Hello Video!
PIXELS! Raw image processing power!
I guess its not that dramatic… but it is nice to finally be manipulating images (video) at the pixel level after doing it at the meta (Photoshop) level for so long. This, being my first foray into image processing, was an interesting and somewhat humbling one. Interesting because the results of messing around with numbers always seem to have surprising results, and humbling because I found out I lost much of my math knowledge… knowledge I need to do some higher-end processing. Ho-hum.
I’m sure I will get there though, I am in a image processing class after all.
This is what this code does to the video in ‘real time’:
1. turns the image to grayscale
2. if a pixel is brighter than the ‘average pixel’ in the image, it gets ‘blown out’ to white
3. horizontal lines are created by averaging groups of 24 pixels