Image Matching always returns a location

asked 2013-08-19 20:40:43 -0600

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updated 2013-08-21 02:47:45 -0600

StevenPuttemans

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Why does image matching always return a found match location? Shouldn't just return 0,0 if the image isn't found?

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What did you call "image matching"? matchTemplate? DescriptorMatcher (FLANN, BF)?

Mathieu Barnachon ( 2013-08-19 21:48:57 -0600 )edit

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StevenPuttemans ( 2013-08-21 02:50:49 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-08-21 17:44:30 -0600

Mathieu Barnachon

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matchTemplate isn't returning a result each time. It computes the overlapping of the template to the image, with the specified method. Therefore, there is always a results (for all pixels, the square difference, or the correlation, ...). When you use MinMaxLocation to find the "most probable position of the template on the image", I insist on the "most probable", you have a score, that you can threshold if it's too low. It's up to you and depend on your context.