Finding contours in vector of connected points [closed]

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May be you can use this code :(class ImageInfoCV : public Mat)

if (im->statComposante==NULL)
    {
    im->statComposante = new cv::Mat*[im1->channels()]; 
    im->centreGComposante = new cv::Mat*[im1->channels()]; 
    im->contours = new std::vector<std::vector<cv::Point> >[im1->channels()]; 
    im->arbreContour = new std::vector<cv::Vec4i> [im1->channels()]; 
    for (int i=0;i<im1->channels();i++)
        {
        im->statComposante[i] = new cv::Mat; 
        im->centreGComposante[i] = new cv::Mat; 
        }
    }
connectedComponentsWithStats(*im1, *im,*(im->statComposante[0]),*(im->centreGComposante[0]), paramOCV->intParam["connectivity"].valeur, CV_32S);
ImageInfoCV imCtr ;
im->copyTo(imCtr);
findContours(imCtr, *(im->contours),*im->arbreContour, cv::RETR_CCOMP, cv::CHAIN_APPROX_NONE, cv::Point(0,0));

I don't understand your question. The cv.:findContours function will already split a binary image into a vector of a vector of contour points (X-, Y- coordinates).

You have to differ between a data set of gray values (or binary values) and a set of X-, Y- coordiantes. The first one you get when you threshold an image e.g. with cv::Canny or cv::threshold. The second one you get with cv::findContour, which is applied after thresholding. There is also a function cv::connectedComponents which will split your image into a new image (with gray values) where every connected area will get an increasing value starting by 1.

So when you want to do blob analysis I recommend you to do a threshold and then findContour, after that you can calculate moments with cv::moments for example.

@matman ConnectedComponents stores the points of all connected pixels in a cluster, which is useful for other stuff I'm doing. I thought it would be nice to be able to find which of those points describes the contour of the blob without having to threshold again in the canny algorithm.

@LBerger It looks like there is a couple of lines missing in your code window. Could you edit your comment please?

I have change the code :

Mat imSrc;// It's a binary image your data
Mat imDst;// label image result
statComposante = new cv::Mat; 
centreGComposante = new cv::Mat; 
contours = new std::vector<std::vector<cv::Point> >; 
arbreContour = new std::vector<cv::Vec4i> ; 
connectedComponentsWithStats(imSrc, imDst,statComposante,centreGComposante, 8, CV_32S);
Mat imCtr ; 
imSrc.copyTo(imCtr);// find contours modify data 
findContours(imCtr, contours,arbreContour, cv::RETR_CCOMP, cv::CHAIN_APPROX_NONE, cv::Point(0,0));

You can use contour to plot all contour of your label image : contour[i] is contour of region with label i and all points are contour[i][0]...contour[i][contour[i].size()-1] You can use example opencv\samples\cpp\contours2.cpp

@LBerger I am currently using opencv-2.4.9 with a custom ConnectedComponents class. Your solution looks like it is using opencv-3. Is that correct?

Sorry I forget it I use OpenCV 3.0 dev

@LBerger I just compiled opencv-3. My application should be simple enough to be able to use opencv-3 without any hidden bugs...