---
title: kvImageEdgeExtend
framework: accelerate
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: accelerate/kvimageedgeextend
---

# kvImageEdgeExtend

A flag that extends the edges of the image infinitely.

## Declaration

```swift
var kvImageEdgeExtend: Int { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion When you set this flag, vImage replicates the edges of the image outward. It repeats the top row of the image infinitely above the image, the bottom row infinitely below the image, the first column infinitely to the left of the image, and the last column infinitely  to the right. For spaces that are diagonal to the image, vImage uses the value of the corresponding corner pixel. For example, for all pixels that are both above and to the left of the image, the upper-leftmost pixel of the image (the pixel at row 0, column 0) supplies the value. In this way, vImage assigns every pixel location outside the image some value. You can set this flag for convolution and geometry functions. The morphology functions do not use this flag because they do not use pixels outside the image in any of their calculations.

## See Also

### Edging Modes

- [kvImageCopyInPlace](accelerate/kvimagecopyinplace.md)
- [kvImageBackgroundColorFill](accelerate/kvimagebackgroundcolorfill.md)
- [kvImageTruncateKernel](accelerate/kvimagetruncatekernel.md)