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How to enclose the irregular figure contour and fill it with with 5px dots in opencv using python?

This is my
I want to get this
but the problem is I am not able to enclose the contour and how should I add these dots?
Does Open cv have any such function to handle this?
So basically,
The first problem is how to enclose this image
Second, how to add Dots.
Thank you

Here is one way to do that in Python/OpenCV. However, I cannot close your dotted outline without connecting separate regions. But it will give you some idea how to proceed with most of what you want to do.
If you manually add a few more dots to your input image where there are large gaps, then the morphology kernel can be made smaller such that it can connected the regions without merging separate parts that should remain isolated.
Read the input
Convert to grayscale
Threshold to binary
Apply morphology close to try to close the dotted outline. Unfortunately it connected separate regions.
Get the external contours
Draw white filled contours on a black background as a mask
Draw a single black circle on a white background
Tile out the circle image to the size of the input
Mask the tiled circle image with the filled contour image
Save results
Input:
import cv2
import numpy as np
import math
# read input image
img = cv2.imread('island.png')
hh, ww = img.shape[:2]
# convert img to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# threshold
thresh = cv2.threshold(gray, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)[1]
# use morphology to close figure
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE, (35,35))
morph = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel, )
# find contours and bounding boxes
mask = np.zeros_like(thresh)
contours = cv2.findContours(morph, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
contours = contours[0] if len(contours) == 2 else contours[1]
for cntr in contours:
cv2.drawContours(mask, [cntr], 0, 255, -1)
# create a single tile as black circle on white background
circle = np.full((11,11), 255, dtype=np.uint8)
circle = cv2.circle(circle, (7,7), 3, 0, -1)
# tile out the tile pattern to the size of the input
numht = math.ceil(hh / 11)
numwd = math.ceil(ww / 11)
tiled_circle = np.tile(circle, (numht,numwd))
tiled_circle = tiled_circle[0:hh, 0:ww]
# composite tiled_circle with mask
result = cv2.bitwise_and(tiled_circle, tiled_circle, mask=mask)
# save result
cv2.imwrite("island_morph.jpg", morph)
cv2.imwrite("island_mask.jpg", mask)
cv2.imwrite("tiled_circle.jpg", tiled_circle)
cv2.imwrite("island_result.jpg", result)
# show images
cv2.imshow("morph", morph)
cv2.imshow("mask", mask)
cv2.imshow("tiled_circle", tiled_circle)
cv2.imshow("result", result)
cv2.waitKey(0)
Morphology connected image:
Contour Mask image:
Tiled circles:
Result:

drawcontours on different position

I would like to draw contours in the middle of a blank image. I don't know how to set the contour location to be drawn. this is the line I use.
cv2.drawContours(bimg, c, -1, 255, 1)
bimg is the blank image, c is the contour I've extracted from an image. I believe I can move the contour by manipulating c, but I don't understand how c is written actually

You can look at the official documentation of opencv for contours. This code can be used to find contours of an image threshold and draw them on a white background with red color.
img = cv2.imread('image_name.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
_,thresh1 = cv2.threshold(img,127,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
_, cnts, _ = cv2.findContours(mask,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
bgr = np.ones((img.shape[0], img.shape[1]), dtype= 'uint8')*255 #this creates a white background of the same size of input shape
cv2.drawContours(bgr, cnts, -1, (0,0,255), 1)

Filling in Circles in OpenCV

I've been struggling with this for a while. I've been trying to figure out some sort of a way in OpenCV in Python to fill in while circles in an image that's entirely black and white.
To be clear this image has been tresholded using adaptive thresholding but now I have these rings which I'd like to be able to fill in. Ideally whatever algorithm is used to fill in circles should be able for both sets of pictures I included.
If anyone could offer any guidance in this regard I'd greatly appreciate it.
Before Algorithm:
After Algorithm:
Before Algorithm:
After Algorithm:

A simple search in Google would have given you this article, which answers exactly your question.
I adopted that solution for your input:
import cv2
import numpy as np
# Read image
im_in = cv2.imread("circles.jpg", cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)
# Threshold
th, im_th = cv2.threshold(im_in, 127, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
# Copy the thresholded image
im_floodfill = im_th.copy()
# Mask used to flood filling.
# NOTE: the size needs to be 2 pixels bigger on each side than the input image
h, w = im_th.shape[:2]
mask = np.zeros((h+2, w+2), np.uint8)
# Floodfill from point (0, 0)
cv2.floodFill(im_floodfill, mask, (0,0), 255)
# Invert floodfilled image
im_floodfill_inv = cv2.bitwise_not(im_floodfill)
# Combine the two images to get the foreground
im_out = im_th | im_floodfill_inv
# Display images.
cv2.imwrite("circles_filled.png", im_out)
Input file circles.png:
Output file circles_filled.png:

You can also fill the circles by drawing the contours.
import cv2
import numpy as np
#Run Main
if __name__ == "__main__" :
image = cv2.imread("circle.jpg", -1)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
ret,thresh = cv2.threshold(gray, 200, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
_,contours,_ = cv2.findContours(thresh, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE)
cv2.drawContours(image, contours, -1, (255,255,255), thickness=-1)
cv2.namedWindow('Image', cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)
cv2.imshow('Image', image)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Draw contours correctly on the image (OpenCV/Python)

I am trying to draw contours around my test image. I am using canny edge detection in the background.
The findContours method works fine for my image but when I try to do drawContours method on that image. It does not show anything.
Here is what I have tried
import cv2
import numpy as np
image = cv2.imread('/path/to/image.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
blurred = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray, (11, 11), 0)
cv2.imshow("blurred", blurred)
canny = cv2.Canny(blurred, 30, 150)
(_, cnts, _) = cv2.findContours(canny.copy(), cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
print "Contours in the image, %d" % (len(cnts))
shape = image.copy()
cv2.drawContours(shape.copy(), cnts, -1, (0, 255, 0), 2)
cv2.imshow("Edges", shape)
From what I gather from the docs, the fourth argument to the method drawContours would be used to specify the colour of the edge to be drawn over. But it does not show anything for instead of the green edge that I am expecting.
len(cnts) returns 2 for me
Here is the image I am trying it out with
I am using opencv version 3.0.0
Relevant SO question
EDIT: After changing the 3rd argument for cv2.findContours() to cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE, it is still not showing the final green edges(or any colour for that matter) on the final cv2.imshow("Edges", shape) image. Here is what I get from the canny edge image

You have to modify the last to lines of your code to:
You are already storing a copy of image in shape
shape = image.copy()
So why do you use shape.copy() in cv2.drawContours() again?
Replace it as follows:
cv2.drawContours(shape, cnts, -1, (0, 255, 0), 2)
cv2.imshow("Edges", shape)
NOTE: You already have copied the image once, so use it to draw the contours. You don't have to use a copied version of the copied image.
This is what you get as a result:

OpenCV grabcut() background color and Contour in Python

I am using Python and OpenCV. I am now using grabcut() to crop out the object I want. Here is my code:
img = cv2.imread('test.jpg')
img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
mask = np.zeros(img.shape[:2], np.uint8)
bgdModel = np.zeros((1, 65), np.float64)
fgdModel = np.zeros((1, 65), np.float64)
rect = (2,2,630,930)
cv2.grabCut(img,mask,rect,bgdModel,fgdModel,5,cv2.GC_INIT_WITH_RECT)
mask2 = np.where((mask==2)|(mask==0), 0,1).astype('uint8')
img = img*mask2[:,:, np.newaxis]
Afterwards, I try to find out the contour.
I have tried to find the contour by the code below:
imgray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
ret,thresh = cv2.threshold(imgray,127,255,0)
im2, contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
And it returns a contours array with length 48. When I draw this out:
First question is how can I get the contour (array) of this grab cut?
Second question: as you can see, the background color is black. How can I change the background color to white?
Thank you.

At first, you need to get the background. To this must be subtracted from the original image with the mask image. And then change the black background to white (or any color). And then back to add with the image of the mask.
import numpy as np
import cv2
cv2.namedWindow(‘image’, cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)
#Load the Image
imgo = cv2.imread(‘input.jpg’)
height, width = imgo.shape[:2]
#Create a mask holder
mask = np.zeros(imgo.shape[:2],np.uint8)
#Grab Cut the object
bgdModel = np.zeros((1,65),np.float64)
fgdModel = np.zeros((1,65),np.float64)
#Hard Coding the Rect… The object must lie within this rect.
rect = (10,10,width-30,height-30)
cv2.grabCut(imgo,mask,rect,bgdModel,fgdModel,5,cv2.GC_INIT_WITH_RECT)
mask = np.where((mask==2)|(mask==0),0,1).astype(‘uint8’)
img1 = imgo*mask[:,:,np.newaxis]
#Get the background
background = imgo – img1
#Change all pixels in the background that are not black to white
background[np.where((background > [0,0,0]).all(axis = 2))] =[255,255,255]
#Add the background and the image
final = background + img1
#To be done – Smoothening the edges….
cv2.imshow(‘image’, final )
k = cv2.waitKey(0)
if k==27:
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Information taken from the site
https://nxtify.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/image-background-removal-using-opencv-in-python/

If you want a single contour like boundary, you can go for edge detection on the output of grabcut and morphology dilation on the edge image to get as a proper connected contour and can get the array of pixels of the boundary.
For making the background white, All the pixels outside your bounding box can be default made to white. The black pixels inside your bounding box, you can compare with the original image corresponding gray level, if it is black, you can keep it, otherwise make it to white. Because if the original pixel is not black, but made black by grabcut, then it is considered as background. If black pixel is there in foreground, the grabcut never makes it to black (ideal case).