Adaptive Threshold CIKernel/CIFilter iOS

Question

I have researched all over in order to find a kernel that performs adaptive thresholding on iOS. Unfortunately I do not understand the kernel language or the logic behind it. Be

Answer 1

How does this look: I've used the CoreImage CIBoxBlur (although the dedicated convolution filters may be faster) and passed the output of that into my existing threshold filter.

class AdaptiveThresholdFilter: CIFilter
{
    var inputImage : CIImage?


    var thresholdKernel =  CIColorKernel(string:
    "kernel vec4 thresholdFilter(__sample image, __sample threshold)" +
    "{" +
    "   float imageLuma = dot(image.rgb, vec3(0.2126, 0.7152, 0.0722));" +
    "   float thresholdLuma = dot(threshold.rgb, vec3(0.2126, 0.7152, 0.0722));" +

    "   return vec4(vec3(step(imageLuma, thresholdLuma)), 1.0);" +
    "}"
    )


    override var outputImage: CIImage!
    {
        guard let inputImage = inputImage,
            thresholdKernel = thresholdKernel else
        {
            return nil
        }

        let blurred = inputImage.imageByApplyingFilter("CIBoxBlur",
               withInputParameters: [kCIInputRadiusKey: 9])

        let extent = inputImage.extent
        let arguments = [inputImage, blurred]

        return thresholdKernel.applyWithExtent(extent, arguments: arguments)
    }
}

I found this image of a shaded page and with this code:

let page = CIImage(image: UIImage(named: "son1.gif")!)

let filter = AdaptiveThresholdFilter()

filter.inputImage = page

let final = filter.outputImage

I got this result:

Cheers!

Simon