find contours in an image [closed]

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If you already have a binary image, then you need just to do findContours, then for each contour you can do a boundingRect:

std::vector< std::vector< cv::Point > > contours;
std::vector< cv::Vec4i > hierarchy;

cv::findContours(threshold_output, contours, hierarchy, cv::RETR_TREE, cv::CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE, cv::Point(0, 0));

std::vector< std::vector< cv::Point > > contours_poly(contours.size());
std::vector< cv::Rect > boundRect(contours.size());

for(int i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++)
{
    cv::approxPolyDP(cv::Mat(contours[i]), contours_poly[i], 3, true);
    cv::boundRect[i] = cv::boundingRect(cv::Mat(contours_poly[i]));
}

like in this tutorial

What you can do is to play a little with the flags of the functions:

cv::threshold(image, threshold_output, thr, 255, cv::THRESH_BINARY_INV);

And when searching for contours, then use

cv::findContours(threshold_output, contours, hierarchy, cv::RETR_EXTERNAL, cv::CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE, Point(0, 0));

For better understanding the findContours functions see this