In this tutorial you will learn:
To mention a few:
In this tutorial we will study the corner features, specifically.
Let’s look for corners. Since corners represents a variation in the gradient in the image, we will look for this “variation”.
Consider a grayscale image . We are going to sweep a window (with displacements in the x direction and in the right direction) and will calculate the variation of intensity.
where:
Since we are looking for windows with corners, we are looking for windows with a large variation in intensity. Hence, we have to maximize the equation above, specifically the term:
Using Taylor expansion:
Expanding the equation and cancelling properly:
Which can be expressed in a matrix form as:
Let’s denote:
So, our equation now is:
A score is calculated for each window, to determine if it can possibly contain a corner:
where:
a window with a score greater than a certain value is considered a “corner”
This tutorial code’s is shown lines below. You can also download it from here
#include "opencv2/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace cv;
using namespace std;
/// Global variables
Mat src, src_gray;
int thresh = 200;
int max_thresh = 255;
char* source_window = "Source image";
char* corners_window = "Corners detected";
/// Function header
void cornerHarris_demo( int, void* );
/** @function main */
int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
/// Load source image and convert it to gray
src = imread( argv[1], 1 );
cvtColor( src, src_gray, COLOR_BGR2GRAY );
/// Create a window and a trackbar
namedWindow( source_window, WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );
createTrackbar( "Threshold: ", source_window, &thresh, max_thresh, cornerHarris_demo );
imshow( source_window, src );
cornerHarris_demo( 0, 0 );
waitKey(0);
return(0);
}
/** @function cornerHarris_demo */
void cornerHarris_demo( int, void* )
{
Mat dst, dst_norm, dst_norm_scaled;
dst = Mat::zeros( src.size(), CV_32FC1 );
/// Detector parameters
int blockSize = 2;
int apertureSize = 3;
double k = 0.04;
/// Detecting corners
cornerHarris( src_gray, dst, blockSize, apertureSize, k, BORDER_DEFAULT );
/// Normalizing
normalize( dst, dst_norm, 0, 255, NORM_MINMAX, CV_32FC1, Mat() );
convertScaleAbs( dst_norm, dst_norm_scaled );
/// Drawing a circle around corners
for( int j = 0; j < dst_norm.rows ; j++ )
{ for( int i = 0; i < dst_norm.cols; i++ )
{
if( (int) dst_norm.at<float>(j,i) > thresh )
{
circle( dst_norm_scaled, Point( i, j ), 5, Scalar(0), 2, 8, 0 );
}
}
}
/// Showing the result
namedWindow( corners_window, WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );
imshow( corners_window, dst_norm_scaled );
}