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Get only a certain area out of an incoming image

asked 2013-04-10 20:59:23 -0600

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Hi all,

This is my first foray using OpenCV and C++. What I'm trying to do is I have a camera supplying continuous images, 640 x 480. What I want to do is get the lower right hand quadrant, the 4th, if you will, so a rectangle with corners at (340 x 240),(640 x 240),(340 x 480),(640 x 480), if you took the (0 x 0) point to be the bottom left corner of the entire image, if I put it all down correctly. I was trying to read through the function calls OpenCV has, and I think maybe getRectSubPix() might be what I'm looking for? Can anyone give me a definitive yes / no? Or, is there an easier / better way to pull a portion out of the incoming images?

Secondly, I could use the resize() function to then make this smaller area back into 640 x 480?

Thanks for looking at this. I hope I found the right solution and could use those function calls to do what I want to.

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answered 2013-04-11 01:14:23 -0600

updated 2013-04-11 01:15:09 -0600

If you want only a part of your image, consider using ROI (Region Of Interest):

Mat A = imread("myimage.jpg", CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR); // here we'll know the method used (allocate matrix)
Mat D (A, Rect(10, 10, 100, 100) ); // using a rectangle
Mat E = A(Range:all(), Range(1,3)); // using row and column boundaries

Like presented here. You can use the ROI image directly, the headers of D and E and different from A, but they are pointing to the same data.

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Will this working for video, not just singular images? imread() is just for images, correct?

Cyadd gravatar imageCyadd ( 2013-04-11 16:29:01 -0600 )edit
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The imread part is for image, but with VideoCapture you can retrieve a matrix too, and use the ROI: for D and E images, nothing change if you are using a video or an image.

Mathieu Barnachon gravatar imageMathieu Barnachon ( 2013-04-12 01:19:41 -0600 )edit

Well dang, thanks. I'll give it a try again on Monday when I'm back at school.

Cyadd gravatar imageCyadd ( 2013-04-13 22:50:32 -0600 )edit

Hey, thanks a bunch, after playing with it just a tad, I was able to pull a corner of the incoming image, and resize it.

Cyadd gravatar imageCyadd ( 2013-04-15 17:40:39 -0600 )edit

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