Detecting Circle Using Hough Transform

Question

I'm trying to detect circles with using hough transform.

With my current code I can detect the one below

But I want to find black hole inside the circle I've detected. however changing parameters of houghcircle method is not helped me. Actually it found circles that are not exist.

Also I've tried crop the circle I've found and do another hough transform on this new part it also didn't help me.

here is my code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include "opencv2/core/core.hpp"
#include "opencv2/features2d/features2d.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/calib3d/calib3d.hpp"
#include "opencv2/nonfree/nonfree.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/opencv.hpp"  // needs imgproc, imgcodecs & highgui
using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    Mat src, circleroi;

    /// Read the image
    src = imread( "/Users/Rodrane/Documents/XCODE/test/mkedenemeleri/alev/delikli/gainfull.jpg", 2 );


    /// Convert it to gray
//    cvtColor( src, src_gray, CV_BGR2GRAY );
       /// Reduce the noise so we avoid false circle detection
   GaussianBlur( src, src, Size(3, 3), 2, 2 );
   // adaptiveThreshold(src,src,255,CV_ADAPTIVE_THRESH_MEAN_C,CV_THRESH_BINARY,9,14);
    vector<Vec3f> circles,circlessmall;
 //   Canny( src, src, 50  , 70, 3 );
       /// Apply the Hough Transform to find the circles
    HoughCircles( src, circles, CV_HOUGH_GRADIENT, 1, src.rows/8, 200, 100, 0, 0 );

    /// Draw the circles detected
    for( size_t i = 0; i < circles.size(); i++ )
    {
        Point center(cvRound(circles[i][0]), cvRound(circles[i][4]));
        int radius = cvRound(circles[i][5]);
        // circle center
     circle( src, center, 3, Scalar(0,255,0), -1, 8, 0 );
       //  circle outline
      circle( src, center, radius, Scalar(0,255,0), 3, 8, 0 );

         circleroi = src(Rect(center.x - radius, // ROI x-offset, left coordinate
                                        center.y - radius, // ROI y-offset, top coordinate
                                        2*radius,          // ROI width
                                        2*radius));



  //      imshow( "Hough Circle Transform Demo", circleroi );


}

  resize(src, src, Size(src.cols/2, src.rows/2));
//   threshold( circleroi, circleroi, 50, 255,CV_THRESH_BINARY );

  //  cout<<circleroi<<endl;
    imshow("asd",src);

   //    imwrite("/Users/Rodrane/Documents/XCODE/test/mkedenemeleri/alev/cikti/deliksiz.jpg",circleroi);


    waitKey(0);
    return 0;
}

Update: since hough uses canny inside I'm manually used canny to see wether it finds the circle or not.

here canny results with Canny(src,src, 100, 200,3);

thank you

Answer 1

You're setting one of the HoughCircles parameters minDist = src.rows/8, which is fairly large. The docs explain:

minDist – Minimum distance between the centers of the detected circles. If the parameter is too small, multiple neighbor circles may be falsely detected in addition to a true one. If it is too large, some circles may be missed.

The method can't return both the circle that it does find and the circle that you want, since they have nearly the same center (to within src.rows/8), just different sizes. If you set maxRadius to a value around 30 in order to exclude the larger circle, do you get the desired smaller circle?