Accelerating bitmap grayscale conversion, is OpenMP an option in C#?

please help me to make this code parallel using openmp this code is run on button click and the text box is 128

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace IMG
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    string path = "";
    public void openimage()
    {
        if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
        {
            path = openFileDialog1.FileName;
            Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics();
            g.Clear(this.BackColor);
            Bitmap curBitmap = new Bitmap(path);
            g.DrawImage(curBitmap, 200, 220, 200, 200);
        }
    }
    Bitmap bm;
    Bitmap gs;
    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (path == "")
        {
            openimage();
        }

        //mack image gray scale
        Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics();
        g.Clear(this.BackColor);
        // Create a Bitmap object
        bm = new Bitmap(path);
        // Draw image with no effects
        g.DrawImage(bm, 200, 220, 200, 200);


        gs = new Bitmap(bm.Width, bm.Height);
        for (int i = 0; i < bm.Width; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < bm.Height; j++)
            {
                Color c = bm.GetPixel(i, j);
                int y = (int)(0.3 * c.R + 0.59 * c.G + 0.11 * c.B);
                gs.SetPixel(i, j, Color.FromArgb(y, y, y));
            }
        }

        // Draw image with no effects
        g.DrawImage(gs, 405, 220, 200, 200);


        for (int i = 0; i < gs.Width; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < gs.Height; j++)
            {
                Color c = gs.GetPixel(i, j);
                int y1 = 0;

                if (c.R >= Convert.ToInt16(textBox19.Text))
                    y1 = 255;
                bm.SetPixel(i, j, Color.FromArgb(y1, y1, y1));

            }
        }
        g.DrawImage(bm, new Rectangle(610, 220, 200, 200), 0, 0, bm.Width, bm.Height, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
        // Dispose of objects
        gs.Dispose();

        g.Dispose();
    }
 }
}

please help me as soon as u can i believe in this site and all programmers here...

Solution 1:

You'll hit a couple of speed-bumps if OpenMP is on your radar. OpenMP is a multi-threading library for unmanaged C/C++, it requires compiler support to be effective. Not an option in C#.

Let's take a step back. What you've got now is as bad as you can possibly get. Get/SetPixel() is dreadfully slow. A major step would be to use Bitmap.LockBits(), it gives you an IntPtr to the bitmap bits. You can party on those bits with an unsafe byte pointer. That will be at least an order of magnitude faster.

Let's take another step back, you are clearly writing code to convert a color image to a gray-scale image. Color transforms are natively supported by GDI+ through the ColorMatrix class. That code could look like this:

public static Image ConvertToGrayScale(Image srce) {
  Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(srce.Width, srce.Height);
  using (Graphics gr = Graphics.FromImage(bmp)) {
    var matrix = new float[][] {
        new float[] { 0.299f, 0.299f, 0.299f, 0, 0 },
        new float[] { 0.587f, 0.587f, 0.587f, 0, 0 },
        new float[] { 0.114f, 0.114f, 0.114f, 0, 0 },
        new float[] { 0,      0,      0,      1, 0 },
        new float[] { 0,      0,      0,      0, 1 }
    };
    var ia = new System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageAttributes();
    ia.SetColorMatrix(new System.Drawing.Imaging.ColorMatrix(matrix));
    var rc = new Rectangle(0, 0, srce.Width, srce.Height);
    gr.DrawImage(srce, rc, 0, 0, srce.Width, srce.Height, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, ia);
    return bmp;
  }
}

Credit to Bob Powell: How to convert a colour image to grayscale for the above code.