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OpenCV inverse warpPolar output out of frame

When I try to make an inverse polar transformation to my image, the output is outside of the output image. There are also some weird white patterns on the top. I tried to make the output image larger but the circle is on the left side so it didn't help.
I am trying to make a line circle using warpPolar function, for that first I'm flipping the line and giving it a black area as shown on the image, then using the cv2.warpPolar function with WARP_INVERSE_MAP flag.
How can I fully draw the circle, and get its bounding box is my question.
line = np.ones(shape=(20,475),dtype=np.uint8)*255
flipped = cv2.rotate(line,cv2.ROTATE_90_CLOCKWISE)
cv2.imshow('flipped',flipped)
h,w = flipped.shape
radius = int(h / (2*np.pi))
new_image = np.zeros(shape=(h,radius+w),dtype=np.uint8)
h2,w2 = new_image.shape
new_image[: ,w2-w:w2] = flipped
cv2.imshow('polar',new_image)
h,w = new_image.shape
center = (w/2,h)
output= cv2.warpPolar(new_image,center=center,maxRadius=radius,dsize=(1500,1500),flags=cv2.WARP_INVERSE_MAP + cv2.WARP_POLAR_LINEAR)
cv2.imshow('output',output)
cv2.waitKey(0)

Note: I am not getting the same result as you showed above when I tried the same code. You may miss some code lines to add ?
If I didn't misunderstand your problem,you are trying to get this result: (If I am wrong, I will update the answer accordingly)
The only point you are missing is that defining the center and radius. You are making inverse transform here, the input is created by you not warpPolar. Since you are defining size as (1500,1500), you need to update center and radius accordingly. Here is my code giving this result:
import cv2
import numpy as np
line = np.ones(shape=(20,475),dtype=np.uint8)*255
flipped = cv2.rotate(line,cv2.ROTATE_90_CLOCKWISE)
cv2.imshow('flipped',flipped)
h,w = flipped.shape
radius = int(h / (2*np.pi))
new_image = np.zeros(shape=(h,radius+w),dtype=np.uint8)
h2,w2 = new_image.shape
new_image[: ,w2-w:w2] = flipped
cv2.imshow('polar',new_image)
h,w = new_image.shape
center = (750,750)
maxRadius = 750
output= cv2.warpPolar(new_image,center=center,maxRadius=radius,dsize=(1500,1500),flags=cv2.WARP_INVERSE_MAP + cv2.WARP_POLAR_LINEAR)
cv2.imshow('output',output)
cv2.waitKey(0)

Is there a module in python that can draw lines on an original image?

As mentioned in the title, I'm hoping to visualize my result in the appendix.
where the red lines are drawn by programs given some specific degree angles. Is there a module in python that provide such functions? How can I do this?

As commentet the linked awnser Plot over an image background in python shows how to use matplotlib to plot simple geometrics over an existing image. If you want something more sophisticated (which also maybe changed over time) matplotlib would work but maybe will not perform as you want and includes a lot of code for all the element that you want to overlay.
Instead you should provide your overlay as an image and rotate it with opencv and the overlay the matrices.
I provide you a simple example:
Here we have the background Image:
We want to overlay the following circle:
and this cross, but rotated by 36 degree:
The following code will provide the wanted result:
import cv2
import numpy as np
def rotate_image(image, angle):
image_center = tuple(np.array(image.shape[1::-1]) / 2)
rot_mat = cv2.getRotationMatrix2D(image_center, angle, 1.0)
result = cv2.warpAffine(image, rot_mat, image.shape[1::-1], flags=cv2.INTER_LINEAR)
return result
def overlay_images(img1, img2):
if img1.shape[2] != 4 or img2.shape[2] != 4:
print('png needs Alphachannel!')
return
alpha_img1 = img1[:,:,3] / 255.0
alpha_img2 = img2[:,:,3] / 255.0
for color in range(0, 3):
img1[:,:,color] = alpha_img2 * img2[:,:,color] + \
alpha_img1 * img1[:,:,color] * (1 - alpha_img2)
img1[:,:,3] = (1 - (1 - alpha_img2) * (1 - alpha_img1)) * 255
return img1
img_bg = cv2.imread('img1.png',cv2.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)
img_circle = cv2.imread('img2.png',cv2.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)
img_cross = cv2.imread('img3.png',cv2.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)
img_rotate_36 = rotate_image(img_cross, 36)
img1_2 = overlay_images(img_bg, img_circle)
img1_2_3 = overlay_images(img1_2, img_rotate_36)
cv2.imwrite('img_rotated.png', img1_2_3)
cv2.imshow('Rotatet Image', img1_2_3)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
The interesting part are the rotation and the overlay. I used for this situation for the overlay this solution https://stackoverflow.com/a/59211216/10985257 because the cv2.addWeighted function seems to have problems with alpha channel. The algorithm used is called alpha composition. The rotation is based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/9042907/10985257 and is simmple affine Transformation based on a rotary matrix.
I put both application in a function in the code above.

Improving image deskew using Python and OpenCV

The code I've produce to detect and correct skew is giving me inconsistent results. I'm currently working on a project which utilizes OCR text extraction on images (via Python and OpenCV), so removing skew is key if accurate results are desired. My code uses cv2.minAreaRect to detect skew.
The images I'm using are all identical (and will be in the future) so I'm unsure as to what is causing these inconsistencies. I've included two sets of before and after images (including the skew value from cv2.minAreaRect) where I applied my code, one showing successul removal of skew and showing skew was not removed (looks like it added even more skew).
Image 1 Before (-87.88721466064453)
Image 1 After (successful deskew)
Image 2 Before (-5.766754150390625)
Image 2 After (unsuccessful deskew)
My code is below. Note: I've worked with many more images than those I've included here. The detected skew thus far has always been in the ranges [-10, 0) or (-90, -80], so I attempted to account for this in my code.
img_gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
img_gray = cv2.bitwise_not(img_gray)
thresh = cv2.threshold(img_gray, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY | cv2.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
coords = np.column_stack(np.where(thresh > 0))
angle = cv2.minAreaRect(coords)[-1]
if (angle < 0 and angle >= -10):
angle = -angle #this was intended to undo skew for values in [-10, 0) by simply rotating using the opposite sign
else:
angle = (90 + angle)/2
(h, w) = img.shape[:2]
center = (w // 2, h // 2)
M = cv2.getRotationMatrix2D(center, angle, 1.0)
deskewed = cv2.warpAffine(img, M, (w, h), flags = cv2.INTER_CUBIC, borderMode = cv2.BORDER_REPLICATE)
I've looked through various posts and articles to find an adequate solution, but have been unsuccessful. This post was the most helpful in understanding the skew values, but even then I couldn't get very far.

A very good text deskew tool can be found in Python Wand, which uses ImageMagick. It is based upon the Radon transform.
Form 1:
Form 2:
from wand.image import Image
from wand.display import display
with Image(filename='form1.png') as img:
img.deskew(0.4*img.quantum_range)
img.save(filename='form1_deskew.png')
display(img)
with Image(filename='form2.png') as img:
img.deskew(0.4*img.quantum_range)
img.save(filename='form2_deskew.png')
display(img)
Form 1 deskewed:
Form 2 deskewed:

I already answered this here: How to deskew a scanned text page with ImageMagick?
Following is the piece of code that can help you deskew the image:
import numpy as np
from skimage import io
from skimage.transform import rotate
from skimage.color import rgb2gray
from deskew import determine_skew
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
def deskew(_img):
image = io.imread(_img)
grayscale = rgb2gray(image)
angle = determine_skew(grayscale)
rotated = rotate(image, angle, resize=True) * 255
return rotated.astype(np.uint8)
def display_before_after(_original):
plt.subplot(1, 2, 1)
plt.imshow(io.imread(_original))
plt.subplot(1, 2, 2)
plt.imshow(deskew(_original))
display_before_after('img_35h.jpg')
Before:
After:
Reference and Source: http://aishelf.org/deskew/

How to improve depth map and what are my stereo images lacking?

I've been trying to convert stereo images into a depth map with use of opencv, but not matter what I do it seems to come out unreadable.
I was able to get an accurate depth image of example images that were provided in the opencv tutorial but not on any other image. Even when I attempted to download other premade, calibrated stereo image from online I get terrible results that are neither accurate nor are even close to quality that I get with the example images.
here is my main python script that I use to make the depth map:
import numpy as np
import cv2
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
imgL = cv2.imread('calimg_L.png',0)
imgR = cv2.imread('calimg_R.png',0)
# imgL = cv2.imread('./images/example_L.png',0)
# imgR = cv2.imread('./images/example_R.png',0)
stereo = cv2.StereoSGBM_create(numDisparities=16, blockSize=15)
disparity = stereo.compute(imgR,imgL)
norm_image = cv2.normalize(disparity, None, alpha = 0, beta = 1, norm_type=cv2.NORM_MINMAX, dtype=cv2.CV_32F)
cv2.imwrite("disparityImage.jpg", norm_image)
plt.imshow(norm_image)
plt.show()
where calimg_L.png is a calibrated version of the original image.
Here is the code I use to calibrate my images:
import numpy as np
import cv2
import glob
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
def createCalibratedImage(inputImage, outputName):
# termination criteria
criteria = (cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_EPS + cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_MAX_ITER, 30, 0.001)
# prepare object points, like (0,0,0), (1,0,0), (2,0,0) ....,(6,5,0)
objp = np.zeros((3*3,3), np.float32)
objp[:,:2] = np.mgrid[0:3,0:3].T.reshape(-1,2)
# Arrays to store object points and image points from all the images.
objpoints = [] # 3d point in real world space
imgpoints = [] # 2d points in image plane.
# org = cv2.imread('./chess.jpg')
# orig_cal_img = cv2.resize(org, (384, 288))
# cv2.imwrite("cal_chess.jpg", orig_cal_img)
images = glob.glob('./chess_webcam/*.jpg')
for fname in images:
print('file in use: ' + fname)
img = cv2.imread(fname)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# Find the chess board corners
ret, corners = cv2.findChessboardCorners(gray, (3,3),None)
# print("doing the thing");
print('status: ' + str(ret));
# If found, add object points, image points (after refining them)
if ret == True:
# print("found something");
objpoints.append(objp)
cv2.cornerSubPix(gray,corners,(11,11),(-1,-1),criteria)
imgpoints.append(corners)
# Draw and display the corners
cv2.drawChessboardCorners(img, (3,3), corners,ret)
cv2.imshow('img',img)
cv2.waitKey(500)
ret, mtx, dist, rvecs, tvecs = cv2.calibrateCamera(objpoints, imgpoints, gray.shape[::-1],None,None)
img = inputImage
h, w = img.shape[:2]
newcameramtx, roi=cv2.getOptimalNewCameraMatrix(mtx,dist,(w,h),1,(w,h))
# undistort
print('undistorting...')
mapx,mapy = cv2.initUndistortRectifyMap(mtx,dist,None,newcameramtx,(w,h),5)
dst = cv2.remap(inputImage ,mapx,mapy,cv2.INTER_LINEAR)
# crop the image
x,y,w,h = roi
dst = dst[y:y+h, x:x+w]
# cv2.imwrite('calibresult.png',dst)
cv2.imwrite(outputName + '.png',dst)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
original_L = cv2.imread('capture_L.jpg')
original_R = cv2.imread('capture_R.jpg')
createCalibratedImage(original_R, "calimg_R")
createCalibratedImage(original_L, "calimg_L")
print("images calibrated and outputed")
This code was taken from opencv tutorial on how to calibrate images and was provided at least 16 images of the chess board, but was only able to identify the chessboard in about 4 - 5 of them. The reason I used such a relatively small grid search of 3x3 is because anything higher left me without any images to use for calibration due to its inability to find the chessboard.
Here is what I get from an example image(sorry for weird link, couldn't find how to upload):
https://ibb.co/DYMcdZc
here is the original:
https://ibb.co/gMkqyXD
https://ibb.co/YQZY40C
This acts a it should, but when I use it with any other image it gives me a mess, for example:
output:
https://ibb.co/kXwgDVn
looks like just a mess of pixels, to be fair when you put it into 'gray' on imshow it looks more readable but it is not very representative of the image's depth, here are the originals:
https://ibb.co/vqDKGS0
https://ibb.co/f0X1gMB
Even worse so, when I take images myself and do calibrate them through the chessboard code, it comes out as just a random mess of white and black pixels, and values of some goes into negatives and some pixels are impossibly high value.
tl;dr I can't get any stereo images to be made into a depth map even though the example image works just fine, why is that?

First I want to say that obtaining a good depth map is not such a simple task, and using the basic StereoMatching won't always lead to good results. Nevertheless, something better can be achieved.
In order:
Calibration: you should be able to find the checkerboard in more images, 4/5 is a very low number for calibration, it is very hard to estimate correctly the camera parameters with such low number. How do the images look like? Did you read them as grayscale images? Usually also using a different number for row and column (not 3x3 grid, like 4x3) helps to understand the checkerboard position (otherwise it could be ambiguous which side is up or right, for example, a 90 rotation would result in 0 rotation).
Rectification: this can be easily checked by looking at the images. Open two images on two different layers (using GIMP or similar) and check for similar points. After you rectified the images, they should lie on the same line. Are they really on the same line? If yes, rectification work, otherwise, you need a better calibration. The stereo matching won't work without this step.
Stereo Matching: if all above steps are correct, then you may have a problem on the parameters of the stereo matching. First thing to check is disparity range (since it looks like you have different resolution between example images and your images, you should check and adapt that value). Min disparity can also help (if you reduce the disparity range, you reduce the error possibilities) and also block size (15 is quite big, smaller is also enough).
From what you say, my guess would be the problem is on the calibration. You should try to check the rectified images, and if the problem is there try to acquire a new dataset (or find online a better one) and calibrate your images there. Once you can calibrate and rectify your images correctly, you should get better results.
I see the code is similar to the tutorial here so I guess that's correct and the main problem are the images. Hope this can help,I can help you more if you test and see where the probelm is!

Detect if an OCR text image is upside down

I have some hundreds of images (scanned documents), most of them are skewed. I wanted to de-skew them using Python.
Here is the code I used:
import numpy as np
import cv2
from skimage.transform import radon
filename = 'path_to_filename'
# Load file, converting to grayscale
img = cv2.imread(filename)
I = cv2.cvtColor(img, COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
h, w = I.shape
# If the resolution is high, resize the image to reduce processing time.
if (w > 640):
I = cv2.resize(I, (640, int((h / w) * 640)))
I = I - np.mean(I) # Demean; make the brightness extend above and below zero
# Do the radon transform
sinogram = radon(I)
# Find the RMS value of each row and find "busiest" rotation,
# where the transform is lined up perfectly with the alternating dark
# text and white lines
r = np.array([np.sqrt(np.mean(np.abs(line) ** 2)) for line in sinogram.transpose()])
rotation = np.argmax(r)
print('Rotation: {:.2f} degrees'.format(90 - rotation))
# Rotate and save with the original resolution
M = cv2.getRotationMatrix2D((w/2,h/2),90 - rotation,1)
dst = cv2.warpAffine(img,M,(w,h))
cv2.imwrite('rotated.jpg', dst)
This code works well with most of the documents, except with some angles: (180 and 0) and (90 and 270) are often detected as the same angle (i.e it does not make difference between (180 and 0) and (90 and 270)). So I get a lot of upside-down documents.
Here is an example:
The resulted image that I get is the same as the input image.
Is there any suggestion to detect if an image is upside down using Opencv and Python?
PS: I tried to check the orientation using EXIF data, but it didn't lead to any solution.
EDIT:
It is possible to detect the orientation using Tesseract (pytesseract for Python), but it is only possible when the image contains a lot of characters.
For anyone who may need this:
import cv2
import pytesseract
print(pytesseract.image_to_osd(cv2.imread(file_name)))
If the document contains enough characters, it is possible for Tesseract to detect the orientation. However, when the image has few lines, the orientation angle suggested by Tesseract is usually wrong. So this can not be a 100% solution.

Python3/OpenCV4 script to align scanned documents.
Rotate the document and sum the rows. When the document has 0 and 180 degrees of rotation, there will be a lot of black pixels in the image:
Use a score keeping method. Score each image for it's likeness to a zebra pattern. The image with the best score has the correct rotation. The image you linked to was off by 0.5 degrees. I omitted some functions for readability, the full code can be found here.
# Rotate the image around in a circle
angle = 0
while angle <= 360:
# Rotate the source image
img = rotate(src, angle)
# Crop the center 1/3rd of the image (roi is filled with text)
h,w = img.shape
buffer = min(h, w) - int(min(h,w)/1.15)
roi = img[int(h/2-buffer):int(h/2+buffer), int(w/2-buffer):int(w/2+buffer)]
# Create background to draw transform on
bg = np.zeros((buffer*2, buffer*2), np.uint8)
# Compute the sums of the rows
row_sums = sum_rows(roi)
# High score --> Zebra stripes
score = np.count_nonzero(row_sums)
scores.append(score)
# Image has best rotation
if score <= min(scores):
# Save the rotatied image
print('found optimal rotation')
best_rotation = img.copy()
k = display_data(roi, row_sums, buffer)
if k == 27: break
# Increment angle and try again
angle += .75
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
How to tell if the document is upside down? Fill in the area from the top of the document to the first non-black pixel in the image. Measure the area in yellow. The image that has the smallest area will be the one that is right-side-up:
# Find the area from the top of page to top of image
_, bg = area_to_top_of_text(best_rotation.copy())
right_side_up = sum(sum(bg))
# Flip image and try again
best_rotation_flipped = rotate(best_rotation, 180)
_, bg = area_to_top_of_text(best_rotation_flipped.copy())
upside_down = sum(sum(bg))
# Check which area is larger
if right_side_up < upside_down: aligned_image = best_rotation
else: aligned_image = best_rotation_flipped
# Save aligned image
cv2.imwrite('/home/stephen/Desktop/best_rotation.png', 255-aligned_image)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Assuming you did run the angle-correction already on the image, you can try the following to find out if it is flipped:
Project the corrected image to the y-axis, so that you get a 'peak' for each line. Important: There are actually almost always two sub-peaks!
Smooth this projection by convolving with a gaussian in order to get rid of fine structure, noise, etc.
For each peak, check if the stronger sub-peak is on top or at the bottom.
Calculate the fraction of peaks that have sub-peaks on the bottom side. This is your scalar value that gives you the confidence that the image is oriented correctly.
The peak finding in step 3 is done by finding sections with above average values. The sub-peaks are then found via argmax.
Here's a figure to illustrate the approach; A few lines of you example image
Blue: Original projection
Orange: smoothed projection
Horizontal line: average of the smoothed projection for the whole image.
here's some code that does this:
import cv2
import numpy as np
# load image, convert to grayscale, threshold it at 127 and invert.
page = cv2.imread('Page.jpg')
page = cv2.cvtColor(page, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
page = cv2.threshold(page, 127, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)[1]
# project the page to the side and smooth it with a gaussian
projection = np.sum(page, 1)
gaussian_filter = np.exp(-(np.arange(-3, 3, 0.1)**2))
gaussian_filter /= np.sum(gaussian_filter)
smooth = np.convolve(projection, gaussian_filter)
# find the pixel values where we expect lines to start and end
mask = smooth > np.average(smooth)
edges = np.convolve(mask, [1, -1])
line_starts = np.where(edges == 1)[0]
line_endings = np.where(edges == -1)[0]
# count lines with peaks on the lower side
lower_peaks = 0
for start, end in zip(line_starts, line_endings):
line = smooth[start:end]
if np.argmax(line) < len(line)/2:
lower_peaks += 1
print(lower_peaks / len(line_starts))
this prints 0.125 for the given image, so this is not oriented correctly and must be flipped.
Note that this approach might break badly if there are images or anything not organized in lines in the image (maybe math or pictures). Another problem would be too few lines, resulting in bad statistics.
Also different fonts might result in different distributions. You can try this on a few images and see if the approach works. I don't have enough data.

You can use the Alyn module. To install it:
pip install alyn
Then to use it to deskew images(Taken from the homepage):
from alyn import Deskew
d = Deskew(
input_file='path_to_file',
display_image='preview the image on screen',
output_file='path_for_deskewed image',
r_angle='offest_angle_in_degrees_to_control_orientation')`
d.run()
Note that Alyn is only for deskewing text.