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Image subtraction weird effect [closed]

asked 2017-10-08 13:45:23 -0600

fatben gravatar image

updated 2017-10-09 01:56:00 -0600

Hi,

I have a problem subtracting background of the scene (image file taken from a video) from the next frames of the video. I provide code snippet:

    cv::absdiff(currentFrame, background, foreground);
    cv::threshold(foreground, foreground, 25, 255, cv::THRESH_BINARY);

I tried adjusting some parameters but the result is always something like this:

image description

===================== UPDATE =====================

Here are currentFrame and background:

image description

image description

How error like this could possibly be fixed?

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close date 2017-10-11 01:46:08.918122

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Which error? May be you can post currentFrame, background and foregrounds images

LBerger gravatar imageLBerger ( 2017-10-08 14:23:33 -0600 )edit
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That... might be correct. It looks like that's a transition between two scenes in a video. Look at the grid on the floor. And if each channel is being thresholded separately, that would explain the colors, which appear to be combinations of 0 and 255 values in each of the three channels.

Tetragramm gravatar imageTetragramm ( 2017-10-08 15:15:32 -0600 )edit

Ok, things to check.

You're doing absdiff into the Mat foregrounds, and the threshold on a Mat called foreground. Is that a typo or a bug?

Secondly, I diff those images and threshold and I get something much more reasonable, without all those vertical lines.

Tetragramm gravatar imageTetragramm ( 2017-10-08 17:42:23 -0600 )edit

Yes, it was a typo, I updated the code in the question. But it means that wasn't the problem.

fatben gravatar imagefatben ( 2017-10-09 02:00:24 -0600 )edit

Using this code (opencv 3.3-dev vs2015):

Mat foreground,background;
foreground = imread("15075018148975703.png", IMREAD_COLOR);
background = imread("15075018217250966.jpg", IMREAD_COLOR);
cv::absdiff(foreground, background, foreground);
cv::threshold(foreground, foreground, 25, 255, cv::THRESH_BINARY);
imshow("r", foreground);
waitKey();

I got this image : image description

LBerger gravatar imageLBerger ( 2017-10-09 02:29:38 -0600 )edit

Things to check: Check whether you load the images correctly. Try loading both as Grayscale images and check once. As pointed by @Tetragramm there looks a transition in the two scenes.

John_OpenCVdev gravatar imageJohn_OpenCVdev ( 2017-10-09 03:06:56 -0600 )edit

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answered 2017-10-10 17:29:13 -0600

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updated 2017-10-10 17:30:08 -0600

I solved the issue. It seems that it was a problem with conversion between Qt QImage and OpenCV Mat. So the issues were not really OpenCV related... But thank you for all your responses.

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