IplImage**??

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#1

To use “void cvCalcHist(IplImage** image, CvHistogram* hist, int accumulate=0, const CvArr* mask=NULL)” one seems to need an “IplImage** image.”

The following does not work:

  
ofxCvGrayscaleImage cvImageGray1;  
cvImageGray1.allocate(w, h);  
IplImage** iplImageGray1;  
iplImageGray1 = cvImageGray1.getCvImage();//<----- Can't do this  
cvCalcHist(iplImageGray1, refHist, 0, 0);

Unless iplImageGray1 is IplImage** you can’t histogram it, but if it is you can’t assign an ofxCvGrayscale image to it.

Am I misunderstanding something fundamental here?

#2

If anyone has a quick tutorial on reading an image into an openCV Histogram in OF, that would be great. I see some posts saying folks are using it, but don’t see any code.

#3

HI,
check the following example taken from O’Reilly’s Learning OpenCV book examples. If you are intereted in OpenCV this book is a MUST. really well written.

If you use the ofxOpenCV addon you can simply retireve the IplImage pointer from any ofxCVImage type using the getCvImage method.
It should be very strightforward.

Good Luck!

Cheers!

  
//  
// Example 7-1. Histogram computation and display  
//  
//  
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     by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler  
     Published by O'Reilly Media, October 3, 2008  
   
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//  
//  
//  
  
#include <cv.h>  
#include <highgui.h>  
  
int main( int argc, char** argv ) {  
  
    IplImage* src;  
  
    if( argc == 2 && (src=cvLoadImage(argv[1], 1))!= 0) {  
  
        // Compute the HSV image, and decompose it into separate planes.  
        //  
        IplImage* hsv = cvCreateImage( cvGetSize(src), 8, 3 );   
        cvCvtColor( src, hsv, CV_BGR2HSV );  
  
        IplImage* h_plane  = cvCreateImage( cvGetSize(src), 8, 1 );  
        IplImage* s_plane  = cvCreateImage( cvGetSize(src), 8, 1 );  
        IplImage* v_plane  = cvCreateImage( cvGetSize(src), 8, 1 );  
        IplImage* planes[] = { h_plane, s_plane };  
        cvCvtPixToPlane( hsv, h_plane, s_plane, v_plane, 0 );  
  
        // Build the histogram and compute its contents.  
        //  
        int h_bins = 30, s_bins = 32;   
        CvHistogram* hist;  
        {  
          int    hist_size[] = { h_bins, s_bins };  
          float  h_ranges[]  = { 0, 180 };          // hue is [0,180]  
          float  s_ranges[]  = { 0, 255 };   
          float* ranges[]    = { h_ranges, s_ranges };  
          hist = cvCreateHist(   
            2,   
            hist_size,   
            CV_HIST_ARRAY,   
            ranges,   
            1   
          );   
        }  
        cvCalcHist( planes, hist, 0, 0 );  
  
        // Create an image to use to visualize our histogram.  
        //  
        int scale = 10;  
        IplImage* hist_img = cvCreateImage(    
          cvSize( h_bins * scale, s_bins * scale ),   
          8,   
          3  
        );   
        cvZero( hist_img );  
  
        // populate our visualization with little gray squares.  
        //  
        float max_value = 0;  
        cvGetMinMaxHistValue( hist, 0, &max_value, 0, 0 );  
  
        for( int h = 0; h < h_bins; h++ ) {  
            for( int s = 0; s < s_bins; s++ ) {  
                float bin_val = cvQueryHistValue_2D( hist, h, s );  
                int intensity = cvRound( bin_val * 255 / max_value );  
                cvRectangle(   
                  hist_img,   
                  cvPoint( h*scale, s*scale ),  
                  cvPoint( (h+1)*scale - 1, (s+1)*scale - 1),  
                  CV_RGB(intensity,intensity,intensity),   
                  CV_FILLED  
                );  
            }  
        }  
  
        cvNamedWindow( "Source", 1 );  
        cvShowImage(   "Source", src );  
  
        cvNamedWindow( "H-S Histogram", 1 );  
        cvShowImage(   "H-S Histogram", hist_img );  
  
        cvWaitKey(0);  
    }  
}