“unrecognized selector” when attempting to access CIFilter's outputImage

Question

I\'m experimenting with Core Image (on OS X, 10.7.3) for the first time and am running into a brick wall. I\'m certain this is something silly I\'m doing and just need some

Answer 1

I believe your extents are the culprit (however strange it is). When I change the extents to be a CIVector* it works.

NSURL *imageURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"/Users/david/Desktop/video.png"];
CIImage *inputImage = [CIImage imageWithContentsOfURL:imageURL];
CIFilter *filter = [CIFilter filterWithName:@"CIAreaAverage"];
[filter setValue:inputImage forKey:kCIInputImageKey];
CGRect inputExtent = [inputImage extent];
CIVector *extent = [CIVector vectorWithX:inputExtent.origin.x
                                       Y:inputExtent.origin.y
                                       Z:inputExtent.size.width
                                       W:inputExtent.size.height];
[filter setValue:extent forKey:kCIInputExtentKey];
CIImage *outputImage = [filter valueForKey:@"outputImage"];

[inputImage extent] returns an CGRect, but apparently a CIVector* works better.

Answer 2

Here's how I made CIAreaAverage work in an iOS app:

CGRect inputExtent = [self.inputImage extent];
CIVector *extent = [CIVector vectorWithX:inputExtent.origin.x
                                       Y:inputExtent.origin.y
                                       Z:inputExtent.size.width
                                       W:inputExtent.size.height];
CIImage* inputAverage = [CIFilter filterWithName:@"CIAreaAverage" keysAndValues:@"inputImage", self.inputImage, @"inputExtent", extent, nil].outputImage;

//CIImage* inputAverage = [self.inputImage imageByApplyingFilter:@"CIAreaMinimum" withInputParameters:@{@"inputImage" : inputImage, @"inputExtent" : extent}];
EAGLContext *myEAGLContext = [[EAGLContext alloc] initWithAPI:kEAGLRenderingAPIOpenGLES2];
NSDictionary *options = @{ kCIContextWorkingColorSpace : [NSNull null] };
CIContext *myContext = [CIContext contextWithEAGLContext:myEAGLContext options:options];

size_t rowBytes = 32 ; // ARGB has 4 components
uint8_t byteBuffer[rowBytes]; // Buffer to render into

[myContext render:inputAverage toBitmap:byteBuffer rowBytes:rowBytes bounds:[inputAverage extent] format:kCIFormatRGBA8 colorSpace:nil];

const uint8_t* pixel = &byteBuffer[0];
float red   = pixel[0] / 255.0;
float green = pixel[1] / 255.0;
float blue  = pixel[2] / 255.0;
NSLog(@"%f, %f, %f\n", red, green, blue);


return outputImage;
}
@end

The output will look something like this:

2015-05-23 15:58:20.935 CIFunHouse[2400:489913] 0.752941, 0.858824, 0.890196
2015-05-23 15:58:20.981 CIFunHouse[2400:489913] 0.752941, 0.858824, 0.890196