OpenCV document detection FIX - opencv

Question

I need something like here OpenCV C++/Obj-C: Detecting a sheet of paper / Square Detection
My code is working like a charm when my background and foreground is not the same, but if my background is almost the same color as the document it can't work anymore.
Here is the picture with a beige bg + almost beige document what is not working.. Can somebody help in this how can I fix this code?
https://i.imgur.com/81DrIIK.jpg
and the code is here:
vector<Point> getPoints(Mat image)
{
int width = image.size().width;
int height = image.size().height;
Mat image_proc = image.clone();
vector<vector<Point> > squares;
// blur will enhance edge detection
Mat blurred(image_proc);
medianBlur(image_proc, blurred, 9);
Mat gray0(blurred.size(), CV_8U), gray;
vector<vector<Point> > contours;
// find squares in every color plane of the image
for (int c = 0; c < 3; c++)
{
int ch[] = {c, 0};
mixChannels(&blurred, 1, &gray0, 1, ch, 1);
// try several threshold levels
const int threshold_level = 2;
for (int l = 0; l < threshold_level; l++)
{
// Use Canny instead of zero threshold level!
// Canny helps to catch squares with gradient shading
if (l == 0)
{
Canny(gray0, gray, 10, 20, 3); //
// Dilate helps to remove potential holes between edge segments
dilate(gray, gray, Mat(), Point(-1,-1));
}
else
{
gray = gray0 >= (l+1) * 255 / threshold_level;
}
// Find contours and store them in a list
findContours(gray, contours, CV_RETR_LIST, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE);
// Test contours
vector<Point> approx;
for (size_t i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++)
{
// approximate contour with accuracy proportional
// to the contour perimeter
approxPolyDP(Mat(contours[i]), approx, arcLength(Mat(contours[i]), true)*0.02, true);
// Note: absolute value of an area is used because
// area may be positive or negative - in accordance with the
// contour orientation
if (approx.size() == 4 &&
fabs(contourArea(Mat(approx))) > 1000 &&
isContourConvex(Mat(approx)))
{
double maxCosine = 0;
for (int j = 2; j < 5; j++)
{
double cosine = fabs(angle(approx[j%4], approx[j-2], approx[j-1]));
maxCosine = MAX(maxCosine, cosine);
}
if (maxCosine < 0.3)
squares.push_back(approx);
}
}
}
double largest_area = -1;
int largest_contour_index = 0;
for(int i=0;i<squares.size();i++)
{
double a =contourArea(squares[i],false);
if(a>largest_area)
{
largest_area = a;
largest_contour_index = i;
}
}
__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_VERBOSE, APPNAME, "Scaning size() %d",squares.size());
vector<Point> points;
if(squares.size() > 0)
{
points = squares[largest_contour_index];
}
else
{
points.push_back(Point(0, 0));
points.push_back(Point(width, 0));
points.push_back(Point(0, height));
points.push_back(Point(width, height));
}
return points;
}
}
Thanks

Answer 1

You can do threshold operation in S space of HSV-color-space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV#General_approach
I just split the channels of BGR and HSV as follow. More operations are needed.