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| <h1>ImageMagick Compare Command-line Tool</h1> |
| <p class="navigation-index">[<a href="#usage">Example Usage</a> • <a href="#options">Option Summary</a>]</p> |
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| <p>Use the <kbd>compare</kbd> program to mathematically and visually annotate the difference between an image and its reconstruction. See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html">Command Line Processing</a> for advice on how to structure your <kbd>compare</kbd> command or see below for example usages of the command.</p> |
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| <p>We list a few examples of the <kbd>compare</kbd> command here to illustrate its usefulness and ease of use. To get started, lets compare an image to one thats been sharpened:</p> |
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| <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>convert rose.jpg -sharpen 0x1 reconstruct.jpg</span><span class='crtout'></span><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>compare rose.jpg reconstruct.jpg difference.png</span><span class='crtout'></span><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>compare -compose src rose.jpg reconstruct.jpg difference.png</span></p> |
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| <a href="../images/rose.jpg"><img src="../images/rose.jpg" width="70" height="46" alt="rose" /></a> |
| <a href="../images/reconstruct.jpg"><img src="../images/reconstruct.jpg" width="70" height="46" alt="rose" /></a> |
| <img style="margin:13px 0;" src="../images/right.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="==>" /> |
| <a href="../images/difference.png"><img src="../images/difference.png" width="70" height="46" alt="rose" /></a> |
| </p> |
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| <p>The red areas of the difference image emphasizes (highlight) pixels that are affected by the image sharpening, whereas white de-emphasizes (lowlight) pixels that are untouched by the sharpening process.</p> |
| |
| <p>In addition to the visual interpretation of the difference in an image and its reconstruction, we report a mathematical measure of the difference:</p> |
| |
| <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>compare -verbose -metric mae rose.jpg reconstruct.jpg difference.png</span><span class='crtout'>Image: rose.jpg <br/> |
| Channel distortion: MAE <br/> |
| red: 2282.91 (0.034835) <br/> |
| green: 1853.99 (0.0282901) <br/> |
| blue: 2008.67 (0.0306503) <br/> |
| all: 1536.39 (0.0234439) <br/></span></p><p>Or, if you just want the red channel distortion, use this command:</p> |
| |
| <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>compare -channel red -metric PSNR rose.jpg reconstruct.jpg difference.png</span><span class='crtout'>19.63</span></p> |
| <p>Or, if you just want the overall image distortion, use this command:</p> |
| |
| <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>compare -metric PSNR rose.jpg reconstruct.jpg difference.png</span><span class='crtout'>28.31</span></p> |
| <p>If the reconstructed image is a subimage of the image, the compare program returns the best match offset. In addition, it returns a similarity image such that an exact match location is completely white and if none of the pixels match, black, otherwise some gray level in-between:</p> |
| |
| <p class='crt'><span class="crtprompt"> $magick> </span><span class='crtin'>compare -metric RMSE -subimage-search logo.png wizard.jpg similarity.gif</span><span class='crtout'>85.05 (0.00129778) @ 353,157</span></p> |
| <p>You can find additional examples of using <kbd>compare</kbd> in <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/?ca=dnt-428">Graphics from the Command Line</a>. Further discussion is available in <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf2/?ca=dgr-lnxw15GraphicsLine">More Graphics from the Command Line</a> and <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/">Examples of ImageMagick Usage</a>.</p> |
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| <h2><a id="options"></a>Option Summary</h2> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p>The <kbd>compare</kbd> command recognizes these options. Click on an option to get more details about how that option works.</p> |
| |
| <table class="doc"> |
| <tbody> |
| <tr> |
| <th align="left">Option</th> |
| <th align="left">Description</th> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy", |
| transparent, extract, background, or shape the alpha channel</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#authenticate">-authenticate <em class="option">value</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">decrypt image with this password</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#channel">-channel <em class="option">type</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">apply option to select image channels</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#colorspace">-colorspace <em class="option">type</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">set image colorspace</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#compose">-compose <em class="option">operator</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">set image composite operator</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#decipher">-decipher <em class="option">filename</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">convert cipher pixels to plain</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#debug">-debug <em class="option">events</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">display copious debugging information</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#define">-define <em class="option">format:option</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">define one or more image format options</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#density">-density <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">horizontal and vertical density of the image</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#depth">-depth <em class="option">value</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">image depth</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#disimilarity-threshold">-disimilarity-threshold <em class="option">value</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">maximum distortion for (sub)image match (default 0.2)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#encipher">-encipher <em class="option">filename</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">convert plain pixels to cipher pixels</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#extract">-extract <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">extract area from image</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#fuzz">-fuzz <em class="option">distance</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">colors within this distance are considered equal</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#help">-help</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">print program options</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#highlight-color">-highlight-color <em class="option">color</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">emphasize pixel differences with this color</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#identify">-identify</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">identify the format and characteristics of the image</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#interlace">-interlace <em class="option">type</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">type of image interlacing scheme</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#limit">-limit <em class="option">type value</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">pixel cache resource limit</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#log">-log <em class="option">format</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">format of debugging information</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#lowlight-color">-lowlight-color <em class="option">color</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">de-emphasize pixel differences with this color</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#metric">-metric <em class="option">type</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">measure differences between images with this metric</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#profile">-profile <em class="option">filename</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">add, delete, or apply an image profile</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#quality">-quality <em class="option">value</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#quantize">-quantize <em class="option">colorspace</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">reduce image colors in this colorspace</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#quiet">-quiet</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">suppress all warning messages</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#regard-warnings">-regard-warnings</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">pay attention to warning messages.</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#respect-parentheses">-respect-parentheses</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary.</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">horizontal and vertical sampling factor</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#seed">-seed <em class="option">value</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#set">-set <em class="option">attribute value</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">set an image attribute</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#size">-size <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">width and height of image</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#subimage-search">-subimage-search</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">search for subimage</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#synchronize">-synchronize</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">synchronize image to storage device</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#taint">-taint</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">mark the image as modified</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#transparent-color">-transparent-color <em class="option">color</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">transparent color</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#verbose">-verbose</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">print detailed information about the image</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#version">-version</a></td> |
| <td valign="top">print version information</td> |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel">-virtual-pixel <em class="option">method</em></a></td> |
| <td valign="top">access method for pixels outside the boundaries of the image</td> |
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