Rolling-Ball Background
Stanley Sternberg described this in 1983 for biomedical images. A virtual ball rolled under the intensity surface estimates the uneven background, which is subtracted to flatten illumination.
Spot it
- 01Flat even background
- 02Isolated bright features
- 03Dark subtracted gradients
Why it happens
Treating brightness as a height map, a ball of chosen radius is rolled beneath it; its path gives the background, and subtracting it leaves only features smaller than the ball.
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