Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives Developer Reference

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  • 03/26/2021
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Overview of Interpolation Modes

In geometric transformations, the grid of input image pixels is not necessarily mapped onto the grid of pixels in the output image. Therefore, to compute the pixel intensities in the output image, the geometric transform functions need to interpolate the intensity values of several input pixels that are mapped to a certain neighborhood of the output pixel.
Geometric transformations can use various interpolation algorithms. The library supports the following interpolation modes depending on how the type of interpolation algorithm is specified:
  • Type 1:
     Application code specifies the interpolation mode by passing the
    interpolation
     parameter of
    int
     type to a processing function. The following interpolation modes are supported:
    • Nearest neighbor interpolation (
      interpolation
       =
      IPPI_INTER_NN
      )
    • Linear interpolation (
      interpolation
       =
      IPPI_INTER_LINEAR
      )
    • Cubic interpolation (
      interpolation
       =
      IPPI_INTER_CUBIC
      )
    • Interpolation with Lanczos window function (
      interpolation
       =
      IPPI_INTER_LANCZOS
      )
    • Interpolation with two-parameter cubic filters with the fixed coefficients (
      interpolation
       can be set to the following:
      • IPPI_INTER_CUBIC2P_BSPLINE
         (
        B
        =1;
        C
        =0)
      • IPPI_INTER_CUBIC2P_CATMULLROM
         (
        B
        =0;
        C
        =0.5)
      • IPPI_INTER_CUBIC2P_ B05C03
         (
        B
        =0.5;
        C
        =0.3)
  • Type 2:
     Interpolation mode is specified explicitly in a function name suffix:
    • Nearest neighbor interpolation (pass
      interpolation
       =
      ippNearest
       to
      GetSize
       functions, use the functions with the
      Nearest
       suffix, for example,
      ResizeNearestInit
       or
      ResizeNearest
      )
    • Linear interpolation (pass
      interpolation
       =
      ippLinear
       to
      GetSize
       functions, use the functions with the
      Linear
       suffix, for example,
      ResizeLinearInit
       or
      ResizeLinear
      )
    • Interpolation with two-parameter cubic filters (pass
      interpolation
       =
      ippCubic
       to
      GetSize
       functions, use the functions with the
      Cubic
       suffix, for example,
      ResizeCubicInit
       or
      ResizeCubic
      )
    • Supersampling (pass
      interpolation
       =
      ippSuper
       to
      GetSize
       functions, use the functions with the
      Super
       suffix, for example,
      ResizeSuperInit
       or
      ResizeSuper
      )
    • Interpolation with Lanczos window function (pass
      interpolation
       =
      ippLanczos
       to
      GetSize
       functions, use the functions with the
      Lanczos
       suffix, for example,
      ResizeLanczosInit
       or
      ResizeLanczos
      )
For certain functions of type 1, the specified interpolation modes can be combined with additional
smoothing of edges
 to which the borders of the original image are transformed. To use this option, for the
interpolation
 parameter, specify the edge smoothing flag and the desired interpolation mode using the bitwise
OR
 operation. For example, in order to rotate an image with cubic interpolation and smooth the rotated image edges, pass the following value to
ippiRotate()
:
interpolation
 = IPPI_INTER_CUBIC | IPPI_SMOOTH_EDGE
.
To enable edge smoothing for functions of type 2, pass the special flag to the
Init
 function (if it exists), for example, you can pass this flag to
Init
 functions for
WarpAffine
 and
WarpPerspective
 function groups.
Interpolation with edge smoothing option can be used only in those geometric transform functions where this option is explicitly listed in the parameters definition section.
Table 
Interpolation Modes Supported by Image Geometric Transform Functions
 lists the supported interpolation modes for the main geometric transform functions that use interpolation.
Interpolation Modes Supported by Image Geometric Transform Functions
Function Base Name
NN
Lin
Cub2P
Cub
CR
La2
La3
SS
AA
ES
x
x *)
x
x
x
x
x
x
x *)
x
x
x
x *)
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
n/a
n/a
x
x
x
x
n/a
n/a
x
x
x
x
n/a
n/a
x
x
x
n/a
n/a
x
*) The function
ippiResizeCubic
 supports the interpolation with two-parameter cubic filters, where parameters B and C can be specified explicitly.
Here
NN
 - nearest neighbor interpolation,
Lin
 - linear interpolation,
Cub2P
 - interpolation with two-parameter cubic filters,
Cub
 - cubic interpolation,
CR
 - Catmull-Rom spline,
La2, La3
 - interpolation with the Lanczos window,
SS
 - super sampling interpolation,
AA
 - antialiasing,
ES
 - edge smoothing.
The sections that follow provide more details on each interpolation mode.

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