// The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt /* This is an example illustrating the use of the Hough transform tool in the dlib C++ Library. In this example we are going to draw a line on an image and then use the Hough transform to detect the location of the line. Moreover, we do this in a loop that changes the line's position slightly each iteration, which gives a pretty animation of the Hough transform in action. */ #include <dlib/gui_widgets.h> #include <dlib/image_transforms.h> using namespace dlib; int main() { // First let's make a 400x400 image. This will form the input to the Hough transform. array2d<unsigned char> img(400,400); // Now we make a hough_transform object. The 300 here means that the Hough transform // will operate on a 300x300 subwindow of its input image. hough_transform ht(300); image_window win, win2; double angle1 = 0; double angle2 = 0; while(true) { // Generate a line segment that is rotating around inside the image. The line is // generated based on the values in angle1 and angle2. So each iteration creates a // slightly different line. angle1 += pi/130; angle2 += pi/400; const point cent = center(get_rect(img)); // A point 90 pixels away from the center of the image but rotated by angle1. const point arc = rotate_point(cent, cent + point(90,0), angle1); // Now make a line that goes though arc but rotate it by angle2. const point l = rotate_point(arc, arc + point(500,0), angle2); const point r = rotate_point(arc, arc - point(500,0), angle2); // Next, blank out the input image and then draw our line on it. assign_all_pixels(img, 0); draw_line(img, l, r, 255); const point offset(50,50); array2d<int> himg; // pick the window inside img on which we will run the Hough transform. const rectangle box = translate_rect(get_rect(ht),offset); // Now let's compute the hough transform for a subwindow in the image. In // particular, we run it on the 300x300 subwindow with an upper left corner at the // pixel point(50,50). The output is stored in himg. ht(img, box, himg); // Now that we have the transformed image, the Hough image pixel with the largest // value should indicate where the line is. So we find the coordinates of the // largest pixel: point p = max_point(mat(himg)); // And then ask the ht object for the line segment in the original image that // corresponds to this point in Hough transform space. std::pair<point,point> line = ht.get_line(p); // Finally, let's display all these things on the screen. We copy the original // input image into a color image and then draw the detected line on top in red. array2d<rgb_pixel> temp; assign_image(temp, img); // Note that we must offset the output line to account for our offset subwindow. // We do this by just adding in the offset to the line endpoints. draw_line(temp, line.first+offset, line.second+offset, rgb_pixel(255,0,0)); win.clear_overlay(); win.set_image(temp); // Also show the subwindow we ran the Hough transform on as a green box. You will // see that the detected line is exactly contained within this box and also // overlaps the original line. win.add_overlay(box, rgb_pixel(0,255,0)); // We can also display the Hough transform itself using the jet color scheme. win2.set_image(jet(himg)); } }