cv::Mat_<bool>::depth() returns CV_Bool in 5.0 where it returned CV_8U in
4.x, so distanceTransform started rejecting boolean masks. CV_Bool is a
1-byte type whose values are only zero-tested here, so accept it wherever
a CV_8UC1 mask was previously accepted, matching the 4.x behaviour and the
4->5 migration guide.
Relaxes the type checks on all four reachable paths: the public wrapper,
distanceTransform_L1_8U, trueDistTrans (DIST_MASK_PRECISE) and
distanceATS_L1_8u (CV_8U output).
Closes#29596
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3rdparty(mlas): add missing power (ppc64le) kernel headers #29516
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Distransform function IPP migration to HAL in 4.x #29463
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Extracting IPP integaration as HAL for Canny #29434
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Merge pull request #29414 from Prasadayus:box_filter_refactor
Moving IPP functions to HAL for box_filter in Imgproc #29414
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Refactoring and optimizing cvtcolor in Imgproc #29389
**Key Changes:**
1. Unified three divergent SIMD swap implementations into a single shared `v_swap` helper.
2. Consolidated the repeated `CV_8U/CV_16U/CV_32F` depth-dispatch chains into a single `CvtColorLoopDepth` template.
3. Extracted the duplicated coefficient-selection loops in the YCrCb/YUV constructors into `selectYuvCoeffs`.
4. Collapsed the shared YUV420 store logic duplicated across both decode invokers into `storeYUV420block`.
5. Generalized the inline blue-channel coefficient swaps in `color_lab.cpp` into `swapBlueCoeffsCols`/`swapBlueCoeffsRows`.
6. Added a `v_dotprod`-based SIMD path (`v_RGB2Y`/`v_RGB2UV`) for the previously scalar `RGB8toYUV422Invoker`.
7. Migrated all inline `CV_IPP_CHECK` cvtColor paths out of the dispatch files and into the IPP HAL plugin (`hal/ipp/src/color_ipp.cpp`), replacing each call site with `CALL_HAL`.
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Extract IPP integration as HAL function for box_filter #29420
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Migrate the ushort specialization from CV_SIMD128 to (CV_SIMD ||
CV_SIMD_SCALABLE), enabling AVX2/AVX512/RVV widths instead of 128-bit only.
uchar specialization left at CV_SIMD128 — initial migration regressed on
RVV (Muse Pi v3.0, 0.77~0.85x) when vlanes16 == TILE_SIZE collapses the
SIMD loop to one iteration and per-tile setup overhead dominates.
- replace v_int32x4/v_uint32x4/v_uint64x2 with scalable v_int32/v_uint32/v_uint64
- iota vector in static const sized by VTraits::max_nlanes (initialized once at program load)
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imgproc: optimized LUT and equalizeHist with SIMD #29250
- optimized lut with SIMD
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Improved color convert and AVX512 dispatch added #28992
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More use of AutoBuffer #28907
When possible, AutoBuffer should be faster than std::vector<>, and should not be worse if it requires a heap allocation rather than a stack allocation.
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Fix remap nearest rounding #29145
Thanks, I checked the Windows x64 test logs. The imgproc failures are from the OpenCL `Remap_INTER_NEAREST` tests with `(16SC2, 16UC1)` maps. I missed the OpenCL fixed-point path in the first patch.
I updated `modules/imgproc/src/opencl/remap.cl` to use the same nearest rounding condition as the CPU path. This should address the OCL remap failures.
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Added harfbuzz; use it instead of STB to render text #29300
Merge with https://github.com/opencv/opencv_extra/pull/1378.
This is the next big step to improve font rendering in OpenCV 5.x. See #18760, #26301. See also OpenCV 5.0 release notes, where it was pointed out that complex scripts are not rendered correctly, and HarfBuzz integration is needed to fix it. So, here it is — HarfBuzz integration:
* Removed tweaked STB engine. STB truetype rendering engine was included into OpenCV 5.0-pre/5.0 and it was extended to instantiate and render variable fonts, but the support was incomplete and immature.
* Instead, we now use [HarfBuzz](https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz) — famous font shaping library and now also font rendering library, used by many big companies and organizations.
* As a result, we now correctly render complex scripts, such as arabic or devanagari, correctly handle font ligatures (ff, fi, ft etc.)
<img width="1300" height="600" alt="text_test" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a7d2c754-0fcf-40f8-8104-578f3a14850b" />
* Potentially, we could also support color emoji, but that would be a next step.
* As with STB-based engine, glyphs are cached (the same glyph from the same font is not rendered twice), so the performance should be on par with the previous engine.
* When OpenCV is built with `-DWITH_HARFBUZZ=ON`, which is set by default, it tries to detect HarfBuzz in the system and use it. If it's not detected, OpenCV builds our own small subset of HarfBuzz.
The following table compares size of libopencv_imgproc.dylib.5.0.0 (Release mode) in different configurations:
| Configuration | libopencv_imgproc (stripped) | delta vs 5.0 |
|----------------------------------------|------------------------------|----------|
| imgproc without text rendering (`-DWITH_HARFBUZZ=OFF`) | 4.27 MB | −2.35 MB |
| imgproc with stb-based engine (5.0) | 6.62 MB | 0.0 Mb |
| imgproc with HarfBuzz-based engine (this PR) | 7.07 MB | +0.45 MB |
The biggest source of the size increase when OpenCV is built with text rendering support (STB- or Harfbuzz-based) is that imgproc in this case includes .ttf fonts (Rubik and 'Wen Quan Yi Micro Hei'), which are gzip-compressed, but still have noticeable size, especially 'Wen Quan Yi' (~2Mb). HarfBuzz itself, compared to STB engine, adds just 0.45Mb, or ~7% to imgproc size. On other platforms (Linux x64, Windows), where IPP or other acceleration libraries are linked into libopencv_imgproc, the harfbuzz footprint is even less noticeable.
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When computing TM_SQDIFF for 8-bit images, crossCorr stores intermediate
results in CV_32F which loses precision for large patch sums (e.g. 25x25
patch of value 255 gives sum=40603125, exceeding float32's ~7 significant
digits). This causes the final SQDIFF result to have incorrect non-zero
values even when image and template are identical.
Fix: use a CV_64F intermediate buffer for crossCorr and common_matchTemplate
when depth==CV_8U and method is TM_SQDIFF or TM_SQDIFF_NORMED, then convert
back to CV_32F for the final output.
Fixes#21786
Improving Parallelism and Memory Access Efficiency for Hough Transform Accumulator #29059
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# [Optimization] Improving Parallelism and Memory Access Efficiency for Hough Transform Accumulator
## Overview / Motivation
The original implementation mainly rely on single‑threaded nested loops, which do not fully utilize the computational power of modern multi‑core CPUs. There is also room for improvement in memory access patterns and branch prediction. **Without altering any core mathematical logic or ensuring result consistency**, this work improves the execution efficiency of these two processes by introducing `cv::parallel_for_` and refactoring data access patterns.
---
## Detailed Changes
* **Original Code Analysis**: The original code uses a double loop – the outer loop scans the image for edge points (`if image[...] != 0`), and the inner loop iterates over all angles, computes the radius, and writes to the global `accum` array. This pattern is hard to parallelize directly because different threads writing to the same accumulator would cause **data races**. Moreover, the sparse conditional branch inside the loop is extremely unfriendly to CPU branch prediction.
* **Optimization Strategy (Sparse Extraction → Parallel over Angles)**:
1. **Sparse Feature Extraction**: First, pre‑scan the image in a single thread, extract the coordinates (`x`, `y`) and values of all non‑zero pixels (edge points) into a contiguous `std::vector` (pre‑allocate 10% of the image size to reduce dynamic reallocation overhead).
2. **Switch the Parallel Dimension**: Instead of splitting the image region, change the parallelization dimension to **angle (`numangle`)**. Use `cv::parallel_for_` to assign different angle ranges to different threads.
3. **Conflict‑free Memory Writes**: Because the `accum` array is strictly partitioned by angle `n` in memory, threads assigned to different angles write to completely non‑overlapping memory blocks in the global `accum`.
---
## Correctness Testing
Correctness tests are based on the provided `opencv_test`. For the Hough tests, no failing test cases were observed.
---
## Performance Benchmarks
> The following tests were run on Intel(R) Core(TM) i9‑14900HX @ 2.2GHz / Windows 11 (WSL: Ubuntu) with GCC 13.3.0.
Using `opencv_perf` tests that include Hough, the results are as follows:
| Test Case | 1st mean | 5th mean | Diff |
|-----------|----------|----------|------|
| `PerfHoughCircles.Basic` | 4.75 | 4.91 | +3.4% |
| `PerfHoughCircles2.ManySmallCircles` | 56.76 | 59.37 | +4.6% |
| `PerfHoughCircles4f.Basic` | 4.14 | 4.03 | -2.7% |
#### II. `OCL_HoughLines` (Standard Hough Line, OCL wrapper, actually executed on CPU)
| Parameters (size, rho, theta) | 1st mean | 5th mean | Diff |
|-------------------------------|----------|----------|------|
| (640×480, 0.1, 0.01745) | 2.57 | 3.21 | +24.9% |
| (640×480, 1, 0.1) | 0.18 | 0.21 | +16.7% |
| (1920×1080, 0.1, 0.01745)|12.27 |15.55 | +26.7% |
| (1920×1080, 1, 0.1) | 0.69 | 0.99 | +43.5% |
| (3840×2160, 0.1, 0.01745)|28.43 |34.78 | +22.3% |
| (3840×2160, 1, 0.1) | 2.15 | 3.51 | +63.3% |
#### III. `OCL_HoughLinesP` (Probabilistic Hough Line)
| Image and parameters (rho, theta) | 1st mean | 5th mean | Diff |
|------------------------------------|----------|----------|------|
| pic5.png, 0.1, 0.01745 | 1.20 | 1.22 | +1.7% |
| pic5.png, 1, 0.01745 | 1.03 | 0.92 | -10.7% |
| a1.png, 0.1, 0.01745 | 8.71 | 9.32 | +7.0% |
| a1.png, 1, 0.01745 | 6.29 | 6.68 | +6.2% |
#### IV. Standard Hough Line (CPU implementation, non‑OCL) `Image_RhoStep_ThetaStep_Threshold_HoughLines`
| Parameters (image, rho, theta, thresh) | 1st mean | 5th mean | Diff |
|-----------------------------------------|----------|----------|------|
| pic5.png, 1, 0.01, 0.5 | 2.19 | 0.82 | **-62.6%** |
| pic5.png, 10, 0.01, 0.5 | 2.08 | 0.53 | **-74.5%** |
| pic5.png, 1, 0.1, 0.5 | 0.24 | 0.15 | -37.5% |
| a1.png, 1, 0.01, 0.5 | 16.06 | 2.65 | **-83.5%** |
| a1.png, 10, 0.01, 0.5 | 17.05 | 1.92 | **-88.7%** |
| a1.png, 1, 0.1, 0.5 | 1.82 | 1.00 | -45.1% |
#### V. Floating‑Point Hough Line (`...HoughLines3f`)
| Parameters (image, rho, theta, thresh) | 1st mean | 5th mean | Diff |
|-----------------------------------------|----------|----------|------|
| pic5.png, 1, 0.01, 0.5 | 1.97 | 0.86 | **-56.3%** |
| pic5.png, 10, 0.01, 0.5 | 1.66 | 0.54 | **-67.5%** |
| a1.png, 1, 0.01, 0.5 | 18.52 | 2.59 | **-86.0%** |
| a1.png, 10, 0.01, 0.5 | 16.30 | 2.05 | **-87.4%** |
| a1.png, 1, 0.1, 0.5 | 1.72 | 0.97 | -43.6% |
### Conclusion
- **Circle detection, probabilistic Hough line**: Differences between the two runs are very small (within ±11%), indicating stable performance.
- **`OCL_HoughLines`**: The parallel test is generally 10%~63% slower than the serial one, but still within a reasonable fluctuation range. Special handling was attempted but did not bring significant improvement and slightly reduced the gains in the subsequent two groups, so it was left unchanged after comprehensive consideration.
- **CPU standard Hough line (non‑OCL)**: The parallel test is significantly faster than the serial one (up to 88% faster), demonstrating that parallel optimization can bring obvious improvements.
By the way at last, I am extremely grateful to the maintainers for helping me test the last PR. However, since I was unable to obtain the development board, I was unable to continue modifying the previous RVV optimization.
imgproc: optimize EMD (Earth Mover's Distance) solver performance #29194
### imgproc: optimize EMD solver performance using O(V) spanning tree traversal
---
This PR significantly optimizes the performance of the Earth Mover's Distance (`cv::EMD`) solver in `modules/imgproc/src/emd_new.cpp`.
Specifically, it refactors the dual-variable calculation in `EMDSolver::findBasicVars()` from a naive $O((N+M)^2)$ linked-list scanning approach to an optimized $O(N+M)$ BFS tree traversal utilizing existing adjacency lists, leading to a massive speedup.
---
#### Technical Details & Core Bottleneck Fixed
1. **Algorithmic Complexity Reduction in `findBasicVars()`:**
- **Before**: The original implementation solved the dual variables $u_i$ and $v_j$ by traversing the entire unmarked rows (`u0_head`) or columns (`v0_head`) linked-lists and invoking `getIsX(i, j)` inside nested loops to find connected basic variables. This resulted in an $O((N+M)^2)$ complexity per simplex iteration. For a scale of $2000 \times 2000$, this performed up to $16,000,000$ operations per iteration.
- **After**: Since `EMDSolver` already maintains the adjacency lists of the basic variables tree (`rows_x` and `cols_x`), we can traverse the spanning tree in linear time. This PR implements a dual-queue BFS tree traversal. The complexity per iteration is drastically reduced to $O(N+M)$, performing at most $4000$ operations per iteration.
2. **Cache Locality & Pointer-Chasing Elimination:**
- Replaced pointer-chasing on dynamically-allocated linked lists with contiguous, stack-allocated array queues (`cv::AutoBuffer`), significantly improving CPU L1/L2 cache hit rates and enabling hardware prefetching.
---
#### Performance Benchmarks
Below is the benchmark comparison evaluated on a standard CPU.
#### Test 1: dims = 64
| Scale ($N, M$) | Original EMD (ms) | Optimized EMD (This PR) | Speedup |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **100** | 5.473 | 3.419 | **1.60x** |
| **500** | 381.871 | 244.355 | **1.56x** |
| **1000** | 1893.053 | 1369.016 | **1.38x** |
| **2000** | 11387.792 | 8331.221 | **1.37x** |
#### Test 2: dims = 3
| Scale ($N, M$) | Original EMD (ms) | Optimized EMD (This PR) | Speedup |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **100** | 4.433 | 3.042 | **1.46x** |
| **500** | 365.762 | 259.735 | **1.41x** |
| **1000** | 1989.400 | 1421.952 | **1.40x** |
| **2000** | 12731.836 | 7952.210 | **1.60x** |
*(Note: The exact performance figures may vary slightly depending on the compiler and test machine.)*
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#### Verification
- All existing tests in `opencv_test_imgproc` (including EMD tests) pass successfully. No regressions were introduced.
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imgproc: fix missing tipLength validation in arrowedLine #29191
### Pull Request Description
**Issue/Bug:**
Currently, the `cv::arrowedLine` function in `modules/imgproc/src/drawing.cpp` lacks boundary validation for the `tipLength` parameter. Passing an invalid ratio (e.g., negative values or values > 1.0) leads to mathematically distorted arrowhead coordinates being silently passed to the underlying `line()` drawing function, resulting in severely deformed output without any warning.
**Solution:**
Added a `CV_Assert` to enforce the geometric contract of `tipLength`, ensuring it strictly falls within the logical bounds `(0.0, 1.0]`. This adheres to the fail-fast principle and prevents silent geometric failures.
**Testing:**
Successfully built the project locally and added a dedicated regression test (`arrowedLine_tipLength_validation`) using Google Test in `modules/imgproc/test/test_drawing.cpp`. Tested with boundary values (e.g., `tipLength = 1.5` and `-0.5`), and the assertion correctly intercepts the invalid parameters before rasterization.
*(Note: This contribution is part of a university engineering project evaluating open-source workflow and C++ robustness.)*
The first conversion to Lab or Luv lazily builds a softfloat lookup table, and that build was doing about 108000 software emulated pow calls plus a fully serial 33x33x33 cube loop. This memoizes applyGamma over the 33 grid values and runs the cube loop with parallel_for_, cutting the first call from around 110 ms to around 25 ms on my machine. The per point computation is unchanged so the tables stay bit exact.
imgproc: fix INTER_NEAREST_EXACT to match Pillow (5.x retarget of #28661) #28873
## Summary
Fixes `INTER_NEAREST_EXACT` producing different results from Pillow for images with dimensions that are multiples of 64 (e.g., 128, 192).
Retargets #28661 to 5.x per core team request.
## Root cause
The old 16-bit fixed-point arithmetic (`ifx`, `ifx0`, `>> 16`) rounds differently from Pillow's pixel-center coordinate mapping. At exact pixel boundaries (e.g., y=7 with 128 to 160: `0.4 + 7*0.8 = 5.999999999999999`), Pillow's truncation drops to 5 while the old opencv formula rounds to 6.
## Changes
- `resize.cpp`: Replace `ifx/ifx0/ify/ify0` 16-bit fixed-point with an int64 arithmetic formula equivalent to `floor((i + 0.5) * src / dst)`, computed as `((int64_t)(i * 2 + 1) * src) / (dst * 2)`. This matches Pillow's pixel-center mapping exactly, is deterministic across platforms, and avoids FP rounding divergence entirely.
- `test_resize_bitexact.cpp`: Add `NearestExact_PillowCompat` covering 4 dimension pairs including the reproducer from #28429.
## Testing
- All 3 `Resize_Bitexact` tests pass (Linear8U, Nearest8U, NearestExact_PillowCompat) on this branch built against 5.x
- Verified bit-exact match to PIL output (Python 3.14, Pillow) on 49 dimension combinations including random pairs
- Built on macOS ARM64 with HAL (carotene/KleidiCV) active
Fixes#28429
Inverted imgproc-geometry dependency and moved more functions to geometry #29230
Fixes: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/20267
Continues: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/29175
OpenCV Contrib: https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib/pull/4137
OpenCV Extra: https://github.com/opencv/opencv_extra/pull/1377
Summary:
- LSD returned back to imgproc
- drawing functions moved to imgproc
- undistort image and related perf-pixel functions moved to imgproc
- moments moved to geometry
- estimateXXXtransform moved to geometry
After the patch the geometry module depends on code and Flann and may be used everywhere without potential circular dependencies
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Revised bicubic interpolation kernels and updated the corresponding functions #29165
They should work more accurately and faster than the existing implementation. The PR follows the previous work (#26271 etc.) that brought faster bilinear kernels.
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The is_simple check used mask.empty() after the default mask
had already been created, making it always false. This caused
the fast path (floodFill_CnIR) to be dead code — every call
went through the slower gradient-based path (floodFillGrad_CnIR).
Fix: save _mask.empty() result before auto-creating the default
mask and use it for the is_simple check.
Moved geometry transformations from imgproc to 3d, future geometry module #29101
The first step of 2d geometry operations migration to the future geometry module.
I created 2d.hpp to isolate the moved functions for now. I propose to create geometry.hpp when the module is renamed and include all things there.
OpenCV contrib: https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib/pull/4126
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