Trouble using threshold() function in opencv

asked 2016-06-17 03:07:25 -0600

Akash Garg gravatar image

I am trying to segment input image using watershed method. In that i am using threshold(), however my program gets aborted with the following error on the terminal unsupported format or combination of formats () in cv::threshold The format of the function used is threshold(bw, bw, 40, 255, THRESH_BINARY); where bw is the binarised image in grayscale form.

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"where bw is the binarised image in grayscale form."

maybe your Mat isn't grayscale, or empty ? please check: cerr << bw.type() << " " << bw.channels() << " " << bw.size() << endl;

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2016-06-17 03:27:05 -0600 )edit

the o/p of the above command comes out to be 22 3 [259 x 194]

Akash Garg gravatar imageAkash Garg ( 2016-06-17 03:47:47 -0600 )edit

bw.convertTo(bw, CV_8UC1); gives output 16 3 [259 x 194]. Why is that the channel even now remain 3?

Akash Garg gravatar imageAkash Garg ( 2016-06-17 03:53:30 -0600 )edit
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Try to use cvtColor().

Missing gravatar imageMissing ( 2016-06-17 03:56:14 -0600 )edit

convertTo() does not change the channel count, only the depth. (so, yes, cvtColor(src,dst,COLOR_BGR2GRAY))

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2016-06-17 04:10:06 -0600 )edit

okk thanks alot. But is there any way i can threshold a 3 channel image? Converting BGR 2 Gray before using threshold() and then converting it back to BGR, will it work?

Akash Garg gravatar imageAkash Garg ( 2016-06-18 02:33:06 -0600 )edit

no, you can't get back color from a grayscale image ..

what are you trying to achieve ?

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2016-06-18 07:05:25 -0600 )edit

Thank u so much. Got it now. GRAY2BGR will only convert single channel image to 3 channel. Earlier I thought it wud convert gray to color image!!!

Akash Garg gravatar imageAkash Garg ( 2016-06-18 07:55:49 -0600 )edit

I am basically writing an image segmentation code & my code will work only if i can make the background black objects's color other than black(then i am using watershed()). Can u suggest any way to make background black?

Akash Garg gravatar imageAkash Garg ( 2016-06-18 08:00:35 -0600 )edit
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