Android OpenCV Drawing Hough Lines

Question

I am trying to use OpenCV on an android phone to detect lines. I modified the 'Tutorial 1 Basic - 2. Use OpenCV Camera' sample. I am also using Hough Line Transform as an example. However, I am getting weird numbers (at least what I believe to be weird numbers) for the points. In the range 1000 to -1000 for b.

I don't fully understand the code (mostly the part about adding/subtracting 1000 * (a or -b)).

In the end I do not see the lines at all.

Could anyone give me a hand? Also let me know if you need more information.

capture.retrieve(mGray, Highgui.CV_CAP_ANDROID_GREY_FRAME);
Imgproc.Canny(mGray, mIntermediateMat, 80, 100);
Imgproc.HoughLines(mIntermediateMat, mLines, 1, Math.PI/180, 100);

Scalar color = new Scalar(0, 0, 255);

double[] data;
double rho, theta;
Point pt1 = new Point();
Point pt2 = new Point();
double a, b;
double x0, y0;
for (int i = 0; i < mLines.cols(); i++)
{
    data = mLines.get(0, i);
    rho = data[0];
    theta = data[1];
    a = Math.cos(theta);
    b = Math.sin(theta);
    x0 = a*rho;
    y0 = b*rho;
    pt1.x = Math.round(x0 + 1000*(-b));
    pt1.y = Math.round(y0 + 1000*a);
    pt2.x = Math.round(x0 - 1000*(-b));
    pt2.y = Math.round(y0 - 1000 *a);
    Core.line(mIntermediateMat, pt1, pt2, color, 3);
}

Imgproc.cvtColor(mIntermediateMat, mRgba, Imgproc.COLOR_GRAY2BGRA, 4);

Bitmap bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(mRgba.cols(), mRgba.rows(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);

if (Utils.matToBitmap(mRgba, bmp))
    return bmp;

bmp.recycle();
return null;

Answer 1

I am using HoughLineP to find lines in my frame and draw them back out.

Here is my code... hope this helps.

    Mat mYuv = new Mat();
    Mat mRgba = new Mat();
    Mat thresholdImage = new Mat(getFrameHeight() + getFrameHeight() / 2, getFrameWidth(), CvType.CV_8UC1);
    mYuv.put(0, 0, data);
    Imgproc.cvtColor(mYuv, mRgba, Imgproc.COLOR_YUV420sp2RGB, 4);
    Imgproc.cvtColor(mRgba, thresholdImage, Imgproc.COLOR_RGB2GRAY, 4);
    Imgproc.Canny(thresholdImage, thresholdImage, 80, 100, 3);
    Mat lines = new Mat();
    int threshold = 50;
    int minLineSize = 20;
    int lineGap = 20;

    Imgproc.HoughLinesP(thresholdImage, lines, 1, Math.PI/180, threshold, minLineSize, lineGap);

    for (int x = 0; x < lines.cols(); x++) 
    {
          double[] vec = lines.get(0, x);
          double x1 = vec[0], 
                 y1 = vec[1],
                 x2 = vec[2],
                 y2 = vec[3];
          Point start = new Point(x1, y1);
          Point end = new Point(x2, y2);

          Core.line(mRgba, start, end, new Scalar(255,0,0), 3);

    }

    Bitmap bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(getFrameWidth(), getFrameHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);

    if (Utils.matToBitmap(mRgba, bmp))
         return bmp;

Answer 2

You draw the lines to the mIntermediateMat image, but returning mRgba image. That's why you don't see the lines.

The -1000..1000 range for b is correct. HoughLines returns a line angle and distance from zero (a.k.a. rho and theta). To draw them, you need to convert them to two points. The 1000's are the image dimensions, if you would draw to a 2000x2000 image, increase them to 2000 or otherwise the lines will not cross the entire image.

HoughLines is different algorithm from HoughLinesP. HoughLines only finds lines, that cross the entire image. HoughLinesP returns shorter line segments.