pblindedgeclosing

Performs edge closing using edge tracking.

Synopsis

pblindedgeclosing angle length [-m mask] [im_in|-] [im_out|-]

Description

pblindedgeclosing tries to close open contours of the input image im_in by tracking contours.

From the end points, the tracking is done using to the directions specified by the parameter angle. If the tracking is longer than length, the tracking is stopped.

Warning: This operator need end points with only 1 neigbor. Thius, it might be necessary to use the operator ppostthinning to ensure 1 pixel thickness.

Parameters

angle specifies the angle of the tracking. Is is an integer from [0..2]:
- If angle=0 then the tracking is done only in the same direction as the end point (0 degree of freedom).
- angle=1 corresponds to 0, 45 and -45 degrees.
- angle=2 corresponds to 0, 45, 90, -45, -90 degrees.
length specifies the maximum distance to the tracking.

Inputs

im_in: a 2D grayscale unsigned char image (Img2duc) which contains the contours.
im_grad: a 2D grayscale image which contains the gradient magnitude values.

Outputs

im_out: a 2D grayscale image.

Result

Returns the number of contours or FAILURE.

Examples

Closed contours yielded by a simple edge detection of tangram.pan:

   psobel tangram.pan b.pan
   pbinarization 27 1e30 b.pan c.pan
   pskeletonization 8 c.pan d.pan 
   ppostthinning d.pan e.pan
   pblindedgeclosing 1 10 e.pan out.pan
   pstatus

C++ prototype

Errc PBlindEdgeClosing( const Img2duc &im_in, Img2duc &im_out, int angle, int length );

Version française

Fermeture de contours par poursuite de contours.

Author: Régis Clouard