I have the following image, which is a scanned printed paper with 4 images. I printed 4 images in the same sheet of paper to save printing resources:
However, now I need to extract image by image and, for each of them, create an individual image file. Is there any easy way of doing that with Python, Matlab or any other programming language?
Here is one way to do that in Python/OpenCV. But it requires that the pictures colors at their sides be sufficiently different from the background color. If so, you can threshold the image, then get contours and use their bounding boxes to crop out each image.
Read the input
Threshold based on the background color
Invert the threshold, so that the background is black
Apply morphology open and close to fill the picture regions and remove noise
Get the external contours
For each contour, get its bounding box and crop the input image and save it to disk
Input:
import cv2
import numpy as np
# read image
img = cv2.imread('4faces.jpg')
# threshold on background color
lowerBound = (230,230,230)
upperBound = (255,255,255)
thresh = cv2.inRange(img, lowerBound, upperBound)
# invert so background black
thresh = 255 - thresh
# apply morphology to ensure regions are filled and remove extraneous noise
kernel = np.ones((7,7), np.uint8)
thresh = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
kernel = np.ones((11,11), np.uint8)
thresh = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel)
# get contours
contours = cv2.findContours(thresh, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
contours = contours[0] if len(contours) == 2 else contours[1]
# get bounding boxes and crop input
i = 1
for cntr in contours:
# get bounding boxes
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cntr)
crop = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
cv2.imwrite("4faces_crop_{0}.png".format(i), crop)
i = i + 1
# save threshold
cv2.imwrite("4faces_thresh.png",thresh)
# show thresh and result
cv2.imshow("thresh", thresh)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Thresholded image after morphology cleaning:
Cropped Images:
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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:
This is Wendy.Image processing related question.
I have to select the bubbles properly to analyze its size and calculate the velocity among image sequences.
original image
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image sequences
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In the picture,the largest shape is a droplet,and inside the droplet contains lots of tiny bubbles.
So far, the questions are:
1.Because the shape of bubbles are broken, few contours are detected. At the same time, lots of edges detected. How can I fill out the edges to be contours ( like a coin, I just want the outline of each bubble and don't want to get the lines inside bubbles)
current progress
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code(detect contours)
gray=cv2.imread("1000.tif")
blurred = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray, (3,3), 0)
edged = cv2.Canny(blurred, 5, 60)
cv2.imshow('edged ', edged )
cv2.waitKey(0)
contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(edged,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.RETR_LIST)
img = gray.copy()
cv2.drawContours(img,contours,-1,(0,255),1)
cv2.imwrite("contours.tif", img)
cv2.imshow("contours", img)
cv2.waitKey(0)
code(fill holes)
im_floodfill = edged.copy()
h, w = edged.shape[:2]
mask = np.zeros((h+2, w+2), np.uint8)
cv2.floodFill(im_floodfill, mask, (0,0), 255)
im_floodfill_inv = cv2.bitwise_not(im_floodfill)
im_out = edged | im_floodfill_inv
cv2.imshow("Thresholded Image", edged)
cv2.imshow("Floodfilled Image", im_floodfill)
cv2.imshow("Inverted Floodfilled Image", im_floodfill_inv)
cv2.imshow("Foreground", im_out)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.imwrite("fill.jpg", im_out)
the result will be
enter image description here
The velocity of the bubbles is my objective. I've tried to put the binary image sequences into Iamgej and used the "trackmate" (a tool for automated, and semi-automated particle tracking). It has a fixed bubble size setting to track, however, the size of the bubbles is quite different in my case, so is there any method to track bubbles moving?
If this isn't clear enough please let me know and I can try and be more specific. Thank you for your time.
Here is one way in Python/OpenCV.
Read the input
Convert to gray
Threshold
Fill the holes with morphology close
Get the contours and the largest contour (though presumably just one)
Draw the contour on a copy of the input
Save the results
Input:
import cv2
import numpy as np
# read image
img = cv2.imread('vapor.jpg')
# convert to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# threshold
#thresh = cv2.threshold(gray,5,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)[1]
thresh = cv2.threshold(gray, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
# apply close morphology to fill white circles
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE, (45,45))
thresh_cleaned = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel)
# get largest contour
contours = cv2.findContours(thresh_cleaned, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
contours = contours[0] if len(contours) == 2 else contours[1]
big_contour = max(contours, key=cv2.contourArea)
# draw contour
result = img.copy()
cv2.drawContours(result,[big_contour],0,(0,0,255),1)
# save image with points drawn
cv2.imwrite('vapor_thresh.jpg',thresh)
cv2.imwrite('vapor_cleaned_thresh.jpg',thresh_cleaned)
cv2.imwrite('vapor_contour.jpg',result)
cv2.imshow("thresh", thresh)
cv2.imshow("thresh_cleaned", thresh_cleaned)
cv2.imshow("contour", result)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Threshold image:
Morphology filled image:
Contour image:
I am working with videos, that have borders (margins) around them. Some have it along all 4 sides, some along left&right only and some along top&bottom only. Length of these margins is also not fixed.
I am extracting frames from these videos, as for example,
and
Both of these contain borders on the top and bottom.
Can anyone please suggest some methods to remove these borders from these images (in Python, preferably).
I came across some methods, like this on Stackoverflow, but this deals with an ideal situation where borders are perfectly black (0,0,0). But in my case, they may not be pitch black, and also may contain jittery noises too.
Any help/suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Here is one way to do that in Python/OpenCV.
Read the image
Convert to grayscale and invert
Threshold
Apply morphology to remove small black or white regions then invert again
Get the contour of the one region
Get the bounding box of that contour
Use numpy slicing to crop that area of the image to form the resulting image
Save the resulting image
import cv2
import numpy as np
# read image
img = cv2.imread('gymnast.png')
# convert to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# invert gray image
gray = 255 - gray
# gaussian blur
blur = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray, (3,3), 0)
# threshold
thresh = cv2.threshold(blur,236,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)[1]
# apply close and open morphology to fill tiny black and white holes
kernel = np.ones((5,5), np.uint8)
thresh = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel)
thresh = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
# invert thresh
thresh = 255 -thresh
# get contours (presumably just one around the nonzero pixels)
# then crop it to bounding rectangle
contours = cv2.findContours(thresh, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
contours = contours[0] if len(contours) == 2 else contours[1]
cntr = contours[0]
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cntr)
crop = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
cv2.imshow("IMAGE", img)
cv2.imshow("THRESH", thresh)
cv2.imshow("CROP", crop)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# save cropped image
cv2.imwrite('gymnast_crop.png',crop)
cv2.imwrite('gymnast_crop.png',crop)
Input:
Thresholded and cleaned image:
Cropped Result:
I have a problem because I have separate registrations for photos. Now I would like to get the registration number from the photo. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of the code I wrote is very low and I would like to ask for help in achieving greater efficiency. any tips?
In the first phase, the photo looks like this
Then transform the photo to gray and only the black color contrasts
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
# define range of black color in HSV
lower_val = np.array([0,0,0])
upper_val = np.array([179,100,130])
# Threshold the HSV image to get only black colors
mask = cv2.inRange(hsv, lower_val, upper_val)
receives
What can I add or do to improve the effectiveness of the program. is there a way for the program to retrieve registrations a bit? Will this help
configr = ('-l eng --oem 1 --psm 6-c tessedit_char_whitelist=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789')
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(mask,lang='eng', config=configr)
print(text)
Here's an approach:
Color threshold to extract black text. We load the image, convert to HSV colorspace, define a lower and upper color range, and use cv2.inRange() to color threshold and obtain a binary mask
Perform morphological operations. Create a kernel and perform morph close to fill holes in the contours.
Filter license plate contours. Find contours and filter using bounding rectangle area. If a contour passes this filter, we extract the ROI and paste it onto a new blank mask.
OCR using Pytesseract. We invert the image so desired text is black and throw it into Pytesseract.
Here's a visualization of each step:
Obtained mask from color thresholding + morph closing
Filter for license plate contours highlighted in green
Pasted plate contours onto a blank mask
Inverted image ready for Tesseract
Result from Tesseract OCR
PZ 689LR
Code
import numpy as np
import pytesseract
import cv2
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
# Load image, create blank mask, convert to HSV, define thresholds, color threshold
image = cv2.imread('1.png')
result = np.zeros(image.shape, dtype=np.uint8)
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
lower = np.array([0,0,0])
upper = np.array([179,100,130])
mask = cv2.inRange(hsv, lower, upper)
# Perform morph close and merge for 3-channel ROI extraction
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (3,3))
close = cv2.morphologyEx(mask, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel, iterations=1)
extract = cv2.merge([close,close,close])
# Find contours, filter using contour area, and extract using Numpy slicing
cnts = cv2.findContours(close, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnts = cnts[0] if len(cnts) == 2 else cnts[1]
for c in cnts:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(c)
area = w * h
if area < 5000 and area > 2500:
cv2.rectangle(image, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), (36,255,12), 3)
result[y:y+h, x:x+w] = extract[y:y+h, x:x+w]
# Invert image and throw into Pytesseract
invert = 255 - result
data = pytesseract.image_to_string(invert, lang='eng',config='--psm 6')
print(data)
cv2.imshow('image', image)
cv2.imshow('close', close)
cv2.imshow('result', result)
cv2.imshow('invert', invert)
cv2.waitKey()
I am stitching multiple images into one. In an intermediate step, I get an image like:
It isn't necessary at all that the image starts from left and has black region in the right. I want to obtain a rectangular image from this one that doesn't contain the black region. That is, something like:
Can someone please suggest me a way to do that?
Here is one way to crop out the excess black on the right side of the image:
Read the image
Convert to grayscale
Threshold
Apply closing and opening morphology to remove small black and white spots.
Get the surrounding contour
Crop the contour
Save the result
Input:
import cv2
import numpy as np
# read image
img = cv2.imread('road.jpg')
# convert to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# threshold
_,thresh = cv2.threshold(gray,5,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
# apply close and open morphology to fill tiny black and white holes
kernel = np.ones((5,5), np.uint8)
thresh = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel)
thresh = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
# get contours (presumably just one around the nonzero pixels)
# then crop it to bounding rectangle
contours = cv2.findContours(thresh, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
contours = contours[0] if len(contours) == 2 else contours[1]
for cntr in contours:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cntr)
crop = img[y:y+h,x:x+w]
# show cropped image
cv2.imshow("CROP", crop)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# save cropped image
cv2.imwrite('road_crop.png',crop)