I am working on image segmentation on a gray scale image using MATLAB. At present we have detected few edge points, which when joined together approximate to the shape of the object being detected.
I need the help in separating out only the object from the whole image. The background, i.e. the non-object area can be made fully black or white.
Please give me some hints on where to start.
It is possible to join each point with a line. How to translate the information in terms of those lines in classifying each pixel as belonging to object or background?
An example image of lungs is shown here, where the Left lung is the object and is retained as it is. The background is completely black.
You are looking for the function poly2mask. Try
help poly2mask
An example use case:
t=linspace(0,2*pi,100);
a=(cos(t*3)+2)*20;
x=a.*cos(t)+60;
y=a.*sin(t)+60;
bw = poly2mask(x,y,120,120);
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Here are some images taken from experiments which show a bubble caused by spheres moving in liquid.
Now I want to get the area of the bubble from every image using Matlab. The first thing come to my mind is edge detection. So I tried using the following code:
A = imread('D:\1.jpg');
BW1 = edge(A,'sobel');
figure, imshow(BW1)
to get the cavity edge of the picture which was then cropped manually, as the picture show, the result (below) doesn't satisfy requirements. Also, I still don't know how to get the area of the bubble.
So, can someone tell me what should I do?
I think you should use background subtraction and try a simple segmentation.
You could use regionprops to get the area of the bubble:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/regionprops.html
I feel like it should work pretty well. If you have a hard time obtaining a clean segmentation you could probably improve the experimental setup to increase the contrast of the bubble with respect to the background by choosing a background as dark as possible and using some lateral illumination to leverage the diffusion of the light by the bubble.
Finally the segmentation should be performed in a region of interest (ROI) since you know the bubble is confined within the tank
As for the issue of getting an accurate cavity edges, the computer vision system toolbox has the vision.ForegroundDetector object, which implements a variant of Stauffer and Grimson's GMM background subtraction. The implementation is very fast, leveraging multiple cores. Check out this example of how to use background subtraction.
As for the issue of finding the area of the bubble, use the bwarea command. https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/bwarea.html, it will sum up all the white pixels in the image.
I believe background subtraction is the most efficient method to calculate this bubble area. Note that you may need to use opening and closing techniques afterwards to filter other regions see (imopen imclose) at: https://uk.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/imopen.html , and afterwards, you can apply bwarea to calculate area. You could also use impixelinfo command to compare intensity level of bubbles and other areas, and therefore, threshold image to extract bubbles. It works only when you have same threshold level for all images. Further, it is possible to combine all these techniques which is completely depended on your images to achieve better results.
Other shape-based techniques also can be used to extract bubble region area.
I'm trying to make an object recognition program using a k-NN classifier. I've got a bunch of images for the training part of the classifier and a bunch of images to recognize. Those images are in grayscale and there's an object per image. The problem is that there's only the edge of the object (not filled), so I don't think using regionprops(img,'centroid') will work properly for what I understand...
So how can I get their center of mass?
xenoclast's answer should be quite clear, just to add something extra.
As you are done creating the binary image from the grayscale image of yours using im2bw; if the edge of your the object is a the boundary that covers the object fully, you may use regionprops(bw,'centroid') directly without going through imfill.
The first step would be to binarise the image with im2bw. Then you can use imfill(img, 'holes') to turn it from an outline into a filled solid. After that regionprops will work as expected.
i want to get the red region as specified in the image below :
remember that the red region that is shown in the image is just for clarification , it is not present in original image , below is the original image attached :
i also have the iris point in this region, i already got that point , if that point can help me so i can share that image too.
can someone help me in this .....
For this specific image, let's call it BW, you can find the center region as:
BWnoBorder= imclearborder(BW); %# remove the white that touches the border
OnlyCenter = bwareaopen(BWnoBorder,1000); %# remove all small pixel areas
A robust method might be the snake region growing algorithm.
Seems like you thresholded the eye illuminated by IR or something. To answer your question or even to ask it correctly you have to show a number of images to evaluate the stability and noise in eye socket regions. Otherwise one can come up with a solution that works for the image above but not in general.
For example, I can invert your image, get the largest Connected Component (the dark region) and erode it till it becomes thin, see below. It is easy to get an ellipse from this binary mask but will it work in general case with your noisy input?
A good thing to start is to say what do you expect to find. Say you are looking for an eye, dark surrounding area and a bright skin tone - make it 3 Mixed models that settle simultaneously in the EM fashion. Provide some shape priors to increase accuracy. think about other visual cues such as specs on the iris, saccades, FA from blinks, etc.
I have several images of the pugmark with lots of irrevelant background region. I cannot do intensity based algorithms to seperate background from the foreground.
I have tried several methods. one of them is detecting object in Homogeneous Intensity image
but this is not working with rough texture images like
http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/4654/p1030076b.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img802/5982/cub1.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img42/6530/cub2.jpg
Their could be three possible methods :
1) if i can reduce the roughness factor of the image and obtain the more smoother texture i.e more flat surface.
2) if i could detect the pugmark like shape in these images by defining rough pugmark shape in the database and then removing the background to obtain image like http://i.imgur.com/W0MFYmQ.png
3) if i could detect the regions with depth and separating them from the background based on difference in their depths.
please tell if any of these methods would work and if yes then how to implement them.
I have a hunch that this problem could benefit from using polynomial texture maps.
See here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ptm/
You might want to consider top-down information in the process. See, for example, this work.
Looks like you're close enough from the pugmark, so I think that you should be able to detect pugmarks using Viola Jones algorithm. Maybe a PCA-like algorithm such as Eigenface would work too, even if you're not trying to recognize a particular pugmark it still can be used to tell whether or not there is a pugmark in the image.
Have you tried edge detection on your image ? I guess it should be possible to finetune Canny edge detector thresholds in order to get rid of the noise (if it's not good enough, low pass filter your image first), then do shape recognition on what remains (you would then be in the field of geometric feature learning and structural matching) Viola Jones and possibly PCA-like algorithm would be my first try though.
I have an image which looks like this:
I have a task in which I should circle all the bottles around their opening. I created a simple algorithm and started working it. My algorithm follows:
Threshold the original image
Do some morphological opening in it
Fill the empty holes
Separate the portion of the image using region props such that only the area equivalent to the mouth of the bottles is selected.
Find the centroid for each and draw circle around each bottle.
I did according to the algorithm above and but I have some portion of the image around which I draw a circle. This is because I have selected the area since the area of the mouth of bottle and the remained noise is almost same. And so I yielded a figure like this.
The processing applied on the image look like this:
And my final image after plotting the circle over the original image is like this:
I think I can deal with the extra circle, that is, because of some white portion of the image remained as shown in the figure 2 below. This can be filtered out using regionproping for eccentricity. Is that a good idea or there are some other approaches to this? How would I deal with other bottles behind the glass and select them?
Nice example images you provide for your question!
One thing you can use to detect the remaining bottles (if there are any) is the well defined structure of the placement of the bottles.
The 4 by 5 grid of the bottle should be relatively easy to locate, and when the grid is located you can test if a bottle is detected at each expected bottle location.
With respect to the extra detected bottle, you can use shape features like
eccentricity,
the first Hu moment
a ratio between the perimeter length squared over the area (which is minimized for a circle) details here
If you are able to detect the grid, it should be easy to located it as an outlier (far from an expected bottle location) and discard accordingly.
Good luck with your project!
I've used the same approach as midtiby's third suggestion using the ratio between area and perimeter called shape factor:
4π * Area /perimeter^2
to detect circles from a contour traced image (from the thresholded image) to great success;
http://www.empix.com/NE%20HELP/functions/glossary/morphometric_param.htm
Regarding the 4 unfound bottles, this is rather tricky without some a priori knowledge of what it is you're looking at (as discussed using the 4 x 5 grid, then looking from the centre of each cell). I did think that from the list of contours, most would be of the bottle tops (which you can test using the shape factor stuff), however, one would be of a large rectangle. If you could find the extremities of the rectangle (from the largest contour in terms of area), then remove it from the third image, you'd be left with partial circles. If you then contour traced those partial circles and used a mixture of shape factor/curve detection etc. may help? And yes, good luck again!