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10. (temporary) Conclusions
Iāve tried to collect here material coming from various sources and my own ļ¬ndings around the (very personal indeed) subject of sharpening. I was particularly interested in showing how to mix blurring kernels and why pyramid decomposition is a platform on the top of which many sharpening strategies can be developed successfully. Finding new ways to use old tools in order to accomplish even slightly sophisticated tasks pays for the time spent on the project. I still have many open questions, for instance how to simulate the USMās threshold slider via channel blending (or masks, even though Iād prefer to do the masking with calculations).
Nevertheless Iām pretty happy with the results by now: using those workļ¬ows means adding a lot of extra steps, even when Iāll ļ¬nd the time to put together actions/scripts to automatize the monkey work; I donāt know whether someone but me would ever try to use them in production environments (it depends on the kind of production, by the way). But, again, itās food for thoughts: Iāve always believed in knowledge sharing and plural researches, so Iām waiting for suggestions, corrections, and smarter workļ¬ows to sharpen. I plan to keep the article updated, so check for revision number at the top of the page - I have a big fat to-do list (actions, scripts, etc). Drop me an email if you like to be warned when something new appears or just want to give feedback - undavide at gmail dot com.
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