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Student FourK
Student FourK

Reputation: 1403

Choosing the correct upper and lower HSV boundaries for color detection with`cv::inRange` (OpenCV)

I have an image of a coffee can with an orange lid position of which I want to find. Here is it image.

gcolor2 utility shows HSV at the center of the lid to be (22, 59, 100). The question is how to choose the limits of the color then? I tried min = (18, 40, 90) and max = (27, 255, 255), but have got unexpected result

Here is the Python code:

import cv

in_image = 'kaffee.png'
out_image = 'kaffee_out.png'
out_image_thr = 'kaffee_thr.png'

ORANGE_MIN = cv.Scalar(18, 40, 90)
ORANGE_MAX = cv.Scalar(27, 255, 255)
COLOR_MIN = ORANGE_MIN
COLOR_MAX = ORANGE_MAX

def test1():
    frame = cv.LoadImage(in_image)
    frameHSV = cv.CreateImage(cv.GetSize(frame), 8, 3)
    cv.CvtColor(frame, frameHSV, cv.CV_RGB2HSV)
    frame_threshed = cv.CreateImage(cv.GetSize(frameHSV), 8, 1)
    cv.InRangeS(frameHSV, COLOR_MIN, COLOR_MAX, frame_threshed)
    cv.SaveImage(out_image_thr, frame_threshed)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    test1()

Upvotes: 118

Views: 352504

Answers (10)

Danielle_Z
Danielle_Z

Reputation: 31

I was also struggling to find what HSV values to choose (to ultimately select regions). With quite some googling I made this small script to inspect HSV values in my image.

It opens your image (adjust the path at cv2.imread). When you click at a point of interest in the image, it prints the location of mouse-click and HSV values at that location in the image.

import cv2

def on_mouse(event, x, y, flags, param):
    if event == cv2.EVENT_LBUTTONDOWN:
        hsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
        print("HSV values at ({}, {}): {}".format(x, y, hsv[y, x]))

img = cv2.imread(‘\path\to\your\image\piccie.png’)
cv2.namedWindow("image")
cv2.setMouseCallback("image", on_mouse)

while True:
    cv2.imshow("image", img)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Upvotes: 0

nathancy
nathancy

Reputation: 46600

Here's a simple HSV color thresholder script to determine the lower/upper color ranges using trackbars for any image on the disk. Simply change the image path in cv2.imread(). Example to isolate orange:

enter image description here

import cv2
import numpy as np

def nothing(x):
    pass

# Load image
image = cv2.imread('1.jpg')

# Create a window
cv2.namedWindow('image')

# Create trackbars for color change
# Hue is from 0-179 for Opencv
cv2.createTrackbar('HMin', 'image', 0, 179, nothing)
cv2.createTrackbar('SMin', 'image', 0, 255, nothing)
cv2.createTrackbar('VMin', 'image', 0, 255, nothing)
cv2.createTrackbar('HMax', 'image', 0, 179, nothing)
cv2.createTrackbar('SMax', 'image', 0, 255, nothing)
cv2.createTrackbar('VMax', 'image', 0, 255, nothing)

# Set default value for Max HSV trackbars
cv2.setTrackbarPos('HMax', 'image', 179)
cv2.setTrackbarPos('SMax', 'image', 255)
cv2.setTrackbarPos('VMax', 'image', 255)

# Initialize HSV min/max values
hMin = sMin = vMin = hMax = sMax = vMax = 0
phMin = psMin = pvMin = phMax = psMax = pvMax = 0

while(1):
    # Get current positions of all trackbars
    hMin = cv2.getTrackbarPos('HMin', 'image')
    sMin = cv2.getTrackbarPos('SMin', 'image')
    vMin = cv2.getTrackbarPos('VMin', 'image')
    hMax = cv2.getTrackbarPos('HMax', 'image')
    sMax = cv2.getTrackbarPos('SMax', 'image')
    vMax = cv2.getTrackbarPos('VMax', 'image')

    # Set minimum and maximum HSV values to display
    lower = np.array([hMin, sMin, vMin])
    upper = np.array([hMax, sMax, vMax])

    # Convert to HSV format and color threshold
    hsv = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
    mask = cv2.inRange(hsv, lower, upper)
    result = cv2.bitwise_and(image, image, mask=mask)

    # Print if there is a change in HSV value
    if((phMin != hMin) | (psMin != sMin) | (pvMin != vMin) | (phMax != hMax) | (psMax != sMax) | (pvMax != vMax) ):
        print("(hMin = %d , sMin = %d, vMin = %d), (hMax = %d , sMax = %d, vMax = %d)" % (hMin , sMin , vMin, hMax, sMax , vMax))
        phMin = hMin
        psMin = sMin
        pvMin = vMin
        phMax = hMax
        psMax = sMax
        pvMax = vMax

    # Display result image
    cv2.imshow('image', result)
    if cv2.waitKey(10) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

cv2.destroyAllWindows()

HSV lower/upper color threshold ranges

(hMin = 0 , sMin = 164, vMin = 0), (hMax = 179 , sMax = 255, vMax = 255)

Once you have determined your lower and upper HSV color ranges, you can segment your desired colors like this:

import numpy as np
import cv2

image = cv2.imread('1.png')
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
lower = np.array([0, 164, 0])
upper = np.array([179, 255, 255])
mask = cv2.inRange(hsv, lower, upper)
result = cv2.bitwise_and(image, image, mask=mask)

cv2.imshow('result', result)
cv2.waitKey()

Upvotes: 89

Shreyas Vedpathak
Shreyas Vedpathak

Reputation: 458

Most of the methods mentioned above usually require some knowledge of the colour range for a particular colour followed by trial and error to get the right range. But the official documentation of OpenCV suggests a better way to find HSV lower and upper bounds even for the colours that are not very common.

How to find HSV values to track?

This is a common question found in stackoverflow.com. It is very simple and you can use the same function, cv.cvtColor(). Instead of passing an image, you just pass the BGR values you want. For example, to find the HSV value of Green, try the following commands in a Python terminal:

You can find the exact pixel values (BGR) of the required object and use them for example green (0, 255, 0)

green = np.uint8([[[0,255,0 ]]])
hsv_green = cv.cvtColor(green,cv.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
print(hsv_green)

[[[60 255 255]]]

Now you take [H-10, 100,100] and [H+10, 255, 255] as the lower bound and upper bound respectively. Apart from this method, you can use any image editing tools like GIMP or any online converters to find these values, but don't forget to adjust the HSV ranges.

Source:
OpenCV Colorspaces and Object Tracking
GIMP - Image Manipulating Tool

Upvotes: 1

Hari Anugrah
Hari Anugrah

Reputation: 544

I created a simple (more proper) tool using opencv-python for this purpose. Thought it would be useful for someone stumbled here like I did earlier this year

enter image description here

Since the tool itself is written using python cv2, it would be guaranteed to use the same range. Also there's a slider for erode and dilate since usually computer vision project need these two feature

You can clone the tool from here https://github.com/hariangr/HsvRangeTool

Upvotes: 11

Shamshirsaz.Navid
Shamshirsaz.Navid

Reputation: 2362

You can use GIMP or PaintDotNet to get the exact range of HSV. But the problem is that the HSV range in graphics software is different from the same range in OpenCV, so you need a function to correct this for you. For this purpose, you can use the following function.

def fixHSVRange(h, s, v):
    # Normal H,S,V: (0-360,0-100%,0-100%)
    # OpenCV H,S,V: (0-180,0-255 ,0-255)
    return (180 * h / 360, 255 * s / 100, 255 * v / 100)

enter image description here

For example you can use it something like this:

im=cv2.imread("image.jpg",1)
im_hsv = cv2.cvtColor(im, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
color1 = fixHSVRange(h=10, s=20, v=0)
color2 = fixHSVRange(h=30, s=70, v=100)
mask = cv2.inRange(im_hsv, color1, color2)
cv2.imwrite("mask.jpg",mask)

enter image description here

Upvotes: 2

Abid Rahman K
Abid Rahman K

Reputation: 52646

Problem 1 : Different applications use different scales for HSV. For example gimp uses H = 0-360, S = 0-100 and V = 0-100. But OpenCV uses H: 0-179, S: 0-255, V: 0-255. Here i got a hue value of 22 in gimp. So I took half of it, 11, and defined range for that. ie (5,50,50) - (15,255,255).

Problem 2: And also, OpenCV uses BGR format, not RGB. So change your code which converts RGB to HSV as follows:

cv.CvtColor(frame, frameHSV, cv.CV_BGR2HSV)

Now run it. I got an output as follows:

enter image description here

Hope that is what you wanted. There are some false detections, but they are small, so you can choose biggest contour which is your lid.

EDIT:

As Karl Philip told in his comment, it would be good to add new code. But there is change of only a single line. So, I would like to add the same code implemented in new cv2 module, so users can compare the easiness and flexibility of new cv2 module.

import cv2
import numpy as np

img = cv2.imread('sof.jpg')

ORANGE_MIN = np.array([5, 50, 50],np.uint8)
ORANGE_MAX = np.array([15, 255, 255],np.uint8)

hsv_img = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)

frame_threshed = cv2.inRange(hsv_img, ORANGE_MIN, ORANGE_MAX)
cv2.imwrite('output2.jpg', frame_threshed)

It gives the same result as above. But code is much more simpler.

Upvotes: 178

Masum Billah
Masum Billah

Reputation: 2399

To find the HSV value of Green, try following commands in Python terminal

green = np.uint8([[[0,255,0 ]]])
hsv_green = cv2.cvtColor(green,cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
print hsv_green
[[[ 60 255 255]]]

Upvotes: 6

Kinght 金
Kinght 金

Reputation: 18331

Ok, find color in HSV space is an old but common question. I made a hsv-colormap to fast look up special color. Here it is:

enter image description here

The x-axis represents Hue in [0,180), the y-axis1 represents Saturation in [0,255], the y-axis2 represents S = 255, while keep V = 255.

To find a color, usually just look up for the range of H and S, and set v in range(20, 255).

To find the orange color, we look up for the map, and find the best range: H :[10, 25], S: [100, 255], and V: [20, 255]. So the mask is cv2.inRange(hsv,(10, 100, 20), (25, 255, 255) )

Then we use the found range to look for the orange color, this is the result:

enter image description here

The method is simple but common to use:

#!/usr/bin/python3
# 2018.01.21 20:46:41 CST
import cv2

img = cv2.imread("test.jpg")
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
mask = cv2.inRange(hsv,(10, 100, 20), (25, 255, 255) )
cv2.imshow("orange", mask);cv2.waitKey();cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Similar answers:

  1. How to define a threshold value to detect only green colour objects in an image :Opencv

  2. Choosing correct HSV values for OpenCV thresholding with InRangeS

Upvotes: 104

Sami Dalati
Sami Dalati

Reputation: 161

OpenCV HSV range is: H: 0 to 179 S: 0 to 255 V: 0 to 255

On Gimp (or other photo manipulation sw) Hue range from 0 to 360, since opencv put color info in a single byte, the maximum number value in a single byte is 255 therefore openCV Hue values are equivalent to Hue values from gimp divided by 2.

I found when trying to do object detection based on HSV color space that a range of 5 (opencv range) was sufficient to filter out a specific color. I would advise you to use an HSV color palate to figure out the range that works best for your application.

HSV color palate with color detection in HSV space

Upvotes: 6

Aruldd
Aruldd

Reputation: 509

I Created this simple program to get HSV Codes in realtime

import cv2
import numpy as np


cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

def nothing(x):
    pass
# Creating a window for later use
cv2.namedWindow('result')

# Starting with 100's to prevent error while masking
h,s,v = 100,100,100

# Creating track bar
cv2.createTrackbar('h', 'result',0,179,nothing)
cv2.createTrackbar('s', 'result',0,255,nothing)
cv2.createTrackbar('v', 'result',0,255,nothing)

while(1):

    _, frame = cap.read()

    #converting to HSV
    hsv = cv2.cvtColor(frame,cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)

    # get info from track bar and appy to result
    h = cv2.getTrackbarPos('h','result')
    s = cv2.getTrackbarPos('s','result')
    v = cv2.getTrackbarPos('v','result')

    # Normal masking algorithm
    lower_blue = np.array([h,s,v])
    upper_blue = np.array([180,255,255])

    mask = cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_blue, upper_blue)

    result = cv2.bitwise_and(frame,frame,mask = mask)

    cv2.imshow('result',result)

    k = cv2.waitKey(5) & 0xFF
    if k == 27:
        break

cap.release()

cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Upvotes: 33

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