Filters as templates

filter can find sth in the sig.

1 1-D cross-correlation

you pull out a section of the original as the filter and do the correlation,you can get the peak at the location where you pull out the signal.
Reason:the position of the pos and neg signals are totally the same.

1D

matlab code

Note:normxcorr2() the comparison start where the third number overlap the first num in the sig.

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I bet you are itching to do this on yourself!Taks an template and image as input,and return an x and y coordinates where the template was found in the image.

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So can you use the template matching to do the stuff like finding the cracks and fissures in the metal components,?
No!Because that the templates matching can only be a satisfactory in the case when the appearance doesn't change a lot.

cite:

https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud810/lessons/3490398568/concepts/34996085510923