Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of ExpExchHelp
ExpExchHelpFlag for United States of America

asked on

Need to "clean up" CPP file

Hello Experts,

this may be one of "those" strange questions again.     I've been taking a (beginner) C++ class for the for the past 4 months.  

My first homework assignment (Histogram Equalization) ended up to be a decent grade.   However, the program wasn't very efficient and "clean".   Too much "passing one value to another".

I now have the need to re-use the structure of my 1st program for my final assignment.   When looking at the file, there's a bunch of "stuff" in there that could be streamlined.   There's some stuff in there that I can't make sense of any longer (I know, I know.... if I can't make sense of you, how could you.... -- still an experienced programmer may understand what's going on).

I've posted the "framework" CPP at the following location:
https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/ee-stuff/5913-NeedCleanCPP.zip 

All UNNESSARY STUFF should be removed.   The only thing that I need to do is processing an image file and created a 2nd image with "histogram equalizaiton".    I've removed all non-pertaining stuff from the file already (incl. declarations).   So, it pretty much leaves only the functions.  

Once that's done I insert the "read file" and "output file" later on.   I just wanted it out of the way for right now.

Again, this may be one of those "weird questions" again.    Any help would be greatly appreciated so that I can begin working on my final project, using the streamlined CPP as my foundation.

Thanks,
EEH

Avatar of Kent Olsen
Kent Olsen
Flag of United States of America image

Hi ExpExchHelp,

I tried to follow your link, but it asked me to sign in with my EE account and password.  Odd, since I'm already signed in to EE.

Then I did an nslookup on www.ee-stuff.com and https://www.experts-exchange.com

They aren't even in the same class A network.  206.171.169.10  &  64.156.132.140  



I'd love to help, but until someone I know verifies that this is an EE related site, I'm not willing to enter my ID and password there.

Kent
Hi jkr,

Thanks.  :)


Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get me.  
Kent
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of Kent Olsen
Kent Olsen
Flag of United States of America image

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
Avatar of ExpExchHelp

ASKER

Kent,

thank you for your help.   While I truly appreciate your feedback, I need some concrete help with the code listed below.

The code (again, I removed all declarions... otherwise it would have been too lengthy) covers two functions:
1. Histogram equalization
2. Autolevels

My goal is the following:
- I want to remove as much code as possible so that only one image enhancement method works (it'll serve as a baseline for another project then)

- right now, I have way to much "going-back-and-forth" code (e.g. "x=y; y=z; z=a") code in there.   It would be very hard for me to implement the new program into it

- so, if e.g. "cnt[4], cnt[5] (or whatever they may be) could be removed/merged, that would be extremely helpful.

Thank you,
EEH
// *** GENERAL CODE
// ===================================================
 
	// Allocate this many number of bytes to the image.
	totalPixels = numberOfRows*numberOfColumns*numberOfBands;
 
	// Reads from the specified pointer; 1 byte, # of pixels, and file pointer
	image = (unsigned char *) malloc(totalPixels);
	l = fread(image,1,totalPixels,fpIn);
	fprintf(stderr,"fread returned %d bytes\n", l);
 
 
 
 
 
 
// *** BEGIN OF HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION AND AUTO LEVELS
// ===================================================
 
 
 
    // NEED THIS CODE
	// Generate histogram from input file to produce histogram
	for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
		cnt1[i] = 0;
	}
 
	for (i=0; i < totalPixels; i++) {
		l = image[i];
		(cnt1[l])++;
	}
 
 
 
 
    // NEED THIS CODE
	// Determine maximum g value
	for (i=0;i<256;i++) {
		if(cnt1[i]>maximum) {
			maximum=cnt1[i];
		}
	}
 
 
	// NEED THIS CODE
	// Resizes the graphic to fit to an optimal scale
	scalefactor=256.0/maximum;
	for(i=0;i<256;i++) {
		cnt2[i]=scalefactor*cnt1[i];
	}
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    // ?????
	// Get the denominator for obtaining probabilies
	int denominator=0;
	for(int cntr=0; cntr < 256; cntr++)
	{
		denominator += cnt2[cntr];
	}
 
 
 
	// ?????
	// Store the values from cnt2 into cnt3.  These are adjusted by dividing by the denominator.
	// Declare variables.
	float cnt3[256];
	float numval = 0;
	float numval2 = 0;
 
 
	// ?????
	// numval2 is used to convert the int value to a float value
	// numval is used to store the values of numval2 divided by the denominator (probability)
	// Probabilities array is: cnt3
 
	for(int cntr=0; cntr <256; cntr++)
	{
		numval2 = cnt2[cntr];
		numval = (numval2 / denominator);
		cnt3[cntr] = numval;
	}
 
                 
 
    // ?????
	// Histogram equalization (HE) section:
	// ====================================
	// We need to obtain an array for the CDF values.  The total sum must be equal to 1.
	// cnt3 contains probability values.
	// cnt4 will be created.  It equals the sum of the cnt3 values.
	// tempStorage was created in previous assigment (#1).
 
	float cnt4[256];
	float tempStorage2 = cnt3[0];
	cnt4[0] = tempStorage2;
	for(int i =1; i<256;i++)
		{
			tempStorage2 = cnt3[i];
			tempStorage2 += cnt4[i-1];
			cnt4[i] = tempStorage2;
 
		}
 
 
    // ?????
	// Each element in the CDF array must be multiplied by 255.
	// In then is converted into an integer (no rouding function).
	// Achieved by storing the cnt4 float value into the cnt5 array.
 
	int cnt5[256];
 
	for(int i = 0; i<256;i++)
	{
		tempStorage2 = cnt4[i];
		tempStorage2 *= 255;
		cnt5[i] = tempStorage2;
	}
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
	// NEED THIS CODE
	// Sets HE_image to take on the data and size of equalized image.
	HE_image = (unsigned char *)malloc(totalPixels);
 
	// HE conversion routine to modify the image by cnt5 and output it into HE_image.
	for (i=0; i<totalPixels; i++)
	{
		HE_image[i]=cnt5[image[i]];
	}
 
 
 
 
// *** OUTPUT SECTION CODE
// =======================
 
 
	// User feedback
	fprintf(stdout,"\n\n\n\nThe modified image (Gamma Transform) has been generated.\n\n\n\n");
 
	//  Statements open up two files specified by argv[2].
	fpHE_image = fopen(argv[2],"wb");
 
	// Prints and writes the images HE image..
	fprintf(fpHE_image,"P5\n%d %d\n255\n", numberOfColumns, numberOfRows);
	fwrite(HE_image,totalPixels,1,fpHE_image);

Open in new window