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What is the best way to find bounding box for binary mask?

asked 2012-11-14 08:29:34 -0600

wl2776 gravatar image

updated 2020-11-30 01:01:39 -0600

I have a binary mask of an object and want to get its bounding rectangle. Function cv::boundingRect wants a vector of cv::Point, while I have a matrix.

I've written my own function, which reduces the binary mask with CV_REDUCE_MAX first to a column then to a row and finds leftmost and rightmost and topmost and bottommost non-zero elements.

The mask is strictly binary (0 and 1).

Is there any better way?

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When don't you put some index of max_x and max_y when you create the mask?

Can you describe how you create the mask?

Tran Thu Do gravatar imageTran Thu Do ( 2012-11-14 09:08:40 -0600 )edit

I don't create a mask, it is given to my code from outside. I don't know, how it is created. Probably, by hands.

wl2776 gravatar imagewl2776 ( 2012-11-16 02:31:33 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-09-12 07:50:31 -0600

updated 2015-09-12 14:01:30 -0600

Hi If you are having multiple objects or otherwise multiple contours in your image & you simply want the Bounding box of the overall mask you can easily find the Bounding box as follows!

Mat mSource_Bgr,mSource_Gray,mThreshold;
mSource_Bgr= imread(List_Files[i],1);
cvtColor(mSource_Bgr,mSource_Gray,COLOR_BGR2GRAY);
threshold(mSource_Gray,mThreshold,254,255,THRESH_BINARY_INV);

Mat Points;
findNonZero(mThreshold,Points);
Rect Min_Rect=boundingRect(Points);

//Here you can also use minAreaRect() also to find Rotated Rect.

rectangle(mSource_Bgr,Min_Rect.tl(),Min_Rect.br(),Scalar(0,255,0),2);

imshow("Result",mSource_Bgr);

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Threshold Mask

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Cropped Bounding Rect

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How to get individual boxes around each object? something like Floodfill? Thanks

Intoxica gravatar imageIntoxica ( 2017-10-02 17:04:36 -0600 )edit
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answered 2012-11-14 21:33:08 -0600

Gianluigi gravatar image

Try to use findContours then pass the findContours result into boundingRect

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I was thinking about it. Are you sure, it is a better way? I'll have to create a copy of the mask since findContours changes the image. Then, in case of a complex object, vector size and creation time will be significant.

wl2776 gravatar imagewl2776 ( 2012-11-16 02:34:35 -0600 )edit

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