HSV color range detection

Question

I am new to image detection techniques. I am using java openCV to detect colors in an image. I am able to detect yellow and red colors. I got there value from hit and trial method, these are working fine. But I want to detect green , orange and blue color as well from the hand image below.

Here is a part of my code .

public class ObjectPositionDetect {


    static int hueLowerR = 160;              // for red
    static int hueUpperR = 180;


//    static int hueLowerR = 20;                  // for yellow
//    static int hueUpperR = 31;




    public static void main(String[] args) {
        IplImage orgImg = cvLoadImage("3.JPG");
        IplImage thresholdImage = hsvThreshold(orgImg);
        cvSaveImage("test.jpg", thresholdImage);
        Dimension position = getCoordinates(thresholdImage);
        System.out.println("Dimension of original Image : " + thresholdImage.width() + " , " + thresholdImage.height());
        System.out.println("Position of red spot    : x : " + position.width + " , y : " + position.height);
    }

    static Dimension getCoordinates(IplImage thresholdImage) {
        int posX = 0;
        int posY = 0;
        CvMoments moments = new CvMoments();
        cvMoments(thresholdImage, moments, 1);
        // cv Spatial moment : Mji=sumx,y(I(x,y)•xj•yi)
        // where I(x,y) is the intensity of the pixel (x, y).
        double momX10 = cvGetSpatialMoment(moments, 1, 0); // (x,y)
        double momY01 = cvGetSpatialMoment(moments, 0, 1);// (x,y)
        double area = cvGetCentralMoment(moments, 0, 0);
        System.out.println("this is area "+area);
        posX = (int) (momX10 / area);
        posY = (int) (momY01 / area);
        return new Dimension(posX, posY);
    }
    public static CvScalar CV_RGB(double r, double g, double b) {
    return cvScalar(b, g, r, 0);
    //    return cvScalar(r, g, b, 0);
}

    static IplImage hsvThreshold(IplImage orgImg) {
        // 8-bit, 3- color =(RGB)
        IplImage imgHSV = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(orgImg), 8, 3);  // creating a copy of an image
        //cvSaveImage("monochromatic.jpg", imgHSV);
        //System.out.println(cvGetSize(orgImg));
        cvCvtColor(orgImg, imgHSV, CV_BGR2HSV);
        // 8-bit 1- color = monochrome
        IplImage imgThreshold = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(orgImg), 8, 1);

        // cvScalar : ( H , S , V, A)


        cvInRangeS(imgHSV, cvScalar(hueLowerR, 100, 100, 0), cvScalar(hueUpperR, 255, 255, 0), imgThreshold);

       // cvInRangeS(imgHSV, cvScalar(160, 218, 0, 0), cvScalar(180, 220 , 0, 0), imgThreshold);


        cvReleaseImage(imgHSV);
        cvSmooth(imgThreshold, imgThreshold, CV_MEDIAN, 13);
         cvSaveImage("monochromatic.jpg", imgThreshold);
        // save
        return imgThreshold; 
    }
}

Kindly tell me how can I get the HSV ranges for Blue , Green and Orange colors or Just tell me the ranges for these required colors. Thanks

Solution 1

you can find a color wheel easily at internet. See the image below which tells you the Hue range of various colors. The range in color wheel given below is 0 to 360 but in openCV, the range is 0 to 180. So, just divide the values by 2, and you will get the value for openCV.

Solution 2

You can also use OpenCV version of HSV colour wheel , which I created to chose HSV value easily using trackbar while HSV-color segmentation

Code:

Mat HSV;
int H =170;
int S=200;
int V =200;
int R=0;
int G=0;
int B=0;

int MAX_H=179;
int MAX_S=255;
int MAX_V=255;
int mouse_x=0;
int mouse_y=0;
char window_name[20] = "HSV Color Plot";

//Global variable for hsv color wheel plot
int max_hue_range=179;
int max_step=3; //nuber of pixel for each hue color
int wheel_width=max_hue_range*max_step;
int wheel_hight=50;
int wheel_x=50; //x-position of wheel
int wheel_y=5;//y-position of wheel

//Global variable plot for satuarion-value plot
int S_V_Width=MAX_S;
int S_V_Height=MAX_S;
int S_V_x=10;
int S_V_y=wheel_y+wheel_hight+20;

//Global variable for HSV ploat
int HSV_Width=150;
int HSV_Height=150;
int HSV_x=S_V_x+S_V_Width+30;
int HSV_y=S_V_y+50;


void onTrackbar_changed(int, void*);
static void onMouse( int event, int x, int y, int, void* );
void drawPointers(void);

int main()
{

HSV.create(390,640,CV_8UC3); //Mat to store clock image
HSV.setTo(Scalar(200,0,200));

namedWindow(window_name);
createTrackbar( "Hue",window_name, &H, HUEMAX, onTrackbar_changed );
createTrackbar( "Saturation",window_name, &S, SATMAX,onTrackbar_changed );
createTrackbar( "Value",window_name, &V, VALMAX,onTrackbar_changed);
onTrackbar_changed(0,0); //initialoze window

setMouseCallback( window_name, onMouse, 0 );
 while(true)
  {
    int c;
    c = waitKey( 20 );
    if( (char)c == 27 )
      { break; }
   }

    return 0;
}

void onTrackbar_changed(int, void*){

//Plot color wheel.
int hue_range=0;
int step=1;
for(int i=wheel_y;i<wheel_hight+wheel_y;i++){
    hue_range=0;
    for(int j=wheel_x;j<wheel_width+wheel_x;j++){
   if(hue_range>=max_hue_range) hue_range=0;
       if(step++==max_step){
           hue_range++;
           step=1;
       }
        Vec3b pix;
        pix.val[0]=hue_range;
        pix.val[1]=255;
        pix.val[2]=255;


     HSV.at<Vec3b>(i,j)=pix;

    }

}


//Plot for saturation and value
int sat_range=0;
int value_range=255;
for(int i=S_V_y;i<S_V_Height+S_V_y;i++){
    value_range--;
    sat_range=0;
for(int j=S_V_x;j<S_V_Width+S_V_x;j++){
        Vec3b pix;
        pix.val[0]=H;
        pix.val[1]=sat_range++;
        pix.val[2]=value_range;
     HSV.at<Vec3b>(i,j)=pix;

    }

}

//Ploat for HSV
Mat roi1(HSV,Rect(HSV_x,HSV_y,HSV_Width,HSV_Height));
roi1=Scalar(H,S,V);
drawPointers();

Mat RGB;
cvtColor(HSV, RGB,CV_HSV2BGR);

imshow(window_name,RGB);
imwrite("hsv.jpg",RGB);

}

static void onMouse( int event, int x, int y, int f, void* ){
if(f&CV_EVENT_FLAG_LBUTTON){
        mouse_x=x;
        mouse_y=y;
    if(((wheel_x<=x)&&(x<=wheel_x+wheel_width))&&((wheel_y<=y)&&(y<=wheel_y+wheel_hight))){
        H=(x-wheel_x)/ max_step;
        cvSetTrackbarPos("Hue", window_name, H);
        }
    else if(((S_V_x<=x)&&(x<=S_V_x+S_V_Width))&&((S_V_y<=y)&&(y<=S_V_y+S_V_Height))){

        S=x-S_V_x;
        y=y-S_V_y;
        V=255-y;

        cvSetTrackbarPos("Saturation", window_name, S);
        cvSetTrackbarPos("Value", window_name, V);


        }

}

}

void drawPointers(){
   // Point p(S_V_x+S,S_V_y+(255-V));
    Point p(S,255-V);



    int index=10;
    Point p1,p2;
    p1.x=p.x-index;
    p1.y=p.y;
    p2.x=p.x+index;
    p2.y=p.y;

    Mat roi1(HSV,Rect(S_V_x,S_V_y,S_V_Width,S_V_Height));
    line(roi1, p1, p2,Scalar(255,255,255),1,CV_AA,0);
    p1.x=p.x;
    p1.y=p.y-index;
    p2.x=p.x;
    p2.y=p.y+index;
    line(roi1, p1, p2,Scalar(255,255,255),1,CV_AA,0);

    int x_index=wheel_x+H*max_step;
    if(x_index>=wheel_x+wheel_width) x_index=wheel_x+wheel_width-2;
    if(x_index<=wheel_x) x_index=wheel_x+2;

    p1.x=x_index;
    p1.y=wheel_y+1;
    p2.x=x_index;
    p2.y=wheel_y+20;
    line(HSV, p1, p2,Scalar(255,255,255),2,CV_AA,0);

    Mat RGB(1,1,CV_8UC3);
    Mat temp;
    RGB=Scalar(H,S,V);
    cvtColor(RGB, temp,CV_HSV2BGR);
    Vec3b rgb=temp.at<Vec3b>(0,0);
    B=rgb.val[0];
    G=rgb.val[1];
    R=rgb.val[2];

    Mat roi2(HSV,Rect(450,130,175,175));
    roi2=Scalar(200,0,200);

    char name[30];
    sprintf(name,"R=%d",R);
    putText(HSV,name, Point(460,155) , FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, .7, Scalar(5,255,255), 2,8,false );

    sprintf(name,"G=%d",G);
    putText(HSV,name, Point(460,180) , FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, .7, Scalar(5,255,255), 2,8,false );

    sprintf(name,"B=%d",B);
    putText(HSV,name, Point(460,205) , FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, .7, Scalar(5,255,255), 2,8,false );


    sprintf(name,"H=%d",H);
    putText(HSV,name, Point(545,155) , FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, .7, Scalar(5,255,255), 2,8,false );

    sprintf(name,"S=%d",S);
    putText(HSV,name, Point(545,180) , FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, .7, Scalar(5,255,255), 2,8,false );

    sprintf(name,"V=%d",V);
    putText(HSV,name, Point(545,205) , FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, .7, Scalar(5,255,255), 2,8,false );


}

Comments

[farhangdon]

I did a lot of search but was unable to search for a suitable HSV range which can work for me. I have given the sample ranges for red and yellow color in my code which works fine. Can you please tell me HSV ranges for Green , Orange or Blue color ? Thanks in advance.

[skm]

ok, i have already provided you a color wheel above which i have used myself too. You just need to divide the values by 2 and you will get the range as used by opencv.

[farhangdon]

Thanks Bro. It helped. :)

[farhangdon]

I have detected almost every color from the above wheel , But Can You please guide me that How can I detect the skin color of hand(front side of hand) ? What's its HSV ?

[skm]

Sorry, for that either you must hit and trial....or else i think that opencv provides some method for skin color detection.