Now Available as Freeware
SAR Image Processor, version 5.0
Instruction Manual
Exercises
Description
SAR Image Processor is a freeware image editing program for the PC.  
Most people will want SAR for its enlargement capabilities.  
See Comparisons of Image Enlargement Methods.  
Features
- Free, fully enabled, registration is not needed or accepted (New with version 5.0)
- Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Based Denoising (New with version 4.3)
- Least Absolute Deviations (LAD) Based Color Matching (New with version 4.3)
- Homogenize Insides of Line Enclosures (New with version 4.3)
- FFT (New with version 4.3)
- Multithreading (New with version 4.2)
- Image Enlargement by modified Roussos-Maragos Method (New with version 4.2)
- Image Enlargement by Pseudo-LAD (Improved with version 4.2)
- Pseudo-LAD Deconvolution - See Exercise4 (Improved with version 4.2)
- Capability to Measure Mean Structural Similarity Index (MSSIM) (New with version 4.2)
- Find Convolution Kernel from a Blurred and a Sharp Image - See Exercise4
- Find Convolution Kernel from Image of Point Light Source
- Save/Read Convolution Kernel from Text File
- View Singular Value Decomposition of Convolution Kernel
- Smudge Painting - See Exercise5
- Semi-Automatic Colorization - See Exercise6
- Improved Noise Reduction by Contourlets
- Add Noise
- Contrast Enhancement based on Edge-Preserving Decompositions for Multi-Scale Tone and Detail Manipulation
by Z.Farbman et. al..
- Contrast Enhancement based on Hysteresis Filter
- Pyramidal Stacking (similar to Tufuse)
- New Extended DOF Stacking
- Improved HDR Tone Mapping 1
- Ergonomic Improvements
- Purple Defringing
- Custom curves using new splineless method
- Seam Carving with Derivative Blending (Gradient Domain Carving)
- Seamless Cloning
- Floating Point TIFF Support
- Stacking for High Dynamic Range (HDR)
- HDR Contrast Equalization (based on work of R. Mantiuk)
- Automatic Variable Shift Alignment, "Block Alignment"
- Geometrical Transformations Including Arbitrary Rotation via Lanczos Interpolation
- Elastic Image Alignment
- Automatic Image Alignment by simultaneous Rotation, Resizing and Translation
- Fast Automatic Image Alignment by Translation
- Extended Depth of Field Stacking
- Noise Reduction by Non-Local Means (NL Means)
- Gaussian Weighted Median
- Image Enlargement with Super Rez. Postprocessing
- 96 bit Internal Processing
- Stacking by multivariate median to remove passing objects.
- Image Magnification by Data Dependent Lanczos
- Periodic Smoothing for Pattern Removal
- Image Magnification by Xin Li and Zhao-Xin Li
- Image Magnification by Triangulation
- Image Magnification by Iterated Function Systems (IFS)
- Isophote Smoothing Filter
- Bilateral Filter
- Jensen Edge Enhancement
- Weighted Majority with Minimum Range (WMMR) Filter
- Shock Filter
- Texture Inpainting
- Tschumperle Inpainting
- Eight Color Space Modes: RGB, CMY, YCbCr, HSV, HSI, log CMY, RGB Gamma 2.2 and YCbCr Gamma 2.2
- One, Two, and Four Point Registration
- Image Stacking for Dynamic Range Increase
- Reads and Writes 48 bit TIFF, 48 bit PNG, 48 bit FITS and 96 bit FITS files.
- Modified Unsharp Mask
- Inverse Operations: Add/Subtract, Multiply/Divide, Interpolate/Extrapolate and Gamma
- Input (as well as output) Masking for Lens Blur, Median, and WMMR
- Batch Operations
- Programmed Operations (Actions)
- Lanczos Interpolation
- Printing with automatic, internal resizing to optimum size.
- Paint (Most operations can be applied with paint strokes)
- Histogram
- Channel Selection
- Masked Operations
- Mask by Color
- Mask by Edge Detection
- Perspective Crop
- Stacking
- Noise Removal
- Lens Blur
- Reads and Writes 24 Bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and BMP files.
- Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear and Bicubic Interpolation
- Histogram
- Gradient
- Negative
- Crop
- Rotate
- Flip Horizontal
- Flip Vertical
- Gaussian Blur
- Median
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