Conor Lawless

13 April 2017

Image analysis in Python: locating & visualising areas of an image that are in sharp focus

In this post I’ll demonstrate how to locate and highlight the areas of any digital image that are in focus. In microscopy and macro photography, being able to identify image segments that are in focus is important because of the narrow depth-of-field achievable using wide apertures. If you need to construct a high resolution image of a very small subject, you may have to capture a stack of several images (often called a z-stack), each focussed on a different slice of the subject. ... Read more