Contour Detection

Setup

To install, please ensure you have python 3.9.1 or later!

Install dependencies

Note! Some are only used for debugging the algorithm and can be removed if they don't install correctly on your computer! See the requirements.txt for notes.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create the egg

This will make a python egg in the folder called output:

python3 create_egg.py

Add to your program

You can now add the module to your program:

import sys
from os import listdir
from os.path import isfile, join

sys.path.append('../output/contour_detection-1.0-py3.9.egg')

import contour_detection

# set the minimmum amount of image that is not detected to be slide
min_percent = 50

detection_obj = contour_detection.ContourDetection(path, min_percent)

acceptable = detection_obj.contoured_area(False)

# acceptable is set to `True` if it's over the threshold, and `False` if not

Example program

There is an example program called ./scripts/test.py folder that will read the file test1.jpg in the sample_images directory and show the image