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KexO
KexO

Reputation: 11

cv2.groupRectangles() returning empty tuple - Python

I'm trying to group rectangles together using cv2.groupRectangles() but it returns empty tuple ()

I tried using 2 different versions of opencv-python (4.6.0.66 and 3.4.18.65)

‎This is the code:

# "do" object detection
rectangles = np.array([
    [530, 119,  47,  47],
    [641, 117,  53,  53],
    [531,  89, 117, 117]])
print(rectangles)
print()

(rect, weights) = cv2.groupRectangles(rectangles, groupThreshold=1, eps=0.5)
print("rect after cv.groupRectangles:", rect)

And this is the output:

[[530 119  47  47]
 [641 117  53  53]
 [531  89 117 117]]

rect after cv.groupRectangles: ()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 149

Answers (1)

Christoph Rackwitz
Christoph Rackwitz

Reputation: 15456

Here are your initial rectangles for reference. How were you wanting those to be merged?

rectangles

You might have chosen groupThreshold badly.

If that is more than 0, the function will remove any rectangles that aren't "confirmed" by nearby neighbors. With 0, it's allowed to leave single rectangles alone...

>>> cv.groupRectangles(rectangles, groupThreshold=0, eps=0)
(array([[530, 119,  47,  47],
       [641, 117,  53,  53],
       [531,  89, 117, 117]]), array([1, 1, 1]))

But then it also doesn't seem to want to merge any of them. That eps doesn't seem to behave all that "relatively". I get effects when I increase it beyond 1.0.

Documentation is very poor about this. Perhaps this function is broken. If not broken, then it's at least not documented well enough for me to make sense of it and I think I'm proficient with OpenCV.

Upvotes: 1

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