Contour Detection using OpenCV

Contour Detection using OpenCV

Contour Detection using OpenCV (Python/C++)

“When we join all the points on the boundary of an object, we get a contour. Typically, a specific contour area is related to the boundary pixels, having similar color and intensity. Whenever the intensity or color changes greatly, then almost always we get a new contour area starting from there.

OpenCV makes it really easy for finding, and drawing contours in images. It provides two simple functions to do so: findContours(), and drawContours(). As promised earlier, for hands-on coding experience we will see how to use the above functions of OpenCV. We will also discuss what are the arguments/options these functions accept, in detail.

Not only the OpenCV functions, we will also see two different types of contour detection methods: CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE and CHAIN_APPROX_NONE. We will cover these in detail, in the rest of the post.

For contour detection, we will be using few images to show many use cases, and different scenarios…”

Source: learnopencv.com/contour-detection-using-opencv-python-c/