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HoughCircles detecting arches.

asked 2019-08-13 13:58:12 -0600

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updated 2019-08-13 14:34:16 -0600

berak gravatar image

Greetings!

With the below C-code I'm detecting arches within an image with 2 arches. I'm using opencv-4.1.0 on a windows-10 machine, if this matters.

Using the parameters

int dp          = 3;     // The inverse ratio of resolution;

int min_dist    = 1000;  // Minimum distance between detected centers

int upper_canny = 65;    // Upper threshold for the internal Canny edge detector

int th_center   = 85;    // Threshold for center detection

int min_radius  = 1000;

int max_radius  = 0;

I find 5 circles and they outline more or less accurately the arc.

Playing with dp, and th_center I get different results.

What wolud be an appropriate approach to get unambiguous results?

Thanks for hints

Wolf

#include <windows.h>

#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    char ImageName[256]={0};
    int big_h=1024*8;
    int big_w=1280, h=550;
    int cx=(1280/2)-(big_w/2);
    int cy=big_h-h;
    cv::Rect roi(cx, 0, big_w, h);
    cv::Mat input, filter, gray, canny;
    cv::Mat big_gray(big_h, big_w, CV_8U);

    strcpy(ImageName, "D:/CircleTestImage03.jpg");
    // Read image
    input = cv::imread(ImageName, cv::IMREAD_COLOR);
    if (!input.data ) {
        printf("Image '%s' not found\n", ImageName);
        return(-1);
    }

    // Convert to gray
    cv::cvtColor(input(roi), gray, cv::COLOR_BGR2GRAY);
    cv::imshow("gray", gray);

    // Reduce the noise avoiding false circle detection
    cv::GaussianBlur(gray, gray, cv::Size(9, 9), 2, 2);
    cv::imshow("Blur", gray);

    // Place gray to bottom of big_gray allowing center finding of bog circeles.
    // Otherwise no arc will be found.
    gray.copyTo(big_gray(cv::Rect(0,cy, big_w, gray.rows)));

    int dp          = 3;                       // The inverse ratio of resolution;
    int min_dist    = 1000;                    // Minimum distance between detected centers
    int upper_canny = 65;                      // Upper threshold for the internal Canny edge detector
    int th_center   = 85;                      // Threshold for center detection
    int min_radius  = 1000;
    int max_radius  = 0;

    // Compute canny, info only
    cv::Canny(gray, canny, upper_canny, upper_canny/2);
    cv::imshow("canny", canny);

    std::vector<cv::Vec3f> circles;         // x, y, r
    HoughCircles(big_gray, circles, cv::HOUGH_GRADIENT,
                        dp, min_dist, upper_canny, th_center, min_radius, max_radius);
    // Draw circles
    for (int i = 0; i < (int)circles.size(); i++ ) {
        // coordinates of outline within input framre
        circles[i][0] += cx;
        circles[i][1] -= cy;
        cv::Point center(cvRound(circles[i][0]), cvRound(circles[i][1]));
        int radius = cvRound(circles[i][2]);
        printf("Circle #%d dp=%d x=%d y=%d r=%d\n", i, dp, center.x, center.y, radius);
        cv::circle(input, center, radius, CV_RGB(255,0,0), 2, 8, 0 );
    }

    cv::imshow("input", input); cv::waitKey(1);

    printf("Push key to finish.\n");
    cv::waitKey(-1);

    return 0;
}

C:\fakepath\CircleTestImage03.jpg

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We have found hough circles to be unreliable and sensitive to its input parameters. Our preferred method is to use OpenCV's line iterator. Normally we set up radial line iterators from some assumed or detected center and look for pixel intensity transitions from light to dark or dark to light. In your case, you could use vertical line iterators and look for 2 intensity transitions.

Chris gravatar imageChris ( 2019-08-14 09:02:12 -0600 )edit

I can concur that the hough circles is highly sensitive to the input parameters for each specific situation. Unless you have a very constrained setup and want to spent time in the optimal configuration, I would look for alternative solutions as proposed above by @Chris.

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2019-08-19 09:12:13 -0600 )edit

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answered 2019-08-29 02:55:36 -0600

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Thanks for your hints;

It works good for the provided example.

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