[Image-SIG] An algorithm to find connected groups of pixels
Douglas S. Blank
dblank at brynmawr.edu
Thu Sep 27 19:57:32 CEST 2007
Jeffrey Wise wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in my first week with PIL and doing well - it's a tremendous library!
> I've gotten to the point in my image analysis that I need to find all the
> groups of connected pixels in an image. These groups form arbitrary shapes
> in the image. I want to preserve the shape information for each group, so I
> can compare/analyze/categorize... it later.
>
> The image is composed of pixels of value 0 or 255 in "L" B&W format. I
> assume such an algorithm will need to find a pixel of value 255 and then
> check in every direction about it for a neighbor that is 255 too. The
> algorithm would presumably recurse to find neighbors of the neighbor, etc.
> I suspect the trick in this algorithm is the data structures needed to keep
> track of the discovered adjacencies. I have loaded the image into the 2D
> array-like accessor, so I have free access to each pixel.
>
> I haven't noticed such an algorithm in the PIL yet; maybe I've missed it.
> Or perhaps there is Python code available to do this algorithm? Any ideas?
Jeff,
You can take a look at some code from Pyrobot, Python Robotics, that was
written by a student:
http://cvs.cs.brynmawr.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pyrobot/vision/__init__.py?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Start with the Blob class. We also have similar code in C++, and wrapped
by Python using SWIG:
http://cvs.cs.brynmawr.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pyrobot/vision/cvision/Vision.cpp?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
If you are interested in image processing, robotics, or other
camera-based functions, see our course materials here:
http://pyrorobotics.org/?page=PyroModuleComputerVision
-Doug
> Thanks,
> .Jeff Wise
>
>
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