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General examples
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General-purpose and introductory examples for scikit-image.

The `narrative documentation <../user_guide.html>`_ introduces
conventions and basic image manipulations.



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Manipulating exposure and color channels
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Color deconvolution consists of the separation of features by their colors.">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/color_exposure/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_ihc_color_separation_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_color_exposure_plot_ihc_color_separation.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/color_exposure/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_adapt_rgb_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_color_exposure_plot_adapt_rgb.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Here, we use morphological reconstruction to create a background image, which we can subtract f...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/color_exposure/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_regional_maxima_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_color_exposure_plot_regional_maxima.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This examples enhances an image with low contrast, using a method called *local histogram equal...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/color_exposure/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_local_equalize_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_color_exposure_plot_local_equalize.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example adjusts image contrast by performing a Gamma and a Logarithmic correction on the i...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/color_exposure/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_log_gamma_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_color_exposure_plot_log_gamma.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/color_exposure/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_equalize_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_color_exposure_plot_equalize.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="It can be useful to artificially tint an image with some color, either to highlight particular ...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/color_exposure/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_tinting_grayscale_images_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_color_exposure_plot_tinting_grayscale_images.py`

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Edges and lines
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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_contours_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_contours.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_convex_hull_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_convex_hull.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The Canny filter is a multi-stage edge detector. It uses a filter based on the derivative of a ...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_canny_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_canny.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Marching cubes is an algorithm to extract a 2D surface mesh from a 3D volume. This can be conce...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_marching_cubes_thumb.png

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The active contour model is a method to fit open or closed splines to lines or edges in an imag...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_active_contours_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_active_contours.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_edge_filter_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_edge_filter.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to draw several different shapes:">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_shapes_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_shapes.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_random_shapes_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_random_shapes.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The Hough transform in its simplest form is a method to detect straight lines [1]_.">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_line_hough_transform_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_line_hough_transform.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_polygon_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_polygon.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The Hough transform in its simplest form is a `method to detect straight lines &lt;http://en.wikip...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_circular_elliptical_hough_transform_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_circular_elliptical_hough_transform.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/edges/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_skeleton_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_edges_plot_skeleton.py`

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Detection of features and objects
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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_daisy_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_features_detection_plot_daisy.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) feature descriptor is popular for object detection [1]...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_hog_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_features_detection_plot_hog.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_corner_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_features_detection_plot_corner.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="We use template matching to identify the occurrence of an image patch (in this case, a sub-imag...">

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        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_features_detection_plot_template.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="We fill holes (i.e. isolated, dark spots) in an image using morphological reconstruction by ero...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_holes_and_peaks_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_features_detection_plot_holes_and_peaks.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The CENSURE feature detector is a scale-invariant center-surround detector (CENSURE) that claim...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_censure_thumb.png

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to compute multi-block local binary pattern (MB-LBP) features as well as...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_multiblock_local_binary_pattern_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_features_detection_plot_multiblock_local_binary_pattern.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Haar-like features are simple digital image features that were introduced in a real-time face d...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_haar_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_features_detection_plot_haar.py`

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_blob_thumb.png

        :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_features_detection_plot_blob.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example demonstrates the ORB feature detection and binary description algorithm. It uses a...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_orb_thumb.png

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example demonstrates the BRIEF binary description algorithm. The descriptor consists of re...">

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_gabors_from_astronaut_thumb.png

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_glcm_thumb.png

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    .. figure:: /auto_examples/features_detection/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_windowed_histogram_thumb.png

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Filtering and restoration
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Operations on NumPy arrays
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Segmentation of objects
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Geometrical transformations and registration
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Longer examples and demonstrations
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