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ThisisfunprojectbasedonimageprocessingwithMATLAB,herewewillcome
accrosslearinghowtocountthenumberofdistinguishableobjectsinanimage.
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ThefollowingtutorialisperformedwiththehelpofMATLAB.MATLABstandsfor
MATrixLABoratoryandisanumericalcomputingenvironmentandfourth
generationprogramminglanguage,developedbyMathWorks.UsingMATLAB,
wecansolvetechnicalcomputingproblemsfasterthanwithtraditional
programminglanguages,suchasC,C++,andFortran.
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Thetutorialcanbeperformedbyexecutingthecommandsineachstep
sequentiallyinthecommandwindowofMATLAB.

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Step1:ReadtheImage

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Animageischoosensothatithasconsiderablecontrastwithitsbackgroundso
thattheobjectscanbeidentified.Thefunctionimreadreadstheimagefroma
givenlocationandstoresitinthematriximg1.Theimshowfunctiondisplaysthe
image.

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

Step2:ConverttheImagetoGrayscale

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Thisstepremovesanycolorinformationintheimagetomakeiteasiertoidentify
objects.Thergb2grayconvertsthecolorimageintoagrayscaleimageand
storesitintothematriximg2.
img1=rgb2gray(img1)
imshow(img1)

Step3:Thresholdtheimage

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Thisstepthresholdstheimagebyconvertingthegrayscaleimageintoanimage
thatcontainsonlytwocolors.Thefunctionim2bw()assignsblackcolortoallthe
pixelsthathaveluminositythanathresholdlevelandtheothersaswhite.the
functiongraythresh()approximatelycalculatesthethresholdoftheimage.
img2=im2bw(img1,graythresh(img1))
imshow(img2)

Step4:Complementtheimage

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Inthisstepwecomplementtheimagebyusingthe~operator.Bythiswe
convertthewhitepatchesintoblackandviceversa.Weperformthisstepaswe
wantedtheareasofconcern(objects)tobecoloredwhite.
img2=~img2
imshow(img2)

Step5:FindtheBoundariesoftheObjects

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ThisstepfindstheboundariesofeachobjectthatitfindsandstoresitinB.The
textfunctionprintsthenumberofobjectsthatarefoundbybwboundaries.

B=bwboundaries(img2)
imshow(img2)
text(10,10,strcat('\color{green}ObjectsFound:',num2str(length(B))))
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ineedsomehelp
ihaveanimageofascannedtxtandiwanttodokmeanclustering....into3
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goodjob..
myquestion:howaboutvehicle...?howtocountingvehicle?
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NIceworkdone.Likethiscanutellhowtodetectobjectsinanimageandfind
theirlocations.Itwillbeveryuseful.
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Itispossiblethattheobjectsappearoverlappedinimage.Isitstillpossibleto
counttheirnumbers?
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MygirlfriendhadtodosomethinglikethisforaclassusingMatlab.Toobad
shedidn'treadthisfirst!
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Adityabhaithisisslick.........Iamlovingitgreatwork
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thanx!!
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Greatwork,Ithinkeveryoneshouldlearnthebasicslikethis!Youcouldalso
usethewatershedfiltertopickourobjectsnotsoclearlydefined.Itcouldbe
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maybeimplanning2fillthoseupinmynext
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WhenIfirstlookedatthatfirstimage,IthoughtitlookedfamiliarbutIcouldn't
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