Creating Bounding rotated boxes and ellipses for contours

Goal

In this tutorial you will learn how to:

• Use the OpenCV function cv::minAreaRect
• Use the OpenCV function cv::fitEllipse

Theory

Code

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#include "opencv2/imgcodecs.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

Mat src; Mat src_gray;
int thresh = 100;
int max_thresh = 255;
RNG rng(12345);

void thresh_callback(int, void* );

int main( int, char** argv )
{
  src = imread( argv[1], 1 );

  cvtColor( src, src_gray, COLOR_BGR2GRAY );
  blur( src_gray, src_gray, Size(3,3) );

  const char* source_window = "Source";
  namedWindow( source_window, WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );
  imshow( source_window, src );

  createTrackbar( " Threshold:", "Source", &thresh, max_thresh, thresh_callback );
  thresh_callback( 0, 0 );

  waitKey(0);
  return(0);
}

void thresh_callback(int, void* )
{
  Mat threshold_output;
  vector<vector<Point> > contours;
  vector<Vec4i> hierarchy;

  threshold( src_gray, threshold_output, thresh, 255, THRESH_BINARY );
  findContours( threshold_output, contours, hierarchy, RETR_TREE, CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE, Point(0, 0) );

  vector<RotatedRect> minRect( contours.size() );
  vector<RotatedRect> minEllipse( contours.size() );

  for( size_t i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++ )
     { minRect[i] = minAreaRect( Mat(contours[i]) );
       if( contours[i].size() > 5 )
         { minEllipse[i] = fitEllipse( Mat(contours[i]) ); }
     }

  Mat drawing = Mat::zeros( threshold_output.size(), CV_8UC3 );
  for( size_t i = 0; i< contours.size(); i++ )
     {
       Scalar color = Scalar( rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0,255), rng.uniform(0,255) );
       // contour
       drawContours( drawing, contours, (int)i, color, 1, 8, vector<Vec4i>(), 0, Point() );
       // ellipse
       ellipse( drawing, minEllipse[i], color, 2, 8 );
       // rotated rectangle
       Point2f rect_points[4]; minRect[i].points( rect_points );
       for( int j = 0; j < 4; j++ )
          line( drawing, rect_points[j], rect_points[(j+1)%4], color, 1, 8 );
     }

  namedWindow( "Contours", WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );
  imshow( "Contours", drawing );
}

Explanation

Result

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