smallest_circlesmallest_circleSmallestCircleSmallestCircle (Operator)

Name

smallest_circlesmallest_circleSmallestCircleSmallestCircle — Smallest surrounding circle of a region.

Signature

Description

The operator smallest_circlesmallest_circleSmallestCircleSmallestCircleSmallestCircle determines the smallest surrounding circle of a region, i.e., the circle with the smallest area of all circles containing the region. For this circle the center (RowRowRowRowrow,ColumnColumnColumnColumncolumn) and the radius (RadiusRadiusRadiusRadiusradius) are calculated. The operator is applied when, for example, the location and size of circular objects (e.g., coins) which, however, are not homogeneous inside or have broken edges due to bad segmentation, has to be determined. The output of the operator is selected in such a way that it can be used as input for the operators disp_circledisp_circleDispCircleDispCircleDispCircle and gen_circlegen_circleGenCircleGenCircleGenCircle.

In the documentation of this chapter (Regions / Features), you can find an image illustrating regions with varying outer and inner radii.

If several regions are passed in RegionsRegionsRegionsRegionsregions corresponding tuples are returned as output parameter. In case of empty region all parameters have the value 0.0 if no other behavior was set (see set_systemset_systemSetSystemSetSystemSetSystem).

Attention

Internally, the calculation is based on the center coordinates of the region pixels. To take into account that pixels are not just infinitely small points but have a certain area, the calculated radius is enlarged by 0.5 before it is returned in RadiusRadiusRadiusRadiusradius. This, in most cases, gives acceptable results. However, in the worst case (pixel diagonal) this enlargement is not sufficient. If one wants to ensure that the border of the input region completely lies within the circle, one had to enlarge the radius by instead of 0.5. Consequently, the value returned in RadiusRadiusRadiusRadiusradius must be corrected by . However, this would also be only an upper bound, i.e., the circle with the corrected radius would be slightly too big in most cases.

Execution Information

• Multithreading type: reentrant (runs in parallel with non-exclusive operators).
• Multithreading scope: global (may be called from any thread).
• Automatically parallelized on tuple level.

Parameters

read_image(Image,'fabrik')
regiongrowing(Image,Regions,5,5,6,100)
select_shape(Regions,SelectedRegions,'area','and',100,2000)
smallest_circle(SelectedRegions,Row,Column,Radius)
gen_circle(Circles,Row,Column,Radius)
dev_display (Circles)

read_image(&Image,"fabrik");
open_window(0,0,-1,-1,0,"visible","",&WindowHandle);
regiongrowing(Image,&Regions,5,5,6.0,100);
select_shape(Regions,&SelectedRegions,"area","and",100.0,2000.0);
T_smallest_circle(SelectedRegions,&Row,&Column,&Radius);
T_gen_circle(&Circles,Row,Column,Radius);
set_draw(WindowHandle,"margin");
disp_region(Circles,WindowHandle);

read_image(Image,'fabrik')
regiongrowing(Image,Regions,5,5,6,100)
select_shape(Regions,SelectedRegions,'area','and',100,2000)
smallest_circle(SelectedRegions,Row,Column,Radius)
gen_circle(Circles,Row,Column,Radius)
dev_display (Circles)

read_image(Image,'fabrik')
regiongrowing(Image,Regions,5,5,6,100)
select_shape(Regions,SelectedRegions,'area','and',100,2000)
smallest_circle(SelectedRegions,Row,Column,Radius)
gen_circle(Circles,Row,Column,Radius)
dev_display (Circles)

read_image(Image,'fabrik')
regiongrowing(Image,Regions,5,5,6,100)
select_shape(Regions,SelectedRegions,'area','and',100,2000)
smallest_circle(SelectedRegions,Row,Column,Radius)
gen_circle(Circles,Row,Column,Radius)
dev_display (Circles)

Complexity

If F is the area of the region, then the mean runtime complexity is O(sqrt(F).

Result

The operator smallest_circlesmallest_circleSmallestCircleSmallestCircleSmallestCircle returns the value 2 (H_MSG_TRUE) if the input is not empty. The behavior in case of empty input (no input regions available) is set via the operator set_system('no_object_result',<Result>)set_system("no_object_result",<Result>)SetSystem("no_object_result",<Result>)SetSystem("no_object_result",<Result>)SetSystem("no_object_result",<Result>). The behavior in case of empty region (the region is the empty set) is set via set_system('empty_region_result',<Result>)set_system("empty_region_result",<Result>)SetSystem("empty_region_result",<Result>)SetSystem("empty_region_result",<Result>)SetSystem("empty_region_result",<Result>). If necessary an exception is raised.

Possible Predecessors

thresholdthresholdThresholdThresholdThreshold, regiongrowingregiongrowingRegiongrowingRegiongrowingRegiongrowing, connectionconnectionConnectionConnectionConnection, runlength_featuresrunlength_featuresRunlengthFeaturesRunlengthFeaturesRunlengthFeatures

Possible Successors

gen_circlegen_circleGenCircleGenCircleGenCircle, disp_circledisp_circleDispCircleDispCircleDispCircle

Alternatives

elliptic_axiselliptic_axisEllipticAxisEllipticAxisEllipticAxis, smallest_rectangle1smallest_rectangle1SmallestRectangle1SmallestRectangle1SmallestRectangle1, smallest_rectangle2smallest_rectangle2SmallestRectangle2SmallestRectangle2SmallestRectangle2

See also

set_shapeset_shapeSetShapeSetShapeSetShape, select_shapeselect_shapeSelectShapeSelectShapeSelectShape, inner_circleinner_circleInnerCircleInnerCircleInnerCircle

Module

Foundation