Adept AdeptSight User Guide - Manual (Page 429)

1. In the Image Processing Tool interface, expand the Advanced Param-
eters list.
2. Under Configuration, select the Operation parameter.
3. In the right-hand column, select: hsCustomFilter. This enables the tool
to apply a the custom filter you will create in the next steps. Next you
must create the custom filter.
4. Under Filtering, select the FilteringCustomKernel parameter.
5. In right-hand column click the Browse (...) icon. This opens the Custom
Filter Properties dialog, as shown in the preceding figure.
In the Dimensions box, enter values for Width and Height of the kernel.
Grid boxes in white indicate kernel elements.
6. Enter the required in the value in each box of the kernel grid.
7. In the Anchor box, enter the X and Y positions of the kernel anchor, with
respect to the defined kernel. The box indicating the anchor position in
identified by a different color.
Average Filter
The Average operation sets each pixel in the output image as the average of all the input
image pixels in the neighborhood defined by the selected kernel size. This has the effect of
blurring the image, especially edges.
The average filters are designed to remove noise. The kernel size can be 3, 5 or 7. The kernels
used by the Image Processing Tool are shown in the following figure.
Average Filtering Kernels
Filtering Operations
AdeptSight User's Guide, Version 3.2.x, Updated: 8/23/2012
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