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Finding overlap of two objects in an image using OpenCV

asked 2018-08-18 04:33:43 -0600

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updated 2018-08-18 04:34:31 -0600

I have this image and would like to find the intersection points of the two objects ( blue vector and red vector ). Unfortunately, the find_intersection method between the vectors from the c++ standard library returns a size 0 because ofcourse there in no overlap of the edges where the two objects meet.

So, is there an elegant way to find the intersecting part of the blue and the red part using OpenCV? Maybe using findContours or CannyEdge or any convolving filter? I am not sure, how I should proceed.image description

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WHY is there a border between the regions ?

(there is no real overlap here)

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2018-08-18 06:20:49 -0600 )edit

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answered 2018-08-18 07:09:14 -0600

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here's an idea:

  • make a mask for the blue and the red part using inRange
  • dilate both masks (make the blobs larger), until they start to overlap (they don't currently, that's the problem)
  • AND the masks to find the overlap
  • (optionally: erode the result again, or apply thinning)
  • use findNonZero() to retrieve the locations for the white overlap pixels

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and some code:

Mat mask_red, mask_blue;

inRange(ocv, Scalar(0,0,250), Scalar(0,0,255), mask_red);
inRange(ocv, Scalar(250,250,0), Scalar(255,255,0), mask_blue);
for (int i=0; i<5; i++) {
    dilate(mask_blue, mask_blue, Mat());
    dilate(mask_red, mask_red, Mat());
}
Mat final = mask_blue & mask_red;
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