rectangularityrectangularityRectangularityRectangularityrectangularity (Operator)

Name

rectangularityrectangularityRectangularityRectangularityrectangularity — Shape factor for the rectangularity of a region.

Signature

Description

The operator rectangularityrectangularityRectangularityRectangularityRectangularityrectangularity calculates the rectangularity of the input regions.

To determine the rectangularity, first a rectangle is computed that has the same first and second order moments as the input region. The computation of the rectangularity measure is finally based on the area of the difference between the computed rectangle and the input region normalized with respect to the area of the rectangle.

In the documentation of this chapter (Regions / Features), you can find an image illustrating regions which vary in their rectangularity.

For rectangles rectangularityrectangularityRectangularityRectangularityRectangularityrectangularity returns the value 1. The more the input region deviates from a perfect rectangle, the less the returned value for RectangularityRectangularityRectangularityRectangularityrectangularityrectangularity will be.

In case of an empty region the operator rectangularityrectangularityRectangularityRectangularityRectangularityrectangularity returns the value 0 (if no other behavior was set (see set_systemset_systemSetSystemSetSystemSetSystemset_system)). If more than one region is passed the numerical values of the rectangularity are stored in a tuple, the position of a value in the tuple corresponding to the position of the region in the input tuple.

Attention

For input regions which orientation cannot be computed by using second order moments (as it is the case for square regions, for example), the returned RectangularityRectangularityRectangularityRectangularityrectangularityrectangularity is underestimated by up to 10% depending on the orientation of the input region.

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

Result

The operator rectangularityrectangularityRectangularityRectangularityRectangularityrectangularity 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>)set_system("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>)set_system("empty_region_result",<Result>). If necessary an exception is raised.

Possible Predecessors

thresholdthresholdThresholdThresholdThresholdthreshold, regiongrowingregiongrowingRegiongrowingRegiongrowingRegiongrowingregiongrowing, connectionconnectionConnectionConnectionConnectionconnection

Alternatives

circularitycircularityCircularityCircularityCircularitycircularity, compactnesscompactnessCompactnessCompactnessCompactnesscompactness, convexityconvexityConvexityConvexityConvexityconvexity, eccentricityeccentricityEccentricityEccentricityEccentricityeccentricity

See also

contlengthcontlengthContlengthContlengthContlengthcontlength, area_centerarea_centerAreaCenterAreaCenterAreaCenterarea_center, select_shapeselect_shapeSelectShapeSelectShapeSelectShapeselect_shape

References

P. L. Rosin: “Measuring rectangularity”; Machine Vision and Applications; vol. 11; pp. 191-196; Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Module

Foundation