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Find the number of white pixels in contour

asked 2015-04-18 06:16:21 -0600

Zain ul abdeen gravatar image

updated 2015-04-20 05:07:57 -0600

berak gravatar image

I have an image and I'm trying to find the filled circles inside image (MCQ's).

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I have found all contours and when drawing its drawing the circles but now I don't know how to find the number of white pixels inside contour. Image is in binary pealse suggest something. Thanks

java.util.List<MatOfPoint> contours_crop = new ArrayList<MatOfPoint>();
Imgproc.findContours(crop.clone(), contours_crop, new Mat() ,Imgproc.RETR_EXTERNAL , Imgproc.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE);

//Imgproc.cvtColor(crop, crop, Imgproc.COLOR_GRAY2BGR);
double noPixels = Core.countNonZero(contours_crop.get(3));
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Pixels:"+noPixels, 10000).show();
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nope, you can't use countNonZero with contours, only with images.

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2015-04-18 07:28:16 -0600 )edit

so what @berak is trying to say

  1. Based on your contour image, black out all pixels outside the countour.
  2. Then apply a countNonZero on the given image.
StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2015-04-20 05:01:19 -0600 )edit
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i added the image from the crossposted SO question for clarity. again, it seems to be about finding the filled circles. so my proposal would be either:

  • get the boundingRect()
  • countNonZero() on the roi of that

or:

  • find the center of the contour (either from boundingRect() or from moments())
  • check pixel value at that point

(this will only work on convex objects, like the circles, but probably fail on e.g. the '1' there)

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2015-04-20 05:09:15 -0600 )edit
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Getting the boundingrect() and then counting non zero helped :)

Zain ul abdeen gravatar imageZain ul abdeen ( 2015-04-20 14:06:19 -0600 )edit

Hello Zain can you share the solution here also so that even I can get some help out of it Thanks

Abhishek100 gravatar imageAbhishek100 ( 2017-07-01 23:43:10 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-04-20 05:24:52 -0600

sgarrido gravatar image

updated 2015-04-20 05:59:56 -0600

You can use pointPolygonTest() (java version) to determine which image pixels are inside a contour. Then you can count how many inner pixels are white.

To speed up the process you dont need to test all image pixels, only those inside the contour's bounding box.

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answered 2016-06-10 04:39:37 -0600

AsparaJoe gravatar image

updated 2016-06-10 04:43:37 -0600

If contourArea doesn't give you expected result, you can follow this approach:

  1. Copy the contour in a new empty Mat
  2. Apply countNonZero applied on the new submatrix and you will get the number of non-black pixel

        //1. Copy the contour in a new empty Mat
        Rect cRect = boundingRect(*it); //it is an iterator for your contours vector
        Mat subImg = dilatedImg(cRect);
        double cArea = countNonZero(subImg);
    

Note: if you doesn't have a binary image, you may need to threshold it before to count only the right pixels.

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answered 2015-04-20 10:12:02 -0600

Don't you have a method to retrieve size of the array list in Java? Here is how its done in C++:

    std::vector<cv::Vec4i> hierarchy;
    std::vector<std::vector<cv::Point> > contours;
    cv::Mat frame = something;
    cv::findContours(frame, contoursInt, hierarchyObj, CV_RETR_LIST, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE);

    for (unsigned int n = 0; n < contours.size(); n++)
    {
        int numOfPixels = countoursInt[n].size();
    }

numOfPixels has the number of pixels of each contour. Just do the equivalent in Java.

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Well the problem here is that you will just get the number of pixels, while he wants to see whether the pixel value is white or not to see if a dot is filled.

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2015-04-21 01:54:32 -0600 )edit
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It seems I totally misunderstood the question, then

Pedro Batista gravatar imagePedro Batista ( 2015-04-21 04:13:55 -0600 )edit
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answered 2015-04-18 07:20:56 -0600

cv::contourArea gives you ..... the area of a given contour

http://docs.opencv.org/modules/imgpro...

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I dont want area. I want pixels inside the contour

Zain ul abdeen gravatar imageZain ul abdeen ( 2015-04-18 08:14:50 -0600 )edit
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The area is calculated in pixels, so this would give you the number of pixels. But as far as I know, the cv::contourArea is just an approximation.

matman gravatar imagematman ( 2015-04-20 13:59:09 -0600 )edit

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