Segmenting leaf by openCV2--02 : Segment leafs to single leaf part 1

  Last post I  use watershed to segment the leafs, this post I would like to segment those leafs into single leaf.Let us begin from simple case(graph_00).graph_00 is easier to segment than graph_01 and graph_02 because the leafs are not stick together as close as graph_01 and graph_02. If they stick(merge) together like graph_01 and graph_02 do, we will need to pay much more efforts to separate those leafs.

graph_00

graph_01

graph_02

  Separate the leafs of graph_00 could be done by simple algorithms as following.

 

/**
 * @brief cut the leafs to single leaf
 * @param input  input image
 * @param name   name of the image want to be saved
 */
void cut_to_single_leaf_simple(cv::Mat const &input, 
                               std::string const &name)
{
    cv::Mat mask;
    //step 1 : convert the input to gray image
    cv::cvtColor(input, mask, CV_BGR2GRAY);
    //step 2 : binarize it
    cv::threshold(mask, mask, 128, 255, CV_THRESH_BINARY);
    //step 3 : do serious erosion
    cv::erode(mask, mask, 
             cv::getStructuringElement(cv::MORPH_RECT, 
             cv::Size(5, 5)), 
             cv::Point(-1, -1), 5);
    //step 4 : find and remove the outliers contours
    ContoursType contours;
    cv::findContours(mask, contours, CV_RETR_EXTERNAL, 
                     CV_CHAIN_APPROX_NONE);
    OCV::remove_contours(contours, 500, 120000);
    cv::Mat result;
    //step 5 : draw the contours one by one
    for(size_t i = 0; i != contours.size(); ++i){
        mask.setTo(0);
        cv::drawContours(mask, contours, i, cv::Scalar(255), 
                         CV_FILLED);
        //step 6 : dilate and close the contours
        cv::dilate(mask, mask, 
                   cv::getStructuringElement(cv::MORPH_RECT, 
                   cv::Size(5, 5)), 
                   cv::Point(-1, -1), 6);
        cv::morphologyEx(mask, mask, CV_MOP_CLOSE, 
                         cv::getStructuringElement(cv::MORPH_RECT, 
                         cv::Size(15, 15)));
        //step 6 : save the results
        input.copyTo(result, mask);
        cv::imwrite(name + std::to_string(i) + ".png", result);
        result.setTo(0);
    }
}

I think the codes and the comment already show us the whole story.

As usual, the codes can download from github.

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  Try my best to segment the graph_01 and graph_02, I think I would use machine learning to solve this problem.