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findcontours finds too many contours.

Is it normal that find contours finds so many contours where there are obviously only 3 contours ? image description

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The code is :

Mat image;
    vector<vector<Point> > contours;
    vector<Vec4i> hierarchy;
    image = imread(argv[1], 0);   // Read the file
    findContours(image, contours, hierarchy, CV_RETR_TREE, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE, Point(0, 0));
    cout << contours.size();


    RNG rng(12345);
    Mat drawing = Mat::zeros(image.size(), CV_8UC3);
    for (int i = 0; i< contours.size(); i++)
    {
        Scalar color = Scalar(rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0, 255));
        drawContours(drawing, contours, i, color, 2, 8, hierarchy, 0, Point());
    }
    /// Show in a window
    namedWindow("Contours", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
    imshow("Contours", drawing);
namedWindow("Display window", WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);// Create a window for display.
    imshow("Display window", image);                   // Show our image inside it.