. Please don't shoot me if I am wrong - I am just suggesting an idea.
In a greyscale image, the red, green and blue values are all the same, i.e. Red=Green=Blue. So, when you call getRGB and do the AND with 0xff, you are probably getting the blue component only, but that is ok as the red and green are the same - because it's greyscale.
I suspect the problem is that when you write it back to create your new output image, you are only setting the blue component and not the red and green - which should still be the same. Try writing back
original pixel + (original pixel << 8 ) + (original pixel <<16)
so that you set not only the Blue, but also the Red and Green components.

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background of an image not fully accurate around text

I have an issue where I have an image with a fully black background that I have added text to.
the program works well except that the background close, around the text, isn't fully black.
the program I'm trying to do takes a picture and areas where the pixels are bright add characters such as "#" and dark areas are filled with " "(space) or ".".
my current code is:
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("Person.jpg"));
Graphics g = image.getGraphics();
g.setFont(new Font("Times New Roman", Font.PLAIN,10));
Color backGround = new Color(0,0,0);
int bg = backGround.getRGB();
int pixelSize = 10;
for(int i = 0; i < image.getWidth()-pixelSize;i+=pixelSize){
for(int j =0; j <image.getHeight()-pixelSize;j+=pixelSize){
Color color = grayScale(image, i,j, pixelSize); /*grayScale() take the area...
of wanted pixel size and takes the average color and then grayscale it. */
for(int x = 0; x < pixelSize; x++){
for(int y = 0; y < pixelSize; y++){
image.setRGB(x+i,y+j, bg);
}
}
g.setColor(new Color(255,255,255));
g.drawString(acill(color), i, j); /* acill() maps the brightness of the pixel...
to a string of characters ex: string c = " .:!#" if the pixel i bright (255,255,255)
then the function returns "#". */
}
}
g.dispose();
ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", new File("Person1.jpg"));
}
}
managed to solve it by changing the picture file from jpg to png. I do not know what causes this but at least it works. If anyone knows why I'd be happy to know.
The noise you see in your image is fully expected, and is an artifact of lossy JPEG compression. You may get rid of some of it, by increasing the JPEG quality setting, at the expense of a larger file. But using lossy JPEG will always cause some such noise, and will never be able to exactly retain the information in your original image (thus "lossy"). JPEG is also created to compress "natural images" efficiently, and is not very good at compression "artificial" images like this.
As your image is black and white (bitonal) only, it is probably much better to use a lossless file format that natively supports bitonal images, like PNG, TIFF with "fax" compression, even BMP. For your image, these are likely to compress the data better than JPEG anyway. You could also use JBIG, which is a lossy format created for bitonal images, but only if you can accept the fact that it may not exactly retain your image.

OpenCV-removing noise from image

I'm working on a java image processing program(based on OpenCV library).
I need to remove the noise from the first image to get a clean image like the second image below.
In this specific case, what are the best ways to remove noise?
The most important part is how to remove the black parts that surround the image.
First image:
Second image:
get rid of gray: threshold the image so that any gray becomes white
get rid of border: floodfill at location (0.0) with white
That will leave just a few remaining issues to clean up: detect each black blob in the image, if the area of a blob is less than some amount floodfill the blob with white. One way to implement that follows.
Note that floodfill returns the number of pixels it filled. This allows you to scan for a black pixel, when you find one fill with gray. If the filled are is too small, fill again with white to erase the blob and then keep scanning, otherwise leave the blob as gray and keep scanning for black. At the end everything you want will be gray, so scan the image again and whenever you find gray flood fill with black.
Following program may be helpful to solve your problem,
This program thresholds the input image and selects only connected
components with particular size
#include <iostream>
#include<cv.h>
#include<highgui.h>
using namespace std;
using namespace cv;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
IplImage *img1 = cvLoadImage(argv[1] , 0);
IplImage *img3 = cvLoadImage(argv[1]);
IplImage *img2 = cvCloneImage(img1);
cvNamedWindow("Orig");
cvShowImage("Orig",img1);
cvWaitKey(0);
cvAdaptiveThreshold(img1, img1, 255, CV_ADAPTIVE_THRESH_GAUSSIAN_C,
CV_THRESH_BINARY_INV, 15);
cvNamedWindow("Thre");
cvShowImage("Thre",img1);
cvWaitKey(0);
IplImage *tempImg = cvCloneImage(img1);
CvMemStorage *storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
CvSeq *contour = NULL;
cvFindContours(tempImg, storage, &contour, sizeof(CvContour),
CV_RETR_CCOMP, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE);
for (; contour != 0; contour = contour->h_next)
{
CvRect r = cvBoundingRect(contour);
int area = r.width * r.height;
if (area < 50 || area > 500) continue;
cvRectangle(img3, cvPoint(r.x, r.y), cvPoint(r.x + r.width, r.y + r.height),
CV_RGB(255, 0, 0), 1);
}
cvNamedWindow("D");
cvShowImage("D",img3);
cvWaitKey(0);
}

Android Bitmap: Convert transparent pixels to a color

I have an Android app that loads an image as a bitmap and displays it in an ImageView. The problem is that the image appears to have a transparent background; this causes some of the black text on the image to disappear against the black background.
If I set the ImageView background to white, that sort of works, but I get ugly big borders on the image where it is stretched to fit the parent (the actual image is scaled in the middle).
So - I want to convert the transparent pixels in the Bitmap to a solid colour - but I cannot figure out how to do it!
Any help would be appreciate!
Thanks
Chris
If you are including the image as a resource, it is easiest to just edit the image yourself in a program like gimp. You can add your background there, and be sure of what it is going to look like and don't have use to processing power modifying the image each time it is loaded.
If you do not have control over the image yourself, you can modify it by doing something like, assuming your Bitmap is called image.
Bitmap imageWithBG = Bitmap.createBitmap(image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(),image.getConfig()); // Create another image the same size
imageWithBG.eraseColor(Color.WHITE); // set its background to white, or whatever color you want
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(imageWithBG); // create a canvas to draw on the new image
canvas.drawBitmap(image, 0f, 0f, null); // draw old image on the background
image.recycle(); // clear out old image
You can loop through each pixel and check if it is transparent.
Something like this. (Untested)
Bitmap b = ...;
for(int x = 0; x<b.getWidth(); x++){
for(int y = 0; y<b.getHeight(); y++){
if(b.getPixel(x, y) == Color.TRANSPARENT){
b.setPixel(x, y, Color.WHITE);
}
}
}

Can I save a huge PNG without the whole thing being in memory?

I'm saving a very large PNG (25 MB or so) with Java. The problem is that while it's being generated, it's using 3+ gigabytes of memory, which is not ideal since it severely slows down systems with low memory.
The code I'm working with needs to combine a set of tiled images into a single image; in other words, I have nine images (PNG):
A1 A2 A3
B1 B2 B3
C1 C2 C3
which need to be combined into a single image.
The code I'm using is this:
image = new BufferedImage(width, height, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB_PRE);
g2d = image.createGraphics();
g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BICUBIC);
// draw the 9 images on here at their proper positions...
// save image
g2d.dispose();
File file = getOutputFile();
ImageIO.write(image, "png", file);
Is there a way to make and save an image without having the entire image in memory?
Edit:
To draw the images, I'm doing this in a loop:
BufferedImage tile = ImageIO.read(new File("file.png"));
g2d.drawImage(tile, x, y, w, h);
This is being repeated many times (it's usually about 25x25, but sometimes more), so if there is even a small memory leak here, that could be causing the problem.
You can also take a look at this PNGJ library (disclaimer: I coded it), it allows to save a PNG image line by line.
ImageIO.write(image, "png", file); is internally using com.sun.imageio.plugins.png.PNGImageWriter. That method and that writer expect image to be a rendered image but PNG writting is done by 'bands' so you can make a subclass of RenderedImage that generates the requested bands of the composed large image as the writer ask for that bands to the image.
From PNGImageWriter class:
private void encodePass(ImageOutputStream os,
RenderedImage image,
int xOffset, int yOffset,
int xSkip, int ySkip) throws IOException {
// (...)
for (int row = minY + yOffset; row < minY + height; row += ySkip) {
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(minX, row, width, 1); // <--- *1
Raster ras = image.getData(rect); // <--- *2
*2 I think this is the only place where the writer reads pixels from you image. You should make a getData(rect) method that computes that rect joining 3 bands from 3 images into one.
*1 As you see it reads bands with a height of 1 pixel.
If the things are as I think you should only need to compose 3 images at a time. There would be no need for the other 6 to be in memory.
I know it is not an easy solution but it might help you if you don't find anything easier.
Would using an external tool be an option? I remember using ImageMagick for similar purpose, you would need to save your smaller images first.

BufferedImage colour change

I have working on an application which captures screen shots and create video from captured images. But the problem is that when video is generated, colours in generated video is very pinkish. I think this is because I am manipulating captured images to show cursor using BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR type. Could someone tell me how to resolve this issue, I want to have the colour of video same as actual colour of screen.
For capturing screen image I am doing as follows:
Robot robot = new Robot();
Rectangle captureSize = new Rectangle(screenBounds);
return robot.createScreenCapture(captureSize);
For manipulating images I am doing as follows:
image = new BufferedImage(sourceImage.getWidth(), sourceImage.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR);
if (true) {
int x = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation().x - 25;
int y = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation().y - 37;
Graphics2D graphics2D = sourceImage.createGraphics();`enter code here`
graphics2D.drawImage(SimpleWebBrowserExample.m_MouseIcon, x, y, 48, 48, null);
}
image.getGraphics().drawImage(sourceImage, 0, 0, null);
return image;
please tell me how to get the images with colour same as actual colour on screen.
Thanks.
Use BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB or BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB, as shown in this example. If you need to change the colors, you can use a LookupOp with a four-component LookupTable that adjusts the alpha component as required for BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR: "When data with non-opaque alpha is stored in an image of this type, the color data must be adjusted to a non-premultiplied form and the alpha discarded." Examples may be found in Using the Java 2D LookupOp Filter Class to Process Images and Image processing with Java 2D.
See the the "pinkish" explanation here
Basically the image is saved as a ARGB and most viewers interpret it as a CMYK. Alpha is preserved when opening it back in Java, though.

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