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imgevolve — operator research provenance

Seminal references for the 153 operators (families collapse many variants). The point: a designed pipeline is traceable to the literature, and the RAD image corpus is the mining source for new operators.

op	category	seminal reference
identity	misc	-
gaussian	smoothing	-
mean_box	smoothing	-
bilateral	smoothing	Tomasi & Manduchi (1998). Bilateral filtering for gray and color images. ICCV.
unsharp	smoothing	-
median	rank	Tukey, J. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis (running median smoothing).
min_filter	rank	-
max_filter	rank	-
percentile	rank	-
gerode	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
gdilate	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
gopen	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
gclose	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
tophat	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
bothat	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
morph_grad	morphology	-
sobel_mag	edges	Sobel & Feldman (1968). A 3x3 isotropic gradient operator for image processing.
laplace	edges	Marr & Hildreth (1980). Theory of edge detection. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.
prewitt_mag	edges	Prewitt, J. (1970). Object enhancement and extraction. Picture Processing and Psychopictorics.
roberts_mag	edges	-
dog	edges	Marr & Hildreth (1980). Theory of edge detection. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.
gamma	gray	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — intensity transformations.
invert	gray	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — intensity transformations.
scale_clip	gray	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — intensity transformations.
equalize	gray	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — intensity transformations.
sigmoid	gray	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — intensity transformations.
lowpass	frequency	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — frequency-domain filtering (Butterworth 1930).
highpass	frequency	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — frequency-domain filtering (Butterworth 1930).
std_filter	texture	-
threshold	segmentation	Sauvola & Pietikäinen (2000). Adaptive document image binarization. Pattern Recognition.
otsu	segmentation	Otsu, N. (1979). A threshold selection method from gray-level histograms. IEEE TSMC.
dyn_threshold	segmentation	Sauvola & Pietikäinen (2000). Adaptive document image binarization. Pattern Recognition.
reg_erode	region	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
reg_dilate	region	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
reg_open	region	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
reg_close	region	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
fill_holes	region	-
select_largest	region	Rosenfeld & Pfaltz (1966). Connected components labeling. JACM.
remove_small	region	Rosenfeld & Pfaltz (1966). Connected components labeling. JACM.
invert_region	region	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — intensity transformations.
blob_count	features	Rosenfeld & Pfaltz (1966). Connected components labeling. JACM.
area_frac	features	Rosenfeld & Pfaltz (1966). Connected components labeling. JACM.
grad_dir	edges	-
log	edges	Marr & Hildreth (1980). Theory of edge detection. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.
canny	segmentation	Canny, J. (1986). A computational approach to edge detection. IEEE TPAMI.
local_max	segmentation	-
dist_transform	region	Rosenfeld & Pfaltz (1966). Sequential operations in digital picture processing. JACM.
region_boundary	region	-
convex_fill	region	-
edges_sub_pix	contour	Steger, C. (1998). An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures (subpixel edges). IEEE TPAMI.
select_contours	contour	Steger, C. (1998). An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures (subpixel edges). IEEE TPAMI.
smooth_contours	contour	Steger, C. (1998). An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures (subpixel edges). IEEE TPAMI.
fit_line_contours	contour	Steger, C. (1998). An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures (subpixel edges). IEEE TPAMI.
contours_to_region	contour	Steger, C. (1998). An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures (subpixel edges). IEEE TPAMI.
count_contours	features	Steger, C. (1998). An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures (subpixel edges). IEEE TPAMI.
total_length	features	Steger, C. (1998). An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures (subpixel edges). IEEE TPAMI.
ncc_locate	matching	Lewis, J.P. (1995). Fast normalized cross-correlation. Vision Interface.
rotate_img	geometry	Wolberg, G. (1990). Digital Image Warping. IEEE CS Press.
rescale_img	geometry	Wolberg, G. (1990). Digital Image Warping. IEEE CS Press.
affine_warp	geometry	Wolberg, G. (1990). Digital Image Warping. IEEE CS Press.
gabor	texture	Daugman, J. (1985). Uncertainty relation for resolution… 2D visual cortical filters. JOSA A.
clahe	gray	Zuiderveld, K. (1994). Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization. Graphics Gems IV.
corner_response	edges	Harris & Stephens (1988). A combined corner and edge detector. Alvey Vision Conf.
adaptive_gauss_thresh	segmentation	Sauvola & Pietikäinen (2000). Adaptive document image binarization. Pattern Recognition.
shape_locate	matching	Steger, C. (2002). Occlusion-, clutter-, and illumination-invariant object recognition (shape-based matching).
classify_shape	classification	Danielsson, P.-E. (1978). A new shape factor (circularity). Computer Graphics and Image Processing.
decode_barcode	barcode	Wang & Srihari (1988). Object recognition in structured / barcode reading. (1D symbology).
vol_gaussian	3d	-
vol_median	3d	Tukey, J. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis (running median smoothing).
vol_erode	3d	-
vol_dilate	3d	-
vol_threshold	3d	Sauvola & Pietikäinen (2000). Adaptive document image binarization. Pattern Recognition.
vol_mip	3d	-
vol_slice	3d	-
vol_count	features	-
sk_scharr	edges	-
sk_farid	edges	-
sk_frangi	texture	Frangi et al. (1998). Multiscale vessel enhancement filtering. MICCAI.
sk_meijering	texture	Meijering et al. (2004). Design and validation of a tool for neurite tracing. Cytometry A.
sk_hessian	texture	-
sk_dog	edges	Marr & Hildreth (1980). Theory of edge detection. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.
sk_gabor	texture	Daugman, J. (1985). Uncertainty relation for resolution… 2D visual cortical filters. JOSA A.
sk_butterworth	frequency	Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing — frequency-domain filtering (Butterworth 1930).
sk_tv	smoothing	Rudin, Osher & Fatemi (1992). Nonlinear total variation based noise removal (ROF). Physica D.
sk_wavelet	smoothing	Donoho & Johnstone (1994). Ideal spatial adaptation by wavelet shrinkage. Biometrika.
sk_adapthist	gray	Zuiderveld, K. (1994). Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization. Graphics Gems IV.
sk_median_disk	rank	Tukey, J. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis (running median smoothing).
sk_otsu	segmentation	Otsu, N. (1979). A threshold selection method from gray-level histograms. IEEE TSMC.
sk_li	segmentation	Li & Lee (1993). Minimum cross entropy thresholding. Pattern Recognition.
sk_yen	segmentation	Yen, Chang & Chang (1995). A new criterion for automatic multilevel thresholding. IEEE TIP.
sk_sauvola	segmentation	Sauvola & Pietikäinen (2000). Adaptive document image binarization. Pattern Recognition.
sk_niblack	segmentation	Niblack, W. (1986). An Introduction to Digital Image Processing.
sk_canny	segmentation	Canny, J. (1986). A computational approach to edge detection. IEEE TPAMI.
sk_skeleton	region	Zhang & Suen (1984). A fast parallel algorithm for thinning digital patterns. CACM.
sk_medial	region	Blum, H. (1967). A transformation for extracting new descriptors of shape.
sk_convex	region	Blum, H. (1967). A transformation for extracting new descriptors of shape.
sk_thin	region	Zhang & Suen (1984). A fast parallel algorithm for thinning digital patterns. CACM.
sk_remove_holes	region	-
sk_euler	features	Rosenfeld & Pfaltz (1966). Connected components labeling. JACM.
sk_find_contours	contour	Steger, C. (1998). An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures (subpixel edges). IEEE TPAMI.
sk_lbp	texture	Ojala, Pietikainen & Maenpaa (2002). Multiresolution gray-scale… local binary patterns. IEEE TPAMI.
sk_entropy	texture	-
sk_enhance_contrast	gray	-
sk_autolevel	gray	-
sk_shape_index	texture	-
sk_hessian_det	edges	-
sk_corner_harris	edges	-
sk_adjust_log	gray	Marr & Hildreth (1980). Theory of edge detection. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.
sk_rolling_ball	smoothing	Sternberg (1983). Biomedical image processing (rolling ball background). IEEE Computer.
sk_nlm	smoothing	Buades, Coll & Morel (2005). A non-local algorithm for image denoising. CVPR.
sk_tv_bregman	smoothing	Rudin, Osher & Fatemi (1992). Nonlinear total variation based noise removal (ROF). Physica D.
sk_swirl	geometry	-
sk_area_opening	morphology	-
sk_felzenszwalb	segmentation	Felzenszwalb & Huttenlocher (2004). Efficient graph-based image segmentation. IJCV.
sk_slic	segmentation	Achanta et al. (2012). SLIC superpixels compared to state-of-the-art. IEEE TPAMI.
sk_chan_vese	segmentation	Chan & Vese (2001). Active contours without edges. IEEE TIP.
sk_local_maxima	segmentation	-
sk_hysteresis	segmentation	-
sk_clear_border	region	-
sk_find_boundaries	region	-
sk_entropy_feat	features	-
sk_blur_effect	features	-
cv_bilateral	smoothing	Tomasi & Manduchi (1998). Bilateral filtering for gray and color images. ICCV.
cv_median	rank	Tukey, J. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis (running median smoothing).
cv_box	smoothing	-
cv_gaussian	smoothing	-
cv_scharr	edges	-
cv_laplacian	edges	-
cv_clahe	gray	Zuiderveld, K. (1994). Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization. Graphics Gems IV.
cv_open	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
cv_close	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
cv_tophat	morphology	Serra, J. (1982). Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. (Matheron 1975).
cv_gradient	morphology	-
cv_otsu	segmentation	Otsu, N. (1979). A threshold selection method from gray-level histograms. IEEE TSMC.
cv_adaptive_mean	segmentation	Sauvola & Pietikäinen (2000). Adaptive document image binarization. Pattern Recognition.
cv_adaptive_gauss	segmentation	Sauvola & Pietikäinen (2000). Adaptive document image binarization. Pattern Recognition.
cv_canny	segmentation	Canny, J. (1986). A computational approach to edge detection. IEEE TPAMI.
cv_corner_harris	edges	-
cv_min_eigen	edges	-
cv_precorner	edges	-
cv_nlmeans	smoothing	Buades, Coll & Morel (2005). A non-local algorithm for image denoising. CVPR.
cv_blackhat	morphology	-
cv_erode	morphology	-
cv_dilate	morphology	-
cv_sharpen	smoothing	-
cv_trunc	gray	-
cv_dist	region	-
cv_cc_count	features	-
cv_hough_lines	features	Duda & Hart (1972). Use of the Hough transformation to detect lines and curves. CACM.
cv_hough_circles	features	Duda & Hart (1972). Use of the Hough transformation to detect lines and curves. CACM.
cv_good_features	features	-
dl_aniso_diffusion	smoothing	Perona & Malik (1990). Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion. IEEE TPAMI.
dl_guided_filter	smoothing	He, Sun & Tang (2010). Guided image filtering. ECCV.

Provenance coverage: 98/153 operators cite a seminal paper.

Mining new operators from research (RAD)

• RAD image / diffusion / deep_learning corpora (thousands of papers) = the source for operators beyond the classics: modern denoisers (BM3D, DnCNN), learned edges (HED), superpixels (SLIC), diffusion priors, foundation segmenters (SAM).
• Workflow: mine a paper -> add a typed Op (fn + sort + analogs + this reference) -> evolution/codegen/catalog pick it up automatically.

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