I just want to know what will the difference be if instead of using hough circle to detect a circle, I find a contour and using minEnclosed circle find the circle? Which one will be more accurate? As far as I can understand both of them should give me the same thing. Can anyone help clarify
minEnclosed circle will enclose all outlier points in your connected component (blob or edge) while Hough circle searches for the best fit using voting algorithm.
So for searching circles; Hough circle is more accurate.
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I'm trying to use Hough circle detection method to find all the circle as shown in the image(shown in image 1 and 2). Initially, I used canny and findContour method (shown in image 3). I'm still unsure which method will be more suitable.The problem with the canny and findContour method was that it didn't find all the circles as well as getting lot of noise. But when using the Hough circle detection, the circle is sometimes catching the outer perimeter instead of the inner as shown in image 2.
The canny+findcontour methods finds the circle contour well but has a lot of noise whereas Hough circle works well but the circles sometimes blends with the outer circle.
Hough circle
Hough circle-zoomed in
canny + findcontour method
I think you can get better results if you pre-process the image. First apply Otsu thresholding, if that doesn't work well use a manual value for threshold. After that use the cv.erode() function to get a crisp boundary. Then try to apply the Hough circle transform.
If performance is not an issue, another interesting thing would be to to look at Holistically Nested Edge Detection and then apply Hough circle transform.
Also have a look at the following:
https://www.learnopencv.com/filling-holes-in-an-image-using-opencv-python-c/
https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_tutorials/py_imgproc/py_watershed/py_watershed.html
Is there a way to detect shapes inside a contour ? On the image you can see give way and no passage signs(triangle on top of circle). Is there a way to detect the circle from this contour? Triangle is easy because of the inner triangle but I cant figure out how to get the circle.
Take a look at Hough Circle Transform.
It is used to detect circles.
Relevant link: http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/imgproc/imgtrans/hough_circle/hough_circle.html
I have lots of curve But curves should completed to circle How can I do this process with hough circle I tried this method but I cant get a result
Detect semi-circle in opencv
My image is here:
Hough circles is the only way to do this.
The image is noisy but I suspect the problem is that there are very few points and you are trying a wide range of radii. This means that the Hough probability for each circle is very low.
Do you know what the radii should be? If you do try a reduced radius range.
If not I would run the image with a set of small radii ranges and see which produce any result
I have an image with a equilateral triangle and a rectangle:
And I want to detect 3 corner of the triangle only. I follow the OpenCV Harris corner detector tutorial I see that all the corner-point of the triangle have the threshold = 80 (when all the 4 corner-point of the rectangle threshold = 255). But I did not find the link between threshold and degree.
How can I find the corner that in the range of [55,65] degree, for example?
Here is the output Mat http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=qNidEAG0
P/s: I very new to CV, hope you can give some more detail!
It seems that I found possible solution. I've implemented it on Mathematica and able to explain basic steps.
Use find corners operator and take strongest corners. Use Harris operator.
Find contours (cv::FindContours).
For each corner in each contour draw a circle and find point of intersection between circle and contour. There is no ready function for it in OpenCV and you should implement it yourself.
Now for each corner you have coordinates of three points: corner, and two points on sides of contour. It is enough to evaluate angles using dot product:
Result:
I have no background in computer vision, but I was curious to know how I could use OpenCV library to achieve the following:
I have a jar of spare buttons, assorted in colour, style and diameter. For the most part they are circular. I evenly scatter them on a piece of white paper, and under good lighting, take a fairly high resolution picture with your average digital camera. How would I got about slicing this image to grab each button individually as a separate object/image?
Thanks in advance.
Two possible ways:
1) Using the circle hough transform
You run some edge detector (canny/sobel) and then the circle hough transform. You'll get the circles.
2) Using contours
Seperate the button and background using thresholding. Detect contours in this thresholded image and you have the buttons!
Articles that might help:
Contours: http://aishack.in/tutorials/an-introduction-to-contours/
Thresholding: http://aishack.in/tutorials/thresholding/
Hough circles: http://aishack.in/tutorials/hough-circles-in-opencv/
Disclaimer: Those are links to my website.
I think the simplest thing you could try is: run the Canny edge detector and apply a Hough transform to detect circles and generate a separate image from each of the circles.
I've been doing some dish recognition and it worked pretty good. do this:
Do some thresholding (buttons should be shiner than background) to leave only the buttons,
then cvFindContours
for each contour:
run cvFitEllipse, it will return you both axis (a,b) of the fitted ellipse.
check that the area of an ellipse PIab is similar to the Area of the contour using cvContourArea and also that both axis are similar a = b. (this will leave only circles)
then you can do whatever you need.
printContour, using cvPrintContour, use cvMinAreaRect2 to get button bounding box, etc
Hough transform is also possible but it is quite more expensive.