OpenCV Python best thresholding for document photos with varying light - python

Thank you for your time dear reader,
i´m trying to implement a document scanner in Python/OpenCV but im struggling with varying lights in the image.
Im hoping that maybe some kind soul can at least point me in the right direction because I have no concrete clue how I could improve it - if that is possible or known at all.
Im using otsus binarization for thresholding:
https://docs.opencv.org/3.4.0/d7/d4d/tutorial_py_thresholding.html
My results so far are pretty good:
But for difficult lighting with either two bright/dark areas or one bright - one dark area for instance (this is a crass example) it fails:
Playing around with Gimp curves sometimes gets me clear edges - maybe there is a best practice how to tackle this problem that I dont know of?
I played around with the code a lot but got no real progress by combining hierarchy / chain approx / approxpolydp epsilon methods etc.
My current code:
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import cv2 as cv
import numpy as np
import sys
# zero at the end reads black white
img = cv.imread(sys.argv[1],0)
blur = cv.GaussianBlur(img,(5,5),0)
# find normalized_histogram, and its cumulative distribution function
hist = cv.calcHist([blur],[0],None,[256],[0,256])
hist_norm = hist.ravel()/hist.max()
Q = hist_norm.cumsum()
bins = np.arange(256)
fn_min = np.inf
thresh = -1
for i in range(1,256):
p1,p2 = np.hsplit(hist_norm,[i]) # probabilities
q1,q2 = Q[i],Q[255]-Q[i] # cum sum of classes
b1,b2 = np.hsplit(bins,[i]) # weights
# finding means and variances
m1,m2 = np.sum(p1*b1)/q1, np.sum(p2*b2)/q2
v1,v2 = np.sum(((b1-m1)**2)*p1)/q1,np.sum(((b2-m2)**2)*p2)/q2
# calculates the minimization function
fn = v1*q1 + v2*q2
if fn < fn_min:
fn_min = fn
thresh = i
# find otsu's threshold value with OpenCV function
ret, otsu = cv.threshold(blur,0,255,cv.THRESH_BINARY+cv.THRESH_OTSU)
cv.imwrite('otsu.jpg',otsu)
_, contours, hierarchy = cv.findContours(otsu, cv.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
def biggestRectangle(contours):
biggest = None
max_area = 0
indexReturn = -1
for index in range(len(contours)):
i = contours[index]
area = cv.contourArea(i)
if area > 100:
peri = cv.arcLength(i,True)
approx = cv.approxPolyDP(i,0.1*peri,True)
if area > max_area: #and len(approx)==4:
biggest = approx
max_area = area
indexReturn = index
return indexReturn
indexReturn = biggestRectangle(contours)
hull = cv.convexHull(contours[indexReturn])
orig = cv.imread(sys.argv[1])
cv.imwrite('hola.jpg',cv.drawContours(orig, [hull], 0, (0,255,0),3))
The biggest rectangle code I copied from here:
How to detect document from a picture in opencv?
All credits to monic! (accepted answer)

I think the best way to achieve this would be to use color Masks but in HSV so that it stays focused on the color and not on the brightness/contrast.
Keep in mind that OpenCV encodes HSV with those ranges:
H: 0 - 180
S: 0 - 255
V: 0 - 255
Here is how I would do it:
# Convert your image to HSV
imgHsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV);
# Define lower/upper color
lower = np.array([0, 0, 180])
upper = np.array([180, 20, 255])
# Check the region of the image actually with a color in the range defined below
# inRange returns a matrix in black and white
bw = cv2.inRange(imgHsv, lower, upper)

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How do I detect laser line from 2 images and calculate its center using python opencv?

How can I detect laser line using 2 images, first with laser turned off and second with turned on and then calculate its center?
These are my images:
img1.jpg
img2.jpg
This is my code:
import cv2
import time
img1 = cv2.imread("img1.jpg")
img2 = cv2.imread("img2.jpg")
img_org = img1
img1 = img1[:,:,2]
img2 = img2[:,:,2]
diff = cv2.absdiff(img1, img2)
diff = cv2.medianBlur(diff,5)
ret, diff = cv2.threshold(diff ,0 ,255 ,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
cv2.imwrite("output1.png", diff)
count = 0
height, width = diff.shape[:2]
start = time.time() # time start
for y in range(height):
for x in range(width):
if diff[y,x] == 255:
count += 1
elif not count == 0:
img_org[y, round(x - count/2)] = [0, 255, 0]
count = 0
end = time.time() # time stop
print(end - start)
cv2.imwrite("output2.png", img_org)
cv2.waitKey(0)
This code takes red channel from both images, compare them to detect difference, then blur and treshold the difference image. This doesnt work good enought because on the top is some white that shouldn't be there. output1.png (diff)
For detecting center of thresholded line I have tried looping through every row and pixel of the threshold image, counting white pixels. It works correcly but because of slow python loops and arrays calculating one 4032x2268 thresholded image takes about 16 seconds. For testing my code is setting laser line center to green pixels on output2.png. output2.png (img_org)
How can I make laser detection more accurate and center of line calculation way faster?
I'm fairly new to opencv.
difference
gaussian blur to suppress noise, and smooth over saturated sections
np.argmax to find maximum for each row
I would also recommend
some more reduction in exposure
PNG instead of JPEG for real processing. JPEG saves space, okay for viewing on the web.
Gamma curves don't necessarily matter here. Just make sure the environment is darker than the laser. Exact calculation depends on what color space it is exactly, and the 2.2 exponent is a good approximation of the actual curve
im0 = cv.imread("background.jpeg")
im1 = cv.imread("foreground.jpeg")
(height, width) = im0.shape[:2]
# gamma stuff, make values linear
#im0 = (im0 / np.float32(255)) ** 2.2
#im1 = (im1 / np.float32(255)) ** 2.2
diff = cv.absdiff(im1, im0)
diff = cv.GaussianBlur(diff, ksize=None, sigmaX=3.0)
plane = diff[:,:,2] # red
indices = np.argmax(plane, axis=1) # horizontally, for each row
out = diff.copy() # "drawing" 3 pixels thick
out[np.arange(height), indices-1] = (0,255,0)
out[np.arange(height), indices ] = (0,255,0)
out[np.arange(height), indices+1] = (0,255,0)
cv.imwrite("out.jpeg", out)

Writing robust (size invariant) circle detection (Watershed)

Edit: Quick Summary so far: I use the watershed algorithm but I have probably a problem with threshold. It didn't detect the brighter circles.
New: Fast radial symmetry transform approach which didn't quite work eiter (Edit 6).
I want to detect circles with different sizes. The use case is to detect coins on an image and to extract them solely. -> Get the single coins as single image files.
For this I used the Hough Circle Transform of open-cv:
(https://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/imgproc/imgtrans/hough_circle/hough_circle.html)
import sys
import cv2 as cv
import numpy as np
def main(argv):
## [load]
default_file = "data/newcommon_1euro.jpg"
filename = argv[0] if len(argv) > 0 else default_file
# Loads an image
src = cv.imread(filename, cv.IMREAD_COLOR)
# Check if image is loaded fine
if src is None:
print ('Error opening image!')
print ('Usage: hough_circle.py [image_name -- default ' + default_file + '] \n')
return -1
## [load]
## [convert_to_gray]
# Convert it to gray
gray = cv.cvtColor(src, cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
## [convert_to_gray]
## [reduce_noise]
# Reduce the noise to avoid false circle detection
gray = cv.medianBlur(gray, 5)
## [reduce_noise]
## [houghcircles]
rows = gray.shape[0]
circles = cv.HoughCircles(gray, cv.HOUGH_GRADIENT, 1, rows / 8,
param1=100, param2=30,
minRadius=0, maxRadius=120)
## [houghcircles]
## [draw]
if circles is not None:
circles = np.uint16(np.around(circles))
for i in circles[0, :]:
center = (i[0], i[1])
# circle center
cv.circle(src, center, 1, (0, 100, 100), 3)
# circle outline
radius = i[2]
cv.circle(src, center, radius, (255, 0, 255), 3)
## [draw]
## [display]
cv.imshow("detected circles", src)
cv.waitKey(0)
## [display]
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv[1:])
I tried all parameters (rows, param1, param2, minRadius, and maxRadius) to optimize the results. This worked very well for one specific image but other images with different sized coins didn't work.
Examples:
Parameters
circles = cv.HoughCircles(gray, cv.HOUGH_GRADIENT, 1, rows / 16,
param1=100, param2=30,
minRadius=0, maxRadius=120)
With the same parameters:
Changed to rows/8
I also tried two other approaches of this thread: writing robust (color and size invariant) circle detection with opencv (based on Hough transform or other features)
The approach of fireant leads to this result:
The approach of fraxel didn't work either.
For the first approach: This happens with all different sizes and also the min and max radius.
How could I change the code, so that the coin size is not important or that it finds the parameters itself?
Thank you in advance for any help!
Edit:
I tried the watershed algorithm of Open-cv, as suggested by Alexander Reynolds: https://docs.opencv.org/3.4/d3/db4/tutorial_py_watershed.html
import numpy as np
import cv2 as cv
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
img = cv.imread('data/P1190263.jpg')
gray = cv.cvtColor(img,cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
ret, thresh = cv.threshold(gray,0,255,cv.THRESH_BINARY_INV+cv.THRESH_OTSU)
# noise removal
kernel = np.ones((3,3),np.uint8)
opening = cv.morphologyEx(thresh,cv.MORPH_OPEN,kernel, iterations = 2)
# sure background area
sure_bg = cv.dilate(opening,kernel,iterations=3)
# Finding sure foreground area
dist_transform = cv.distanceTransform(opening,cv.DIST_L2,5)
ret, sure_fg = cv.threshold(dist_transform,0.7*dist_transform.max(),255,0)
# Finding unknown region
sure_fg = np.uint8(sure_fg)
unknown = cv.subtract(sure_bg,sure_fg)
# Marker labelling
ret, markers = cv.connectedComponents(sure_fg)
# Add one to all labels so that sure background is not 0, but 1
markers = markers+1
# Now, mark the region of unknown with zero
markers[unknown==255] = 0
markers = cv.watershed(img,markers)
img[markers == -1] = [255,0,0]
#Display:
cv.imshow("detected circles", img)
cv.waitKey(0)
It works very well on the test image of the open-cv website:
But it performs very bad on my own images:
I can't really think of a good reason why it's not working on my images?
Edit 2:
As suggested I looked at the intermediate images. The thresh looks not good in my opinion. Next, there is no difference between opening and dist_transform. The corresponding sure_fg shows the detected images.
thresh:
opening:
dist_transform:
sure_bg:
sure_fg:
Edit 3:
I tried all distanceTypes and maskSizes I could find, but the results were quite the same (https://www.tutorialspoint.com/opencv/opencv_distance_transformation.htm)
Edit 4:
Furthermore, I tried to change the (first) threshold function. I used different threshold values instead of the OTSU Function. The best one was with 160, but it was far from good:
In the tutorial it looks like this:
It seems like the coins are somehow too bright to be detected by this algorithm, but I don't know how to improve it?
Edit 5:
Changing the overall contrast and brightness of the image (with cv.convertScaleAbs) didn't improve the results. Increasing the contrast however should increase the "difference" between foreground and background, at least on the normal image. But it even got worse. The corresponding threshold image didn't improved (didn't get more white pixel).
Edit 6: I tried another approach, the fast radial symmetry transform (from here https://github.com/ceilab/frst_python)
import cv2
import numpy as np
def gradx(img):
img = img.astype('int')
rows, cols = img.shape
# Use hstack to add back in the columns that were dropped as zeros
return np.hstack((np.zeros((rows, 1)), (img[:, 2:] - img[:, :-2]) / 2.0, np.zeros((rows, 1))))
def grady(img):
img = img.astype('int')
rows, cols = img.shape
# Use vstack to add back the rows that were dropped as zeros
return np.vstack((np.zeros((1, cols)), (img[2:, :] - img[:-2, :]) / 2.0, np.zeros((1, cols))))
# Performs fast radial symmetry transform
# img: input image, grayscale
# radii: integer value for radius size in pixels (n in the original paper); also used to size gaussian kernel
# alpha: Strictness of symmetry transform (higher=more strict; 2 is good place to start)
# beta: gradient threshold parameter, float in [0,1]
# stdFactor: Standard deviation factor for gaussian kernel
# mode: BRIGHT, DARK, or BOTH
def frst(img, radii, alpha, beta, stdFactor, mode='BOTH'):
mode = mode.upper()
assert mode in ['BRIGHT', 'DARK', 'BOTH']
dark = (mode == 'DARK' or mode == 'BOTH')
bright = (mode == 'BRIGHT' or mode == 'BOTH')
workingDims = tuple((e + 2 * radii) for e in img.shape)
# Set up output and M and O working matrices
output = np.zeros(img.shape, np.uint8)
O_n = np.zeros(workingDims, np.int16)
M_n = np.zeros(workingDims, np.int16)
# Calculate gradients
gx = gradx(img)
gy = grady(img)
# Find gradient vector magnitude
gnorms = np.sqrt(np.add(np.multiply(gx, gx), np.multiply(gy, gy)))
# Use beta to set threshold - speeds up transform significantly
gthresh = np.amax(gnorms) * beta
# Find x/y distance to affected pixels
gpx = np.multiply(np.divide(gx, gnorms, out=np.zeros(gx.shape), where=gnorms != 0),
radii).round().astype(int);
gpy = np.multiply(np.divide(gy, gnorms, out=np.zeros(gy.shape), where=gnorms != 0),
radii).round().astype(int);
# Iterate over all pixels (w/ gradient above threshold)
for coords, gnorm in np.ndenumerate(gnorms):
if gnorm > gthresh:
i, j = coords
# Positively affected pixel
if bright:
ppve = (i + gpx[i, j], j + gpy[i, j])
O_n[ppve] += 1
M_n[ppve] += gnorm
# Negatively affected pixel
if dark:
pnve = (i - gpx[i, j], j - gpy[i, j])
O_n[pnve] -= 1
M_n[pnve] -= gnorm
# Abs and normalize O matrix
O_n = np.abs(O_n)
O_n = O_n / float(np.amax(O_n))
# Normalize M matrix
M_max = float(np.amax(np.abs(M_n)))
M_n = M_n / M_max
# Elementwise multiplication
F_n = np.multiply(np.power(O_n, alpha), M_n)
# Gaussian blur
kSize = int(np.ceil(radii / 2))
kSize = kSize + 1 if kSize % 2 == 0 else kSize
S = cv2.GaussianBlur(F_n, (kSize, kSize), int(radii * stdFactor))
return S
img = cv2.imread('data/P1190263.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
result = frst(gray, 60, 2, 0, 1, mode='BOTH')
cv2.imshow("detected circles", result)
cv2.waitKey(0)
I only get this nearly black output (it has some very dark grey shadows). I don't know what to change and would be thankful for help!

Best approach to process a grid like image [duplicate]

I was doing a fun project: Solving a Sudoku from an input image using OpenCV (as in Google goggles etc). And I have completed the task, but at the end I found a little problem for which I came here.
I did the programming using Python API of OpenCV 2.3.1.
Below is what I did :
Read the image
Find the contours
Select the one with maximum area, ( and also somewhat equivalent to square).
Find the corner points.
e.g. given below:
(Notice here that the green line correctly coincides with the true boundary of the Sudoku, so the Sudoku can be correctly warped. Check next image)
warp the image to a perfect square
eg image:
Perform OCR ( for which I used the method I have given in Simple Digit Recognition OCR in OpenCV-Python )
And the method worked well.
Problem:
Check out this image.
Performing the step 4 on this image gives the result below:
The red line drawn is the original contour which is the true outline of sudoku boundary.
The green line drawn is approximated contour which will be the outline of warped image.
Which of course, there is difference between green line and red line at the top edge of sudoku. So while warping, I am not getting the original boundary of the Sudoku.
My Question :
How can I warp the image on the correct boundary of the Sudoku, i.e. the red line OR how can I remove the difference between red line and green line? Is there any method for this in OpenCV?
I have a solution that works, but you'll have to translate it to OpenCV yourself. It's written in Mathematica.
The first step is to adjust the brightness in the image, by dividing each pixel with the result of a closing operation:
src = ColorConvert[Import["http://davemark.com/images/sudoku.jpg"], "Grayscale"];
white = Closing[src, DiskMatrix[5]];
srcAdjusted = Image[ImageData[src]/ImageData[white]]
The next step is to find the sudoku area, so I can ignore (mask out) the background. For that, I use connected component analysis, and select the component that's got the largest convex area:
components =
ComponentMeasurements[
ColorNegate#Binarize[srcAdjusted], {"ConvexArea", "Mask"}][[All,
2]];
largestComponent = Image[SortBy[components, First][[-1, 2]]]
By filling this image, I get a mask for the sudoku grid:
mask = FillingTransform[largestComponent]
Now, I can use a 2nd order derivative filter to find the vertical and horizontal lines in two separate images:
lY = ImageMultiply[MorphologicalBinarize[GaussianFilter[srcAdjusted, 3, {2, 0}], {0.02, 0.05}], mask];
lX = ImageMultiply[MorphologicalBinarize[GaussianFilter[srcAdjusted, 3, {0, 2}], {0.02, 0.05}], mask];
I use connected component analysis again to extract the grid lines from these images. The grid lines are much longer than the digits, so I can use caliper length to select only the grid lines-connected components. Sorting them by position, I get 2x10 mask images for each of the vertical/horizontal grid lines in the image:
verticalGridLineMasks =
SortBy[ComponentMeasurements[
lX, {"CaliperLength", "Centroid", "Mask"}, # > 100 &][[All,
2]], #[[2, 1]] &][[All, 3]];
horizontalGridLineMasks =
SortBy[ComponentMeasurements[
lY, {"CaliperLength", "Centroid", "Mask"}, # > 100 &][[All,
2]], #[[2, 2]] &][[All, 3]];
Next I take each pair of vertical/horizontal grid lines, dilate them, calculate the pixel-by-pixel intersection, and calculate the center of the result. These points are the grid line intersections:
centerOfGravity[l_] :=
ComponentMeasurements[Image[l], "Centroid"][[1, 2]]
gridCenters =
Table[centerOfGravity[
ImageData[Dilation[Image[h], DiskMatrix[2]]]*
ImageData[Dilation[Image[v], DiskMatrix[2]]]], {h,
horizontalGridLineMasks}, {v, verticalGridLineMasks}];
The last step is to define two interpolation functions for X/Y mapping through these points, and transform the image using these functions:
fnX = ListInterpolation[gridCenters[[All, All, 1]]];
fnY = ListInterpolation[gridCenters[[All, All, 2]]];
transformed =
ImageTransformation[
srcAdjusted, {fnX ## Reverse[#], fnY ## Reverse[#]} &, {9*50, 9*50},
PlotRange -> {{1, 10}, {1, 10}}, DataRange -> Full]
All of the operations are basic image processing function, so this should be possible in OpenCV, too. The spline-based image transformation might be harder, but I don't think you really need it. Probably using the perspective transformation you use now on each individual cell will give good enough results.
Nikie's answer solved my problem, but his answer was in Mathematica. So I thought I should give its OpenCV adaptation here. But after implementing I could see that OpenCV code is much bigger than nikie's mathematica code. And also, I couldn't find interpolation method done by nikie in OpenCV ( although it can be done using scipy, i will tell it when time comes.)
1. Image PreProcessing ( closing operation )
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = cv2.imread('dave.jpg')
img = cv2.GaussianBlur(img,(5,5),0)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
mask = np.zeros((gray.shape),np.uint8)
kernel1 = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE,(11,11))
close = cv2.morphologyEx(gray,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,kernel1)
div = np.float32(gray)/(close)
res = np.uint8(cv2.normalize(div,div,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX))
res2 = cv2.cvtColor(res,cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR)
Result :
2. Finding Sudoku Square and Creating Mask Image
thresh = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(res,255,0,1,19,2)
contour,hier = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
max_area = 0
best_cnt = None
for cnt in contour:
area = cv2.contourArea(cnt)
if area > 1000:
if area > max_area:
max_area = area
best_cnt = cnt
cv2.drawContours(mask,[best_cnt],0,255,-1)
cv2.drawContours(mask,[best_cnt],0,0,2)
res = cv2.bitwise_and(res,mask)
Result :
3. Finding Vertical lines
kernelx = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT,(2,10))
dx = cv2.Sobel(res,cv2.CV_16S,1,0)
dx = cv2.convertScaleAbs(dx)
cv2.normalize(dx,dx,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
ret,close = cv2.threshold(dx,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,kernelx,iterations = 1)
contour, hier = cv2.findContours(close,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contour:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if h/w > 5:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,255,-1)
else:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,0,-1)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,None,iterations = 2)
closex = close.copy()
Result :
4. Finding Horizontal Lines
kernely = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT,(10,2))
dy = cv2.Sobel(res,cv2.CV_16S,0,2)
dy = cv2.convertScaleAbs(dy)
cv2.normalize(dy,dy,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
ret,close = cv2.threshold(dy,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,kernely)
contour, hier = cv2.findContours(close,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contour:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if w/h > 5:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,255,-1)
else:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,0,-1)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,None,iterations = 2)
closey = close.copy()
Result :
Of course, this one is not so good.
5. Finding Grid Points
res = cv2.bitwise_and(closex,closey)
Result :
6. Correcting the defects
Here, nikie does some kind of interpolation, about which I don't have much knowledge. And i couldn't find any corresponding function for this OpenCV. (may be it is there, i don't know).
Check out this SOF which explains how to do this using SciPy, which I don't want to use : Image transformation in OpenCV
So, here I took 4 corners of each sub-square and applied warp Perspective to each.
For that, first we find the centroids.
contour, hier = cv2.findContours(res,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
centroids = []
for cnt in contour:
mom = cv2.moments(cnt)
(x,y) = int(mom['m10']/mom['m00']), int(mom['m01']/mom['m00'])
cv2.circle(img,(x,y),4,(0,255,0),-1)
centroids.append((x,y))
But resulting centroids won't be sorted. Check out below image to see their order:
So we sort them from left to right, top to bottom.
centroids = np.array(centroids,dtype = np.float32)
c = centroids.reshape((100,2))
c2 = c[np.argsort(c[:,1])]
b = np.vstack([c2[i*10:(i+1)*10][np.argsort(c2[i*10:(i+1)*10,0])] for i in xrange(10)])
bm = b.reshape((10,10,2))
Now see below their order :
Finally we apply the transformation and create a new image of size 450x450.
output = np.zeros((450,450,3),np.uint8)
for i,j in enumerate(b):
ri = i/10
ci = i%10
if ci != 9 and ri!=9:
src = bm[ri:ri+2, ci:ci+2 , :].reshape((4,2))
dst = np.array( [ [ci*50,ri*50],[(ci+1)*50-1,ri*50],[ci*50,(ri+1)*50-1],[(ci+1)*50-1,(ri+1)*50-1] ], np.float32)
retval = cv2.getPerspectiveTransform(src,dst)
warp = cv2.warpPerspective(res2,retval,(450,450))
output[ri*50:(ri+1)*50-1 , ci*50:(ci+1)*50-1] = warp[ri*50:(ri+1)*50-1 , ci*50:(ci+1)*50-1].copy()
Result :
The result is almost same as nikie's, but code length is large. May be, better methods are available out there, but until then, this works OK.
Regards
ARK.
You could try to use some kind of grid based modeling of you arbitrary warping. And since the sudoku already is a grid, that shouldn't be too hard.
So you could try to detect the boundaries of each 3x3 subregion and then warp each region individually. If the detection succeeds it would give you a better approximation.
I thought this was a great post, and a great solution by ARK; very well laid out and explained.
I was working on a similar problem, and built the entire thing. There were some changes (i.e. xrange to range, arguments in cv2.findContours), but this should work out of the box (Python 3.5, Anaconda).
This is a compilation of the elements above, with some of the missing code added (i.e., labeling of points).
'''
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10196198/how-to-remove-convexity-defects-in-a-sudoku-square
'''
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = cv2.imread('test.png')
winname="raw image"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, img)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,100)
img = cv2.GaussianBlur(img,(5,5),0)
winname="blurred"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, img)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,150)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
mask = np.zeros((gray.shape),np.uint8)
kernel1 = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE,(11,11))
winname="gray"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, gray)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,200)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(gray,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,kernel1)
div = np.float32(gray)/(close)
res = np.uint8(cv2.normalize(div,div,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX))
res2 = cv2.cvtColor(res,cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR)
winname="res2"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, res2)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,250)
#find elements
thresh = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(res,255,0,1,19,2)
img_c, contour,hier = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
max_area = 0
best_cnt = None
for cnt in contour:
area = cv2.contourArea(cnt)
if area > 1000:
if area > max_area:
max_area = area
best_cnt = cnt
cv2.drawContours(mask,[best_cnt],0,255,-1)
cv2.drawContours(mask,[best_cnt],0,0,2)
res = cv2.bitwise_and(res,mask)
winname="puzzle only"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, res)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,300)
# vertical lines
kernelx = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT,(2,10))
dx = cv2.Sobel(res,cv2.CV_16S,1,0)
dx = cv2.convertScaleAbs(dx)
cv2.normalize(dx,dx,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
ret,close = cv2.threshold(dx,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,kernelx,iterations = 1)
img_d, contour, hier = cv2.findContours(close,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contour:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if h/w > 5:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,255,-1)
else:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,0,-1)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,None,iterations = 2)
closex = close.copy()
winname="vertical lines"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, img_d)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,350)
# find horizontal lines
kernely = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT,(10,2))
dy = cv2.Sobel(res,cv2.CV_16S,0,2)
dy = cv2.convertScaleAbs(dy)
cv2.normalize(dy,dy,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
ret,close = cv2.threshold(dy,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,kernely)
img_e, contour, hier = cv2.findContours(close,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contour:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if w/h > 5:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,255,-1)
else:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,0,-1)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,None,iterations = 2)
closey = close.copy()
winname="horizontal lines"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, img_e)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,400)
# intersection of these two gives dots
res = cv2.bitwise_and(closex,closey)
winname="intersections"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, res)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,450)
# text blue
textcolor=(0,255,0)
# points green
pointcolor=(255,0,0)
# find centroids and sort
img_f, contour, hier = cv2.findContours(res,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
centroids = []
for cnt in contour:
mom = cv2.moments(cnt)
(x,y) = int(mom['m10']/mom['m00']), int(mom['m01']/mom['m00'])
cv2.circle(img,(x,y),4,(0,255,0),-1)
centroids.append((x,y))
# sorting
centroids = np.array(centroids,dtype = np.float32)
c = centroids.reshape((100,2))
c2 = c[np.argsort(c[:,1])]
b = np.vstack([c2[i*10:(i+1)*10][np.argsort(c2[i*10:(i+1)*10,0])] for i in range(10)])
bm = b.reshape((10,10,2))
# make copy
labeled_in_order=res2.copy()
for index, pt in enumerate(b):
cv2.putText(labeled_in_order,str(index),tuple(pt),cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_DUPLEX, 0.75, textcolor)
cv2.circle(labeled_in_order, tuple(pt), 5, pointcolor)
winname="labeled in order"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, labeled_in_order)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,500)
# create final
output = np.zeros((450,450,3),np.uint8)
for i,j in enumerate(b):
ri = int(i/10) # row index
ci = i%10 # column index
if ci != 9 and ri!=9:
src = bm[ri:ri+2, ci:ci+2 , :].reshape((4,2))
dst = np.array( [ [ci*50,ri*50],[(ci+1)*50-1,ri*50],[ci*50,(ri+1)*50-1],[(ci+1)*50-1,(ri+1)*50-1] ], np.float32)
retval = cv2.getPerspectiveTransform(src,dst)
warp = cv2.warpPerspective(res2,retval,(450,450))
output[ri*50:(ri+1)*50-1 , ci*50:(ci+1)*50-1] = warp[ri*50:(ri+1)*50-1 , ci*50:(ci+1)*50-1].copy()
winname="final"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, output)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 600,100)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
I want to add that above method works only when sudoku board stands straight, otherwise height/width (or vice versa) ratio test will most probably fail and you will not be able to detect edges of sudoku. (I also want to add that if lines that are not perpendicular to the image borders, sobel operations (dx and dy) will still work as lines will still have edges with respect to both axes.)
To be able to detect straight lines you should work on contour or pixel-wise analysis such as contourArea/boundingRectArea, top left and bottom right points...
Edit: I managed to check whether a set of contours form a line or not by applying linear regression and checking the error. However linear regression performed poorly when slope of the line is too big (i.e. >1000) or it is very close to 0. Therefore applying the ratio test above (in most upvoted answer) before linear regression is logical and did work for me.
To remove undected corners I applied gamma correction with a gamma value of 0.8.
The red circle is drawn to show the missing corner.
The code is:
gamma = 0.8
invGamma = 1/gamma
table = np.array([((i / 255.0) ** invGamma) * 255
for i in np.arange(0, 256)]).astype("uint8")
cv2.LUT(img, table, img)
This is in addition to Abid Rahman's answer if some corner points are missing.

Copy a part of an image in opencv and python

I'm trying to split an image into several sub-images with opencv by identifying templates of the original image and then copy the regions where I matched those templates. I'm a TOTAL newbie to opencv! I've identified the sub-images using:
result = cv2.matchTemplate(img, template, cv2.TM_CCORR_NORMED)
After some cleanup I get a list of tuples called points in which I iterate to show the rectangles. tw and th is the template width and height respectively.
for pt in points:
re = cv2.rectangle(img, pt, (pt[0] + tw, pt[1] + th), 0, 2)
print('%s, %s' % (str(pt[0]), str(pt[1])))
count+=1
What I would like to accomplish is to save the octagons (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/239592/region01.png) into separated files.
How can I do this? I've read something about contours but I'm not sure how to use it. Ideally I would like to contour the octagon.
Thanks a lot for your help!
If template matching is working for you, stick to it. For instance, I considered the following template:
Then, we can pre-process the input in order to make it a binary one and discard small components. After this step, the template matching is performed. Then it is a matter of filtering the matches by means of discarding close ones (I've used a dummy method for that, so if there are too many matches you could see it taking some time). After we decide which points are far apart (and thus identify different hexagons), we can do minor adjusts to them in the following manner:
Sort by y-coordinate;
If two adjacent items start at a y-coordinate that is too close, then set them both to the same y-coord.
Now you can sort this point list in an appropriate order such that the crops are done in raster order. The cropping part is easily achieved using slicing provided by numpy.
import sys
import cv2
import numpy
outbasename = 'hexagon_%02d.png'
img = cv2.imread(sys.argv[1])
template = cv2.cvtColor(cv2.imread(sys.argv[2]), cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
theight, twidth = template.shape[:2]
# Binarize the input based on the saturation and value.
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
saturation = hsv[:,:,1]
value = hsv[:,:,2]
value[saturation > 35] = 255
value = cv2.threshold(value, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
# Pad the image.
value = cv2.copyMakeBorder(255 - value, 3, 3, 3, 3, cv2.BORDER_CONSTANT, value=0)
# Discard small components.
img_clean = numpy.zeros(value.shape, dtype=numpy.uint8)
contours, _ = cv2.findContours(value, cv2.RETR_LIST, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for i, c in enumerate(contours):
area = cv2.contourArea(c)
if area > 500:
cv2.drawContours(img_clean, contours, i, 255, 2)
def closest_pt(a, pt):
if not len(a):
return (float('inf'), float('inf'))
d = a - pt
return a[numpy.argmin((d * d).sum(1))]
match = cv2.matchTemplate(img_clean, template, cv2.TM_CCORR_NORMED)
# Filter matches.
threshold = 0.8
dist_threshold = twidth / 1.5
loc = numpy.where(match > threshold)
ptlist = numpy.zeros((len(loc[0]), 2), dtype=int)
count = 0
print "%d matches" % len(loc[0])
for pt in zip(*loc[::-1]):
cpt = closest_pt(ptlist[:count], pt)
dist = ((cpt[0] - pt[0]) ** 2 + (cpt[1] - pt[1]) ** 2) ** 0.5
if dist > dist_threshold:
ptlist[count] = pt
count += 1
# Adjust points (could do for the x coords too).
ptlist = ptlist[:count]
view = ptlist.ravel().view([('x', int), ('y', int)])
view.sort(order=['y', 'x'])
for i in xrange(1, ptlist.shape[0]):
prev, curr = ptlist[i - 1], ptlist[i]
if abs(curr[1] - prev[1]) < 5:
y = min(curr[1], prev[1])
curr[1], prev[1] = y, y
# Crop in raster order.
view.sort(order=['y', 'x'])
for i, pt in enumerate(ptlist, start=1):
cv2.imwrite(outbasename % i,
img[pt[1]-2:pt[1]+theight-2, pt[0]-2:pt[0]+twidth-2])
print 'Wrote %s' % (outbasename % i)
If you want only the contours of the hexagons, then crop on img_clean instead of img (but then it is pointless to sort the hexagons in raster order).
Here is a representation of the different regions that would be cut for your two examples without modifying the code above:
I am sorry, I didn't understand from your question on how do you relate matchTemplate and Contours.
Anyway, below is a small technique using contours. It is on the assumption that your other images are also like the one you provided. I am not sure if it works with your other images. But I think it would help to get a startup. Try this yourself and make necessary adjustments and modifications.
What I did :
1 - I needed the edge of octagons . So Thresholded Image using Otsu and apply dilation and erosion (or use any method you like that works well for all your images, beware of the edges in left edge of image).
2 - Then found contours (More about contours : http://goo.gl/r0ID0
3 - For each contours, find its convex hull, find its area(A) & perimeter(P)
4 - For a perfect octagon, P*P/A = 13.25 approximately. I used it here and cut it and saved it.
5 - You can see cropping it also removes some edges of octagon. If you want it, adjust the cropping dimension.
Code :
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = cv2.imread('region01.png')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
ret,thresh = cv2.threshold(gray,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
thresh = cv2.dilate(thresh,None,iterations = 2)
thresh = cv2.erode(thresh,None)
contours,hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
number = 0
for cnt in contours:
hull = cv2.convexHull(cnt)
area = cv2.contourArea(hull)
P = cv2.arcLength(hull,True)
if ((area != 0) and (13<= P**2/area <= 14)):
#cv2.drawContours(img,[hull],0,255,3)
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(hull)
number = number + 1
roi = img[y:y+h,x:x+w]
cv2.imshow(str(number),roi)
cv2.imwrite("1"+str(number)+".jpg",roi)
cv2.imshow('img',img)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Those 6 octagons will be stored as separate files.
Hope it helps !!!

How to remove convexity defects in a Sudoku square?

I was doing a fun project: Solving a Sudoku from an input image using OpenCV (as in Google goggles etc). And I have completed the task, but at the end I found a little problem for which I came here.
I did the programming using Python API of OpenCV 2.3.1.
Below is what I did :
Read the image
Find the contours
Select the one with maximum area, ( and also somewhat equivalent to square).
Find the corner points.
e.g. given below:
(Notice here that the green line correctly coincides with the true boundary of the Sudoku, so the Sudoku can be correctly warped. Check next image)
warp the image to a perfect square
eg image:
Perform OCR ( for which I used the method I have given in Simple Digit Recognition OCR in OpenCV-Python )
And the method worked well.
Problem:
Check out this image.
Performing the step 4 on this image gives the result below:
The red line drawn is the original contour which is the true outline of sudoku boundary.
The green line drawn is approximated contour which will be the outline of warped image.
Which of course, there is difference between green line and red line at the top edge of sudoku. So while warping, I am not getting the original boundary of the Sudoku.
My Question :
How can I warp the image on the correct boundary of the Sudoku, i.e. the red line OR how can I remove the difference between red line and green line? Is there any method for this in OpenCV?
I have a solution that works, but you'll have to translate it to OpenCV yourself. It's written in Mathematica.
The first step is to adjust the brightness in the image, by dividing each pixel with the result of a closing operation:
src = ColorConvert[Import["http://davemark.com/images/sudoku.jpg"], "Grayscale"];
white = Closing[src, DiskMatrix[5]];
srcAdjusted = Image[ImageData[src]/ImageData[white]]
The next step is to find the sudoku area, so I can ignore (mask out) the background. For that, I use connected component analysis, and select the component that's got the largest convex area:
components =
ComponentMeasurements[
ColorNegate#Binarize[srcAdjusted], {"ConvexArea", "Mask"}][[All,
2]];
largestComponent = Image[SortBy[components, First][[-1, 2]]]
By filling this image, I get a mask for the sudoku grid:
mask = FillingTransform[largestComponent]
Now, I can use a 2nd order derivative filter to find the vertical and horizontal lines in two separate images:
lY = ImageMultiply[MorphologicalBinarize[GaussianFilter[srcAdjusted, 3, {2, 0}], {0.02, 0.05}], mask];
lX = ImageMultiply[MorphologicalBinarize[GaussianFilter[srcAdjusted, 3, {0, 2}], {0.02, 0.05}], mask];
I use connected component analysis again to extract the grid lines from these images. The grid lines are much longer than the digits, so I can use caliper length to select only the grid lines-connected components. Sorting them by position, I get 2x10 mask images for each of the vertical/horizontal grid lines in the image:
verticalGridLineMasks =
SortBy[ComponentMeasurements[
lX, {"CaliperLength", "Centroid", "Mask"}, # > 100 &][[All,
2]], #[[2, 1]] &][[All, 3]];
horizontalGridLineMasks =
SortBy[ComponentMeasurements[
lY, {"CaliperLength", "Centroid", "Mask"}, # > 100 &][[All,
2]], #[[2, 2]] &][[All, 3]];
Next I take each pair of vertical/horizontal grid lines, dilate them, calculate the pixel-by-pixel intersection, and calculate the center of the result. These points are the grid line intersections:
centerOfGravity[l_] :=
ComponentMeasurements[Image[l], "Centroid"][[1, 2]]
gridCenters =
Table[centerOfGravity[
ImageData[Dilation[Image[h], DiskMatrix[2]]]*
ImageData[Dilation[Image[v], DiskMatrix[2]]]], {h,
horizontalGridLineMasks}, {v, verticalGridLineMasks}];
The last step is to define two interpolation functions for X/Y mapping through these points, and transform the image using these functions:
fnX = ListInterpolation[gridCenters[[All, All, 1]]];
fnY = ListInterpolation[gridCenters[[All, All, 2]]];
transformed =
ImageTransformation[
srcAdjusted, {fnX ## Reverse[#], fnY ## Reverse[#]} &, {9*50, 9*50},
PlotRange -> {{1, 10}, {1, 10}}, DataRange -> Full]
All of the operations are basic image processing function, so this should be possible in OpenCV, too. The spline-based image transformation might be harder, but I don't think you really need it. Probably using the perspective transformation you use now on each individual cell will give good enough results.
Nikie's answer solved my problem, but his answer was in Mathematica. So I thought I should give its OpenCV adaptation here. But after implementing I could see that OpenCV code is much bigger than nikie's mathematica code. And also, I couldn't find interpolation method done by nikie in OpenCV ( although it can be done using scipy, i will tell it when time comes.)
1. Image PreProcessing ( closing operation )
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = cv2.imread('dave.jpg')
img = cv2.GaussianBlur(img,(5,5),0)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
mask = np.zeros((gray.shape),np.uint8)
kernel1 = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE,(11,11))
close = cv2.morphologyEx(gray,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,kernel1)
div = np.float32(gray)/(close)
res = np.uint8(cv2.normalize(div,div,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX))
res2 = cv2.cvtColor(res,cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR)
Result :
2. Finding Sudoku Square and Creating Mask Image
thresh = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(res,255,0,1,19,2)
contour,hier = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
max_area = 0
best_cnt = None
for cnt in contour:
area = cv2.contourArea(cnt)
if area > 1000:
if area > max_area:
max_area = area
best_cnt = cnt
cv2.drawContours(mask,[best_cnt],0,255,-1)
cv2.drawContours(mask,[best_cnt],0,0,2)
res = cv2.bitwise_and(res,mask)
Result :
3. Finding Vertical lines
kernelx = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT,(2,10))
dx = cv2.Sobel(res,cv2.CV_16S,1,0)
dx = cv2.convertScaleAbs(dx)
cv2.normalize(dx,dx,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
ret,close = cv2.threshold(dx,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,kernelx,iterations = 1)
contour, hier = cv2.findContours(close,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contour:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if h/w > 5:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,255,-1)
else:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,0,-1)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,None,iterations = 2)
closex = close.copy()
Result :
4. Finding Horizontal Lines
kernely = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT,(10,2))
dy = cv2.Sobel(res,cv2.CV_16S,0,2)
dy = cv2.convertScaleAbs(dy)
cv2.normalize(dy,dy,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
ret,close = cv2.threshold(dy,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,kernely)
contour, hier = cv2.findContours(close,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contour:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if w/h > 5:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,255,-1)
else:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,0,-1)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,None,iterations = 2)
closey = close.copy()
Result :
Of course, this one is not so good.
5. Finding Grid Points
res = cv2.bitwise_and(closex,closey)
Result :
6. Correcting the defects
Here, nikie does some kind of interpolation, about which I don't have much knowledge. And i couldn't find any corresponding function for this OpenCV. (may be it is there, i don't know).
Check out this SOF which explains how to do this using SciPy, which I don't want to use : Image transformation in OpenCV
So, here I took 4 corners of each sub-square and applied warp Perspective to each.
For that, first we find the centroids.
contour, hier = cv2.findContours(res,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
centroids = []
for cnt in contour:
mom = cv2.moments(cnt)
(x,y) = int(mom['m10']/mom['m00']), int(mom['m01']/mom['m00'])
cv2.circle(img,(x,y),4,(0,255,0),-1)
centroids.append((x,y))
But resulting centroids won't be sorted. Check out below image to see their order:
So we sort them from left to right, top to bottom.
centroids = np.array(centroids,dtype = np.float32)
c = centroids.reshape((100,2))
c2 = c[np.argsort(c[:,1])]
b = np.vstack([c2[i*10:(i+1)*10][np.argsort(c2[i*10:(i+1)*10,0])] for i in xrange(10)])
bm = b.reshape((10,10,2))
Now see below their order :
Finally we apply the transformation and create a new image of size 450x450.
output = np.zeros((450,450,3),np.uint8)
for i,j in enumerate(b):
ri = i/10
ci = i%10
if ci != 9 and ri!=9:
src = bm[ri:ri+2, ci:ci+2 , :].reshape((4,2))
dst = np.array( [ [ci*50,ri*50],[(ci+1)*50-1,ri*50],[ci*50,(ri+1)*50-1],[(ci+1)*50-1,(ri+1)*50-1] ], np.float32)
retval = cv2.getPerspectiveTransform(src,dst)
warp = cv2.warpPerspective(res2,retval,(450,450))
output[ri*50:(ri+1)*50-1 , ci*50:(ci+1)*50-1] = warp[ri*50:(ri+1)*50-1 , ci*50:(ci+1)*50-1].copy()
Result :
The result is almost same as nikie's, but code length is large. May be, better methods are available out there, but until then, this works OK.
Regards
ARK.
You could try to use some kind of grid based modeling of you arbitrary warping. And since the sudoku already is a grid, that shouldn't be too hard.
So you could try to detect the boundaries of each 3x3 subregion and then warp each region individually. If the detection succeeds it would give you a better approximation.
I thought this was a great post, and a great solution by ARK; very well laid out and explained.
I was working on a similar problem, and built the entire thing. There were some changes (i.e. xrange to range, arguments in cv2.findContours), but this should work out of the box (Python 3.5, Anaconda).
This is a compilation of the elements above, with some of the missing code added (i.e., labeling of points).
'''
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10196198/how-to-remove-convexity-defects-in-a-sudoku-square
'''
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = cv2.imread('test.png')
winname="raw image"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, img)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,100)
img = cv2.GaussianBlur(img,(5,5),0)
winname="blurred"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, img)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,150)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
mask = np.zeros((gray.shape),np.uint8)
kernel1 = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE,(11,11))
winname="gray"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, gray)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,200)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(gray,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,kernel1)
div = np.float32(gray)/(close)
res = np.uint8(cv2.normalize(div,div,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX))
res2 = cv2.cvtColor(res,cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR)
winname="res2"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, res2)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,250)
#find elements
thresh = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(res,255,0,1,19,2)
img_c, contour,hier = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
max_area = 0
best_cnt = None
for cnt in contour:
area = cv2.contourArea(cnt)
if area > 1000:
if area > max_area:
max_area = area
best_cnt = cnt
cv2.drawContours(mask,[best_cnt],0,255,-1)
cv2.drawContours(mask,[best_cnt],0,0,2)
res = cv2.bitwise_and(res,mask)
winname="puzzle only"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, res)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,300)
# vertical lines
kernelx = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT,(2,10))
dx = cv2.Sobel(res,cv2.CV_16S,1,0)
dx = cv2.convertScaleAbs(dx)
cv2.normalize(dx,dx,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
ret,close = cv2.threshold(dx,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,kernelx,iterations = 1)
img_d, contour, hier = cv2.findContours(close,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contour:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if h/w > 5:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,255,-1)
else:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,0,-1)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,None,iterations = 2)
closex = close.copy()
winname="vertical lines"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, img_d)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,350)
# find horizontal lines
kernely = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT,(10,2))
dy = cv2.Sobel(res,cv2.CV_16S,0,2)
dy = cv2.convertScaleAbs(dy)
cv2.normalize(dy,dy,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
ret,close = cv2.threshold(dy,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,kernely)
img_e, contour, hier = cv2.findContours(close,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contour:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if w/h > 5:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,255,-1)
else:
cv2.drawContours(close,[cnt],0,0,-1)
close = cv2.morphologyEx(close,cv2.MORPH_DILATE,None,iterations = 2)
closey = close.copy()
winname="horizontal lines"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, img_e)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,400)
# intersection of these two gives dots
res = cv2.bitwise_and(closex,closey)
winname="intersections"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, res)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,450)
# text blue
textcolor=(0,255,0)
# points green
pointcolor=(255,0,0)
# find centroids and sort
img_f, contour, hier = cv2.findContours(res,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
centroids = []
for cnt in contour:
mom = cv2.moments(cnt)
(x,y) = int(mom['m10']/mom['m00']), int(mom['m01']/mom['m00'])
cv2.circle(img,(x,y),4,(0,255,0),-1)
centroids.append((x,y))
# sorting
centroids = np.array(centroids,dtype = np.float32)
c = centroids.reshape((100,2))
c2 = c[np.argsort(c[:,1])]
b = np.vstack([c2[i*10:(i+1)*10][np.argsort(c2[i*10:(i+1)*10,0])] for i in range(10)])
bm = b.reshape((10,10,2))
# make copy
labeled_in_order=res2.copy()
for index, pt in enumerate(b):
cv2.putText(labeled_in_order,str(index),tuple(pt),cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_DUPLEX, 0.75, textcolor)
cv2.circle(labeled_in_order, tuple(pt), 5, pointcolor)
winname="labeled in order"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, labeled_in_order)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 100,500)
# create final
output = np.zeros((450,450,3),np.uint8)
for i,j in enumerate(b):
ri = int(i/10) # row index
ci = i%10 # column index
if ci != 9 and ri!=9:
src = bm[ri:ri+2, ci:ci+2 , :].reshape((4,2))
dst = np.array( [ [ci*50,ri*50],[(ci+1)*50-1,ri*50],[ci*50,(ri+1)*50-1],[(ci+1)*50-1,(ri+1)*50-1] ], np.float32)
retval = cv2.getPerspectiveTransform(src,dst)
warp = cv2.warpPerspective(res2,retval,(450,450))
output[ri*50:(ri+1)*50-1 , ci*50:(ci+1)*50-1] = warp[ri*50:(ri+1)*50-1 , ci*50:(ci+1)*50-1].copy()
winname="final"
cv2.namedWindow(winname)
cv2.imshow(winname, output)
cv2.moveWindow(winname, 600,100)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
I want to add that above method works only when sudoku board stands straight, otherwise height/width (or vice versa) ratio test will most probably fail and you will not be able to detect edges of sudoku. (I also want to add that if lines that are not perpendicular to the image borders, sobel operations (dx and dy) will still work as lines will still have edges with respect to both axes.)
To be able to detect straight lines you should work on contour or pixel-wise analysis such as contourArea/boundingRectArea, top left and bottom right points...
Edit: I managed to check whether a set of contours form a line or not by applying linear regression and checking the error. However linear regression performed poorly when slope of the line is too big (i.e. >1000) or it is very close to 0. Therefore applying the ratio test above (in most upvoted answer) before linear regression is logical and did work for me.
To remove undected corners I applied gamma correction with a gamma value of 0.8.
The red circle is drawn to show the missing corner.
The code is:
gamma = 0.8
invGamma = 1/gamma
table = np.array([((i / 255.0) ** invGamma) * 255
for i in np.arange(0, 256)]).astype("uint8")
cv2.LUT(img, table, img)
This is in addition to Abid Rahman's answer if some corner points are missing.

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