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SAR Image Processor, version 4.1
Instruction Manual
Exercises
Description
SAR Image Processor is an image editing program for the PC.
Most people will want SAR for its enlargement capabilities.
See Comparisons of Image Enlargement Methods.
Also, SAR has made substantial progress with HDR Tone Mapping.
See HDR Gallery.
The unregistered program has disabled file saving and printing, but is, otherwise, fully functional.
Once the correct registration code is entered, file saving and printing will be enabled.
Features
- Find Convolution Kernel from a Blurred and a Sharp Image - See Exercise4 (New with version 4.1)
- Find Convolution Kernel from Image of Point Light Source (New with version 4.1)
- Save/Read Convolution Kernel from Text File (New with version 4.1)
- View Singular Value Decomposition of Convolution Kernel (New with version 4.1)
- Pseudo-LAD Deconvolution - See Exercise4 (New with version 4.1)
- Smudge Painting - See Exercise5 (New with version 4.1)
- Semi-Automatic Colorization - See Exercise6 (New with version 4.1)
- Image Upsampling by Pseudo-LAD
- 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 (2.7X the speed of old method)
- Improved HDR Tone Mapping 1
- Ergonomic Improvements
- Purple Defringing
- Fast Approximation to Bilateral Filter
- 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.
- Deconvolution (Deblurring) and Image Magnification by Least Absolute Deviations (LAD)
- 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 Jensen Hybrids
- Image Magnification by Iterated Function Systems (IFS)
- Backprojected Enlargement Methods
- Capability to Make Objective Measurements of Enlargement Quality
- Isophote Smoothing Filter
- Bilateral Filter
- Jensen Edge Enhancement
- Weighted Majority with Minimum Range (WMMR) Filter
- XSharpen 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
Download SAR Image Processor 4.1 (1 MB)
Download GDIPLUS (945 KB)(Not Needed by Windows XP users.)
Attention Previous Registrants of SAR Image Processor!
Starting with version 4.1, there is a change of policy due to hacked versions of SAR Image Processor appearing on the web.
With some exceptions (See 2. below.), there will no longer be free updates.
This will allow me to easily change security codes and measures more often.
However, to offset some of the unfairness to you,
1. I have cut the price in half to $25 (the price of versions 3.6 to 4.0 was $50).
2. Those who bought versions 3.9 or 4.0 will be given a free upgrade to 4.1 upon request.
Registration
The registration fee is $25.
Registered users will receive a 10 digit registration key code that eliminates nag screens at startup and enables save and print functions.
Registered users will not be notified by email of available upgrades.
If you wish to register and live in a country not served by PayPal, please, contact me for information necessary to make payment by Western Union
New Registration by PayPal:
After payment, please allow me two days to email you the Registration Key Code.
In case of difficulty, please contact me,
.