| OpenCV 3.4.1 Open Source Computer Vision

Enumerations | Functions
Object Detection
Image processing

## Enumerations
enum | cv::TemplateMatchModes { cv::TM_SQDIFF = 0, cv::TM_SQDIFF_NORMED = 1, cv::TM_CCORR = 2, cv::TM_CCORR_NORMED = 3, cv::TM_CCOEFF = 4, cv::TM_CCOEFF_NORMED = 5 }
| type of the template matching operation More...

## Functions
void | cv::matchTemplate (InputArray image, InputArray templ, OutputArray result, int method, InputArray mask=noArray())
| Compares a template against overlapped image regions. More...

## Detailed Description

## Enumeration Type Documentation

## § TemplateMatchModes

enum cv::TemplateMatchModes

type of the template matching operation

Enumerator
TM_SQDIFF Python: cv.TM_SQDIFF | \[R(x,y)= \sum _{x',y'} (T(x',y')-I(x+x',y+y'))^2\]
TM_SQDIFF_NORMED Python: cv.TM_SQDIFF_NORMED | \[R(x,y)= \frac{\sum_{x',y'} (T(x',y')-I(x+x',y+y'))^2}{\sqrt{\sum_{x',y'}T(x',y')^2 \cdot \sum_{x',y'} I(x+x',y+y')^2}}\]
TM_CCORR Python: cv.TM_CCORR | \[R(x,y)= \sum _{x',y'} (T(x',y') \cdot I(x+x',y+y'))\]
TM_CCORR_NORMED Python: cv.TM_CCORR_NORMED | \[R(x,y)= \frac{\sum_{x',y'} (T(x',y') \cdot I(x+x',y+y'))}{\sqrt{\sum_{x',y'}T(x',y')^2 \cdot \sum_{x',y'} I(x+x',y+y')^2}}\]
TM_CCOEFF Python: cv.TM_CCOEFF | \[R(x,y)= \sum _{x',y'} (T'(x',y') \cdot I'(x+x',y+y'))\] where \[\begin{array}{l} T'(x',y')=T(x',y') - 1/(w \cdot h) \cdot \sum _{x'',y''} T(x'',y'') \\ I'(x+x',y+y')=I(x+x',y+y') - 1/(w \cdot h) \cdot \sum _{x'',y''} I(x+x'',y+y'') \end{array}\]
TM_CCOEFF_NORMED Python: cv.TM_CCOEFF_NORMED | \[R(x,y)= \frac{ \sum_{x',y'} (T'(x',y') \cdot I'(x+x',y+y')) }{ \sqrt{\sum_{x',y'}T'(x',y')^2 \cdot \sum_{x',y'} I'(x+x',y+y')^2} }\]

## Function Documentation

## § matchTemplate()

void cv::matchTemplate | ( | InputArray | image,
|  | InputArray | templ,
|  | OutputArray | result,
|  | int | method,
|  | InputArray | mask = `noArray()`
| ) |  |

Python:
| result | = | cv.matchTemplate( | image, templ, method[, result[, mask]] | )

Compares a template against overlapped image regions.

The function slides through image , compares the overlapped patches of size \(w \times h\) against templ using the specified method and stores the comparison results in result . Here are the formulae for the available comparison methods ( \(I\) denotes image, \(T\) template, \(R\) result ). The summation is done over template and/or the image patch: \(x' = 0...w-1, y' = 0...h-1\)

After the function finishes the comparison, the best matches can be found as global minimums (when TM_SQDIFF was used) or maximums (when TM_CCORR or TM_CCOEFF was used) using the minMaxLoc function. In case of a color image, template summation in the numerator and each sum in the denominator is done over all of the channels and separate mean values are used for each channel. That is, the function can take a color template and a color image. The result will still be a single-channel image, which is easier to analyze.

Parameters

  image | Image where the search is running. It must be 8-bit or 32-bit floating-point.
  templ | Searched template. It must be not greater than the source image and have the same data type.
  result | Map of comparison results. It must be single-channel 32-bit floating-point. If image is \(W \times H\) and templ is \(w \times h\) , then result is \((W-w+1) \times (H-h+1)\) .
  method | Parameter specifying the comparison method, see TemplateMatchModes
  mask | Mask of searched template. It must have the same datatype and size with templ. It is not set by default. Currently, only the TM_SQDIFF and TM_CCORR_NORMED methods are supported.

Examples:
  MatchTemplate_Demo.cpp.