Added a loop to get the channels and tiles for each alternate image

Added some loops to get the channels for the alternate images. Then this list of channels from each alternate image gets sent to the processChannel function. Over there, there is a loop to create a list of the DFTs of each of the alternate images. I also modified the function signature of processChannel and commented out the code additions in processChannel since some of it is not complete yet.

src/merge.cpp

@@ -419,7 +419,25 @@ std::pair<double, double> merge::getNoiseParams( int ISO, \
             //we should be getting the individual channel in the same place where we call the processChannel function with the reference channel in its arguments
             //possibly we could add another argument in the processChannel function which is the channel_i for the alternate image. maybe using a loop to cover all the other images
 
-            cv::Mat merged_channel = processChannel(burst_images, alignments, channel_i, lambda_shot, lambda_read);
+            //create list of channel_i of alternate images:
+            std::vector<cv::Mat> alternate_channel_i_list;
+            for (int j = 0; j < burst_images.num_images; j++) {
+                if (j != burst_images.reference_image_idx) {
+
+                    //get alternate image
+                    cv::Mat alt_image = burst_images.bayer_images_pad[j];
+                    std::vector<ushort> alt_img_channel = getChannels(alt_image); //get channel array from alternate image
+                    cv::Mat alt_channel_i(alt_image.rows / 2, alt_image.cols / 2, CV_16U, alt_img_channel[i].data());
+
+                    alternate_channel_i_list.push_back(alt_channel_i)
+                }
+            }
+            
+            /////
+
+            //cv::Mat merged_channel = processChannel(burst_images, alignments, channel_i, lambda_shot, lambda_read);
+
+            cv::Mat merged_channel = processChannel(burst_images, alignments, channel_i, alternate_channel_i_list, lambda_shot, lambda_read);
             // cv::imwrite("merged" + std::to_string(i) + ".jpg", merged_channel);
 
             // Put channel raw data back to channels
@@ -528,6 +546,7 @@ std::pair<double, double> merge::getNoiseParams( int ISO, \
     cv::Mat merge::processChannel(hdrplus::burst& burst_images, \
         std::vector<std::vector<std::vector<std::pair<int, int>>>>& alignments, \
         cv::Mat channel_image, \
+        std::vector<cv::Mat> alternate_channel_i_list,\
         float lambda_shot, \
         float lambda_read) {
         // Get tiles of the reference image
@@ -555,43 +574,50 @@ std::pair<double, double> merge::getNoiseParams( int ISO, \
         //4. temporal factor
         //return: merged image patches dft
         
-        /*
+        
         
         //tile_size = TILE_SIZE;
-        double temporal_factor = 8 //8 by default
+        /*
+        double temporal_factor = 8.0 //8 by default
 
         double temporal_noise_scaling = (pow(TILE_SIZE,2) * (1.0/16*2))*temporal_factor;
 
         //start calculating the merged image tiles fft
      
-        for (int i = 0;i < burst_images.num_images; i++) {
-            if (i != burst_images.reference_image_idx) {
         
-            }
-        }
-        //sample of 0th image
-        altername_image = burst_images.bayer_images_pad[0]
+        //get the tiles of the alternate image as a list
 
-        //get the tiles of the alternate image
-        std::vector<cv::Mat> alternate_image_tiles = getReferenceTiles(channel_image);
+        std::vector<std::vector<cv::Mat>> alternate_channel_i_tile_list; //list of alt channel tiles
+        std::vector<std::vector<cv::Mat>> alternate_tiles_DFT_list; //list of alt channel tiles
 
-        //get the dft of the alternate image
-        std::vector<cv::Mat> alternate_tiles_DFT;
-        for (auto alt_tile : alternate_tiles_DFT) {
+        for (auto alt_img_channel : alternate_channel_i_list) {
+            std::vector<ushort> alt_img_channel_tile = getReferenceTiles(alt_img_channel); //get tiles from alt image
+            alternate_channel_i_tile_list.push_back(alt_img_channel_tile)
+
+            std::vector<cv::Mat> alternate_tiles_DFT_list;
+            for (auto alt_tile : alt_img_channel_tile) {
                 cv::Mat alt_tile_DFT;
                 alt_tile.convertTo(alt_tile_DFT, CV_32F);
                 cv::dft(alt_tile_DFT, alt_tile_DFT, cv::DFT_SCALE | cv::DFT_COMPLEX_OUTPUT);
-            alternate_tiles_DFT.push_back(alt_tile_DFT);
+                alternate_tiles_DFT_list.push_back(alt_tile_DFT);
             }
+            alternate_tiles_DFT_list.push_back(alternate_tiles_DFT);
+        }
+
+        //get the dft of the alternate image
+        //std::vector<cv::Mat> alternate_tiles_DFT;
+        
 
 
 
-        std::vector<cv::Mat> tile_differences = reference_tiles_DFT - alternate_tiles_DFT;
-        std::vector<cv::Mat>  tile_sq_asolute_diff = tile_differences; //tile_differences.real**2 + tile_differnce.imag**2; //also tile_dist
+        std::vector<cv::Mat> tile_differences = reference_tiles_DFT - alternate_tiles_DFT_list;
+        std::vector<cv::Mat>  tile_sq_asolute_diff = tile_differences; //squared absolute difference is tile_differences.real**2 + tile_differnce.imag**2; //also tile_dist
+
+        //find the squared absolute difference across all the tiles
 
         std::vector<cv::Mat>  A = tile_sq_asolute_diff/(tile_sq_asolute_diff+noise_variance)
 
-        std::vector<cv::Mat> merged_image_tiles_fft = alternate_tiles_DFT + A * tile_differences;
+        std::vector<cv::Mat> merged_image_tiles_fft = alternate_tiles_DFT_list + A * tile_differences;
 
         //use merged_image_tiles_fft into part 4.3
 
@@ -621,8 +647,8 @@ std::pair<double, double> merge::getNoiseParams( int ISO, \
         
         //apply the cosineWindow2D over the merged_channel_tiles_spatial and reconstruct the image
 
-        */
         
+        */
 
         // 4.4 Cosine Window Merging
         // Process tiles through 2D cosine window