| OpenCV 3.4.1 Open Source Computer Vision

Features2D + Homography to find a known object

## Goal

In this tutorial you will learn how to:

- Use the function cv::findHomography to find the transform between matched keypoints.
- Use the function cv::perspectiveTransform to map the points.

## Theory

## Code

This tutorial code's is shown lines below.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include "opencv2/core.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/features2d.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/calib3d.hpp"
#include "opencv2/xfeatures2d.hpp"
using namespace cv;
using namespace cv::xfeatures2d;
void readme();
/* @function main */
int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
if( argc != 3 )
{ readme(); return -1; }
Mat img_object = imread( argv[1], IMREAD_GRAYSCALE );
Mat img_scene = imread( argv[2], IMREAD_GRAYSCALE );
if( !img_object.data || !img_scene.data )
{ std::cout<< " --(!) Error reading images " << std::endl; return -1; }
//-- Step 1: Detect the keypoints and extract descriptors using SURF
int minHessian = 400;
Ptr<SURF> detector = SURF::create( minHessian );
std::vector<KeyPoint> keypoints_object, keypoints_scene;
Mat descriptors_object, descriptors_scene;
detector->detectAndCompute( img_object, Mat(), keypoints_object, descriptors_object );
detector->detectAndCompute( img_scene, Mat(), keypoints_scene, descriptors_scene );
//-- Step 2: Matching descriptor vectors using FLANN matcher
FlannBasedMatcher matcher;
std::vector< DMatch > matches;
matcher.match( descriptors_object, descriptors_scene, matches );
double max_dist = 0; double min_dist = 100;
//-- Quick calculation of max and min distances between keypoints
for( int i = 0; i < descriptors_object.rows; i++ )
{ double dist = matches[i].distance;
if( dist < min_dist ) min_dist = dist;
if( dist > max_dist ) max_dist = dist;
}
printf("-- Max dist : %f \n", max_dist );
printf("-- Min dist : %f \n", min_dist );
//-- Draw only "good" matches (i.e. whose distance is less than 3*min_dist )
std::vector< DMatch > good_matches;
for( int i = 0; i < descriptors_object.rows; i++ )
{ if( matches[i].distance <= 3*min_dist )
{ good_matches.push_back( matches[i]); }
}
Mat img_matches;
drawMatches( img_object, keypoints_object, img_scene, keypoints_scene,
good_matches, img_matches, Scalar::all(-1), Scalar::all(-1),
std::vector<char>(), DrawMatchesFlags::NOT_DRAW_SINGLE_POINTS );
//-- Localize the object
std::vector<Point2f> obj;
std::vector<Point2f> scene;
for( size_t i = 0; i < good_matches.size(); i++ )
{
//-- Get the keypoints from the good matches
obj.push_back( keypoints_object[ good_matches[i].queryIdx ].pt );
scene.push_back( keypoints_scene[ good_matches[i].trainIdx ].pt );
}
Mat H = findHomography( obj, scene, RANSAC );
//-- Get the corners from the image_1 ( the object to be "detected" )
std::vector<Point2f> obj_corners(4);
obj_corners[0] = cvPoint(0,0); obj_corners[1] = cvPoint( img_object.cols, 0 );
obj_corners[2] = cvPoint( img_object.cols, img_object.rows ); obj_corners[3] = cvPoint( 0, img_object.rows );
std::vector<Point2f> scene_corners(4);
perspectiveTransform( obj_corners, scene_corners, H);
//-- Draw lines between the corners (the mapped object in the scene - image_2 )
line( img_matches, scene_corners[0] + Point2f( img_object.cols, 0), scene_corners[1] + Point2f( img_object.cols, 0), Scalar(0, 255, 0), 4 );
line( img_matches, scene_corners[1] + Point2f( img_object.cols, 0), scene_corners[2] + Point2f( img_object.cols, 0), Scalar( 0, 255, 0), 4 );
line( img_matches, scene_corners[2] + Point2f( img_object.cols, 0), scene_corners[3] + Point2f( img_object.cols, 0), Scalar( 0, 255, 0), 4 );
line( img_matches, scene_corners[3] + Point2f( img_object.cols, 0), scene_corners[0] + Point2f( img_object.cols, 0), Scalar( 0, 255, 0), 4 );
//-- Show detected matches
imshow( "Good Matches & Object detection", img_matches );
waitKey(0);
return 0;
}
/* @function readme */
void readme()
{ std::cout << " Usage: ./SURF_descriptor <img1> <img2>" << std::endl; }

## Explanation

## Result

1. And here is the result for the detected object (highlighted in green)