Boundary an Object in Image using MATLAB

Step 1: Read the Image

An image is choosen so that it has considerable contrast with its background so that the objects can be identified. The function imread reads the image from a given location and stores it in the matrix img1. The imshow function displays the image.


img1=imread('Lines.jpg');
imshow(img1)

Step 2: Convert the Image to Grayscale

This step removes any color information in the image to make it easier to identify objects. The rgb2gray converts the color image into a grayscale image and stores it into the matrix img2.

img1=rgb2gray(img1);
imshow(img1)

Step 3: Threshold the Image

This step thresholds the image by converting the grayscale image into an image that contains only two colors. The function im2bw() assigns black color to all the pixels that have luminosity than a threshold level and the others as white. the function graythresh() approximately calculates the threshold of the image.

img2=im2bw(img1,graythresh(img1));
imshow(img2)

Step 4: Complement the Image

In this step we complement the image by using the ~ operator. By this we convert the white patches into black and vice versa. We perform this step as we wanted the areas of concern(objects) to be colored white.

img2=~img2;
imshow(img2)

Step 5: Find the Boundaries of the Objects

This step finds the boundaries of each object that it finds and stores it in B. The text function prints the number of objects that are found by bwboundaries.


B = bwboundaries(img2);
imshow(img2)
text(10,10,strcat('\color{green}Objects Found:',num2str(length(B))))
hold on

Step 6: Draw the Boundaries

MATLAB CODE:

This is a fun step in which we mark the boundaries of all the objects identified by bwboundaries function. This step can be eliminated if it seems complicated

for k = 1:length(B)
boundary = B{k};
plot(boundary(:,2), boundary(:,1), 'g', 'LineWidth', 0.2)
end



img1=imread('Lines.jpg');
imshow(img1)

img1=rgb2gray(img1);
imshow(img1)

img2=im2bw(img1,graythresh(img1));
imshow(img2)

img2=~img2;
imshow(img2)

B = bwboundaries(img2);
imshow(img2)
text(10,10,strcat('\color{green}Objects Found:',num2str(length(B))))
hold on

for k = 1:length(B)
boundary = B{k};
plot(boundary(:,2), boundary(:,1), 'g', 'LineWidth', 0.2)
end