Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
I am a begginer in image processing, and a begginer with the library imagemagick. While I do have some experience, I wanted to ask what is channel distortion in image processing.
taken from the imagemagick website, in the "compare" command section:
In addition to the visual interpretation of the difference in an image and its reconstruction, we report a mathematical measure of the difference:
"Distortion" is another word for "difference". The number in parentheses eg (0.034835) tells us how much difference there is: 0.0 means no difference, 1.0 means totally different.
"-metric MAE" (see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... php#metric) calculates the mean of the absolute differences of pixel values. It calculates this for individual RGB channels, and for all the channels together.