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.
The `opencv_test_video` failure seems unrelated to this PR (`ECCfixtures/Video_ECC.accuracy/6` invalid memory access), since this PR only touches remap rounding in imgproc.
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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.)*
---
#### 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.
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.
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### Summary
This PR improves SIMD coverage for masked `cv::accumulate()` on 4-channel images.
The existing masked accumulate SIMD implementation has special paths for `cn == 1` and `cn == 3`, while 4-channel images fall back to the general implementation. This PR adds `cn == 4` SIMD paths using OpenCV Universal Intrinsics.
Compare link:
https://github.com/opencv/opencv/compare/4.x...feitianduowen:opencv:4.x
Modified files:
- `modules/imgproc/src/accum.simd.hpp`
- Add masked `cn == 4` SIMD paths for:
- `CV_32FC4 -> CV_32FC4`
- `CV_8UC4 -> CV_32FC4`
- `modules/video/test/test_accum.cpp`
- Add deterministic correctness regression tests for the new masked 4-channel accumulate paths.
- `modules/imgproc/perf/perf_accumulate.cpp`
- Add performance coverage for masked 4-channel accumulate.
imgproc: add SIMD paths for masked 4-channel accumulate #29094
### Implementation
The new SIMD branches are added in:
- `modules/imgproc/src/accum.simd.hpp`
They handle:
- `src`: `CV_32FC4`, `dst`: `CV_32FC4`, `mask`: `CV_8UC1`
- `src`: `CV_8UC4`, `dst`: `CV_32FC4`, `mask`: `CV_8UC1`
For the `CV_32FC4` path, the implementation uses `v_load_deinterleave`, applies the pixel mask to all 4 channels, accumulates into `dst`, and stores the result with `v_store_interleave`.
For the `CV_8UC4 -> CV_32FC4` path, the implementation loads 4 interleaved uchar channels, applies the pixel mask, widens the values to float, accumulates into `dst`, and stores the results back as interleaved `CV_32FC4`.
The masked SIMD block is guarded with:
```cpp
if (x <= len - cVectorWidth)
{
...
}
```
This check ensures that SIMD setup and vector operations are only executed when at least one full vector iteration can run. For very small inputs or tail-only cases, the function skips SIMD initialization and lets the existing scalar fallback handle the data through `acc_general_(src, dst, mask, len, cn, x)`.
This keeps tail handling unchanged and avoids unnecessary SIMD initialization when the vector loop would be skipped.
### Accuracy tests
Added a deterministic regression test in:
* `modules/video/test/test_accum.cpp`
New test:
```bash
Video_Acc.accuracy_32FC4_masked_cn4
Video_Acc.accuracy_8UC4_to_32FC4_masked_cn4
```
Test commands:
```bash
opencv_test_video --gtest_filter=Video_Acc.accuracy_32FC4_masked_cn4
opencv_test_video --gtest_filter=Video_Acc.accuracy_8UC4_to_32FC4_masked_cn4
opencv_test_video --gtest_filter="Video_Acc.*:Video_AccSquared.*:Video_AccProduct.*:Video_RunningAvg.*"
```
The filtered accumulate-related tests passed locally.
I added dedicated deterministic tests instead of only extending the existing randomized accumulate tests because this PR only changes the masked `cv::accumulate()` paths for specific 4-channel type combinations. It does not add `cn == 4` SIMD coverage for `accumulateSquare`, `accumulateProduct`, or `accumulateWeighted`.
The existing base accumulate tests are shared by several accumulation functions. Extending the common randomized channel selection to include `cn == 4` would also affect tests for functions that are not optimized by this PR. The new deterministic tests directly cover the modified paths:
* `cv::accumulate(src, dst, mask)`
* `CV_32FC4 -> CV_32FC4`
* `CV_8UC4 -> CV_32FC4`
* `mask`: `CV_8UC1`
The test also covers small sizes and non-vector-multiple sizes, so both the new SIMD path and the existing scalar tail fallback are exercised.
### Performance tests
Added performance coverage in:
* `modules/imgproc/perf/perf_accumulate.cpp`
Perf command:
```bash
opencv_perf_imgproc --gtest_filter="*AccumulateMask32FC4*" --perf_min_samples=1000 --perf_force_samples=1000
opencv_perf_imgproc --gtest_filter="*AccumulateMask8UC4To32FC4*" --perf_min_samples=1000 --perf_force_samples=1000
```
Test environment:
* Release build
* AVX2 enabled
* IPP disabled
* OpenCL disabled
* Windows MinGW build
Performance results:
`CV_32FC4 -> CV_32FC4`
| Size | Before median | After median | Speedup |
| --------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------- |
| 1920x1080 | 3.07 ms | 2.74 ms | 1.12x |
| 1280x720 | 0.84 ms | 0.73 ms | 1.15x |
| 640x480 | 0.17 ms | 0.16 ms | 1.06x |
| 320x240 | 0.04 ms | 0.04 ms | ~1.00x |
`CV_8UC4 -> CV_32FC4`
| Size | Before median | After median | Speedup |
| --------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------- |
| 1920x1080 | 6.09 ms | 1.75 ms | 3.48x |
| 1280x720 | 2.69 ms | 0.82 ms | 3.28x |
| 640x480 | 0.96 ms | 0.28 ms | 3.43x |
| 320x240 | 0.24 ms | 0.06 ms | 4.00x |
| 127x61 | 0.02 ms | 0.01 ms | 2.00x |
### Build and test commands
The following commands were run from Windows `cmd.exe`.
```sh
cmake -S . -B build_release -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_PERF_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DWITH_IPP=OFF -DWITH_OPENCL=OFF -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mstackrealign -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-mstackrealign
cmake --build build_release --target opencv_test_video -j 4
build_release\bin\opencv_test_video.exe --gtest_filter=Video_Acc.accuracy_32FC4_masked_cn4
build_release\bin\opencv_test_video.exe --gtest_filter=Video_Acc.accuracy_8UC4_to_32FC4_masked_cn4
build_release\bin\opencv_test_video.exe --gtest_filter=Video_Acc.*:Video_AccSquared.*:Video_AccProduct.*:Video_RunningAvg.*
```
Accuracy test commands passed locally.
For the performance comparison, I kept the new perf test in `modules/imgproc/perf/perf_accumulate.cpp` and only reverted `modules/imgproc/src/accum.simd.hpp` to measure the baseline. Then I restored the SIMD patch and measured the optimized version.
Baseline measurement:
```sh
git diff -- modules/imgproc/src/accum.simd.hpp > accum_cn4_simd.patch
git checkout -- modules/imgproc/src/accum.simd.hpp
mkdir perf_logs
cmake -S . -B build_perf_before -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_PERF_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DWITH_IPP=OFF -DWITH_OPENCL=OFF -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mstackrealign -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-mstackrealign > perf_logs\before_cmake_config.txt 2>&1
cmake --build build_perf_before --target opencv_perf_imgproc -j 4 > perf_logs\before_build.txt 2>&1
build_perf_before\bin\opencv_perf_imgproc.exe --gtest_filter=*AccumulateMask32FC4* --perf_min_samples=1000 --perf_force_samples=1000 > perf_logs\before_perf.txt 2>&1
```
```sh
git diff -- modules/imgproc/src/accum.simd.hpp > accum_cn4_u8_simd.patch
git checkout -- modules/imgproc/src/accum.simd.hpp
cmake -S . -B build_perf_before_u8 -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_PERF_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DWITH_IPP=OFF -DWITH_OPENCL=OFF -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mstackrealign -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-mstackrealign
cmake --build build_perf_before_u8 --target opencv_perf_imgproc -j 4
build_perf_before_u8\bin\opencv_perf_imgproc.exe --gtest_filter=*AccumulateMask8UC4To32FC4* --perf_min_samples=1000 --perf_force_samples=1000 > perf_logs\before_perf1.txt 2>&1
```
Optimized measurement:
```sh
git apply accum_cn4_simd.patch
cmake -S . -B build_perf_after -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_PERF_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DWITH_IPP=OFF -DWITH_OPENCL=OFF -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mstackrealign -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-mstackrealign > perf_logs\after_cmake_config.txt 2>&1
cmake --build build_perf_after --target opencv_perf_imgproc -j 4 > perf_logs\after_build.txt 2>&1
build_perf_after\bin\opencv_perf_imgproc.exe --gtest_filter=*AccumulateMask32FC4* --perf_min_samples=500 --perf_force_samples=500 > perf_logs\after_perf.txt 2>&1
```
```sh
git apply accum_cn4_u8_simd.patch
cmake -S . -B build_perf_after_u8 -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_PERF_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DWITH_IPP=OFF -DWITH_OPENCL=OFF -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mstackrealign -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-mstackrealign
cmake --build build_perf_after_u8 --target opencv_perf_imgproc -j 4
build_perf_after_u8\bin\opencv_perf_imgproc.exe --gtest_filter=*AccumulateMask8UC4To32FC4* --perf_min_samples=1000 --perf_force_samples=1000 > perf_logs\after_perf1.txt 2>&1
```
Performance comparison was measured by keeping the new perf tests and only reverting modules/imgproc/src/accum.simd.hpp for the baseline run.
`-mstackrealign` was used for the MinGW Windows build to avoid stack-alignment issues with AVX code generation during local testing.
### Notes
The implementation keeps the existing scalar fallback path unchanged. SIMD is used only for the newly covered masked `cn == 4` vectorizable part, and any remaining tail elements are still handled by `acc_general_()`.
The improvement is most visible on larger images. Small images are dominated by overhead and do not always show meaningful speedup.
imgproc: add kernel size validation in boxFilter #29040
Check that ksize dimensions are strictly positive in boxFilter(), returning StsBadSize error instead of producing undefined behavior.
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imgproc: add findTRUContours - lock-free parallel contour extraction #28773
Integrates the TRUCO algorithm (Threaded Raster Unrestricted Contour Ownership, @cite TRUCO2026) as a transparent fast path inside `cv::findContours`. No API change is required: existing code automatically benefits when `mode=RETR_LIST` and no hierarchy output is requested.
### How it works
When `mode=RETR_LIST` and the caller does not request hierarchy, `findContours` delegates to the TRUCO parallel engine instead of Suzuki-Abe. All ContourApproximationModes are supported; approximation is applied in parallel after extraction. In all other cases the original Suzuki-Abe path is used unchanged.
### Key design ideas
- Row-strip domain decomposition parallelised via `cv::parallel_for_`
- Start-point ownership rule + speculative downward tracing eliminate tile stitching and synchronisation primitives (lock-free)
- 8-bit state space instead of the 32-bit integer labeling required by Suzuki-Abe, giving higher SIMD throughput and lower memory-bandwidth pressure
- Paged contour buffer (`TRUCOPagedContour`) avoids heap reallocation on the hot tracing path
- SIMD-accelerated row scanning via `cv::v_uint8` intrinsics
- Thread count controlled globally via `cv::setNumThreads()`, consistent with OpenCV conventions
### Output correctness
Significant effort has gone into ensuring the output is identical to the original `findContours` in every respect: same contour set, same ordering, and same approximation results for all methods. A dedicated test suite (`test_contours_truco.cpp`) verifies exact match against Suzuki-Abe across all four `ContourApproximationModes` and thread counts from 1 to 39, using noise images, circles, nested rectangles, and mixed scenes.
### Performance vs. Suzuki-Abe (from submitted paper)
- single-thread: ~1.8–1.9× faster (8-bit SIMD advantage)
- 20 threads: ~14–20× faster on i7-13700H (6P+8E, 20T)
- 20 threads: ~10–12× faster on Xeon Silver 4510 (12C/24T)
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fix: Guard ndsrvp filter center copy when source span is empty #28915
## Summary
This adds a defensive guard around the centre-region `memcpy` in the ndsrvp HAL filter padding path.
**Description**: Multiple memcpy calls in the ndsrvp HAL filter, bilateral filter, and median blur routines use computed sizes (e.g., cnes * (rborder - j), cn * (rborder - j), src_step * height) without validating that the computed byte count fits within the destination buffer. An attacker supplying a crafted image with manipulated dimensions, channel counts, or border parameters can cause the computed copy size to exceed the allocated destination buffer, resulting in a heap buffer overflow that corrupts adjacent memory.
## Changes
- `hal/ndsrvp/src/filter.cpp`
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*Automated security fix by [OrbisAI Security](https://orbisappsec.com)*
hal/riscv-rvv: implement laplacian #28887
OpenCV Extra: https://github.com/opencv/opencv_extra/pull/1353
An implementation of laplacian for riscv-rvv hal
Added benchmark in perf_laplacian.cpp
The performance is evaluated on K1 by running
./opencv_perf_imgproc --gtest_filter="Perf_Laplacian*"
Results are attached in the figure below.
CV_8U fast path supports ksize=3 with BORDER_CONSTANT/BORDER_REPLICATE; unsupported combinations fall back to default implementation. See performance results bellow.
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imgproc: add SIMD support for distance transform function #28636
- This PR adds OpenCV SIMD intrinsics-based optimizations to the distance transform functions for improved performance.
- The optimized implementation uses vectorized operations to accelerate the forward and backward passes of distance computation.
- In x64 architecture, distance transform function benefit from IPP-based optimized implementations. However, on ARM64 platforms, the execution falls back to scalar implementation, which results in lower performance.
- After introducing these changes, the distance transform functions showed noticeable performance improvements on Windows-ARM64.
<img width="800" height="706" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9786606a-9d92-489d-a5ea-d2e57453ef02" />
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fitEllipseDirect: replace det(M) threshold with eigenvector quality check
- Add Ts ≈ 0 guard to avoid division by zero in Schur complement
- Move eigenNonSymmetric inside perturbation loop
- Validate eigenvector with 4ac-b² > 1e-6*||v||² to filter garbage from
complex eigenvalues
fitEllipseAMS: scale threshold by 1/n^5 to match det(M) magnitude
Add Imgproc_FitEllipseDirect_NearCircular regression test
imgproc: fix minEnclosingCircle O(n^3) worst case by adding Welzl shuffle #28548
Welzl's algorithm requires random permutation of input points to
achieve expected O(n) time. Without shuffling, sorted inputs such
as those produced by findContours() trigger O(n^3) worst case.
Fix: copy input to std::vector<PT> and apply cv::randShuffle()
before processing. Uses OpenCV's RNG so cv::setRNGSeed() ensures
reproducible behavior.
Original benchmark (5088 contour points, Release, AVX2):
findContours output: 3.93 ms → 0.033 ms (119x speedup)
Random points: 0.051 ms → 0.049 ms (no regression)
Perf test results (this PR, Release, AVX2):
| Input | N | Time |
|-------|---|------|
| Sequential circle points | 10000 | 0.03 ms |
| Sequential circle points | 5000 | 0.01 ms |
| Random points (CV_32F) | 100000 | 1.87 ms |
| Random points (CV_32S) | 100000 | 2.81 ms |
Fixes#28546
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In fitEllipseDirect, `double det = fabs(cv::determinant(M))` applies
fabs() unnecessarily since the next line `if (fabs(det) > 1.0e-10)`
already takes the absolute value. Remove the outer fabs() to avoid
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Fix IPP warpAffine #28562
The issue is that we compute the inverse transformation and pass that to the HAL, but tell IPP that we use the actual transformation.
https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/a269a489b94b84717691533a04f79d9a0e5f479a/modules/imgproc/src/imgwarp.cpp#L2399-L2412
I have added an additional test with `CV_16S` Mats to test the IPP implementation, because right now no other `warpAffine` test enters the IPP branch.
This fixes#28554.
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This commit addresses a compiler warning encountered when building with GCC 13 and C++20.
The compiler triggers a false-positive -Wstringop-overflow warning in `findKSides`.
By adding `sides.reserve(k)`, we explicitly inform the compiler about the required
memory allocation, which suppresses the warning and provides a minor optimization
by avoiding potential reallocations.
- Change 'element' to 'kernel' in LaTeX formulas to match actual parameter name
- Fix erode() and dilate() function documentation (lines 2330, 2338, 2362, 2370)
- Fix MorphTypes enum documentation (MORPH_OPEN, MORPH_CLOSE, MORPH_GRADIENT, MORPH_TOPHAT, MORPH_BLACKHAT)
- Fix backtick formatting in dilate() documentation
Resolves#18095
Fix integer overflow in medianBlur #28386
The bug in #28385 is that the pointer arithmetic in
https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/d8bc5b94b851d5b392c61e5b954fba992e18bb73/modules/imgproc/src/median_blur.simd.hpp#L666-L668
overflows if `i*sstep` is larger than `INT_MAX`, because both variables are of type `int`. If one operand is of type `size_t` instead, the other operand gets promoted to `size_t` before multiplication and overflow doesn't happen anymore.
The test allocates 2.3GB for the Mat; I hope that's okay.
This PR fixes#28385
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imgproc: replace assertion in cornerSubPix with descriptive error #28404
Replace CV_Assert with explicit bounds check for initial corners in cornerSubPix.
This provides a descriptive runtime error instead of abrupt termination,
improving error handling for Python and C++ users.
No algorithmic or behavioral change for valid inputs.
Fixes#25139 (Related to #7276).
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