MV Topography DirectShow Filter

The MontiVision Topography filter generates a topography map from the current video frame. The video frames is downsamled and upsampled using a gaussian 5x5 filter kernel up to factor 16. The number of output grey levels can be limited in order to generate different topographies.

 

File: Topography.ax
CLSID: CLSID_MVTopography

 

Supported Interfaces

IMVTopography

IMVHistogram

IMVHistogram2

IMVHistogram3

IMVFilterData

IMVAbout

IMVFilterInfo

 

Supported COM Events

The filter supports following events through the IMVFilterEvents interface. Look at the filter events page for more information.

Event

Value

Description
MV_ALGORITHM_START_EVENT

0

A filter starts processing a video frame or sample.
MV_ALGORITHM_END_EVENT

1

A filter finishes processing a video frame or sample.

 

MV Topography Property Page

Uses the IMVTopography interface to setup the filter.

MontiVision Topography DirectShow Filter Property Page

Scale down by factor Downscaling and upscaling by factor 0, 2, 4, 8 or 16. The higher the factor, the more the video frame is smoothed.
Number of output grey levels The number of output grey levels used to generate the topography.
Invert output image If checked, the resulting output image is inverted.