For practice, I am slowly implementing image processing concepts with the FFT, and I have started with zero-padding. The result is supposed to rescale the size of the image (in this case, double the width and height), but my output is washed out. I was thinking that it had to do with my normalization after the ifft, since the width and height had changed after the padding, but nothing I have tried has produced a better image. Any ideas on where I may be scaling the data incorrectly, or quick fixes to increase the power of my output? Before I save my image, I scale all the pixel data to a range between 0 and 255, but it almost seems like the output is between 128 and 255 instead.
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Zero-padded FFT:
IFFT:
I should have tested some more before posting. All I was doing wrong was scaling the image between 0 and 255 one too many times. This messed up the data, especially since my scaling function uses a logarithmic scale to better display the fft.