I want to segment car plate to get separate characters.
I found some article, where such segmentation performed using brightness histograms (as i understand - sum of all non-zero pixels).
How can i calculate such histogram? I would really appreciate for any help!
std::vector<int> computeColumnHistogram(const cv::Mat& in) {
std::vector<int> histogram(in.cols,0); //Create a zeroed histogram of the necessary size
for (int y = 0; y < in.rows; y++) {
p_row = in.ptr(y); ///Get a pointer to the y-th row of the image
for (int x = 0; x < in.cols; x++)
histogram[x] += p_row[x]; ///Update histogram value for this image column
}
//Normalize if you want (you'll get the average value per column):
// for (int x = 0; x < in.cols; x++)
// histogram[x] /= in.rows;
return histogram;
}
Or use reduce as suggested by Berak, either calling
cv::reduce(in, out, 0, CV_REDUCE_AVG);
or
cv::reduce(in, out, 0, CV_REDUCE_SUM, CV_32S);
out
is a cv::Mat
, and it will have a single row.