My application is to detect small foreign objects (please see attached photo) such as cloth fibers that stick between (shiny) transparent film and white synthetic paper surface.
Can you suggest how to use OpenMV Cam for this application?
Is there any recommended microscope lens for use with OpenMV Cam?
Hi, there's no photo attached.
Anyway, you'll want to use the img.find_blobs() method to detect things like this. You'd use the inverse=True argument and search for everything that isn't the color of the paper you're looking at.
As for a microscope lens... the telephoto lens offer 4x zoom. Do you need more than that? Here's an 8x zoom lens.
Just google for M12 lenses and whatever zoom you need.
Very sorry forgot to attach a photo. Kindly refer to the attachment in this post.
Hi, can you run the hello world demo with VGA resolution and tell me what the camera sees? That object is easy to detect... So, you just need a good about of zoom.
I just bought one of those lenses and if it works out and I can find a source I may stock it. 8x zoom is cool. I'll call it the microscope lens.
This is what the camera sees from a distance of less than 10 millimeters and from an angle of about 45 degrees.
1st object is human eyelashes (3.5 millimeter length) & 2nd object is cloth fiber (1 millimeter length).
Hi, sorry for not getting back to you quickly.
For your application you really need adaptive thresholding. We don't have that right now but it's on my giant to do list.
Anyway, in the mean time you can get around the issue with the giant blob on the bottom by filtering out blobs which have a high pixel count.
So, call the find_blobs() method on the image using the color thresholds you figured out. Then, filter out all blobs with more than 500 pixels and less than 100 pixels. This should just tell you about blobs that are effectively dirt.
Also, you may wish to make the lighting flatter. Finally, use histeq() to pump the contrast up the image to make setting the color thresholds easier.
Thanks for your guidance and strong support.
Please advice further, where should define two pixels values, i.e. 500 and 100 in the instruction below?
See the documentation on the blob object for more information.
Is it by calling "image.find_blobs" twice with separate thresholds? The first is for the 500 pixels and the second is for the 100 pixels?
Sorry to bother you with this kind of question.
Please ignore my last question, as it has been answered.
Attached is the result of camera detection of 4 objects.
The camera can detect 1.5 mm dirt (fb1), with and without additional lighting.
But it can not detect 1 mm cloth fiber (fb2) and 3.5 mm human eyelashes (fb3).
Can you suggest another method to detect fb2 and fb3?
How to reduce the influence of environmental lighting on detection?
Sorry, previous post is the detection result of 3 objects, not 4.
If you're serious about this application you need to mount the camera to a jig where it's stable, then add flood lights around it that evenly illuminate the scene.
An evenly illuminated scene should not have the shadow ring you see around the edge of the image. Nor the cameras shadow in the image. You have to fix these things because the camera is effectively just looking for dark spots which shadows will look like.
If you look at professional computer vision systems like a pick and place machine you'll notice they use giant high powered flood lights to remove all shadows. This is want you need to do. Note that the lighting should not cast more shadows, so, it needs to be diffused.
I will try to improve the lighting as you suggest.
Hi, the next version of the firmware will feature adaptive thresholding to deal with the issue you're having. This will pick out the hair and just that very easily without any effort or additional lighting control.
Let me know if you need the feature now and I can make a firmware image available to you.
Thank you very much for the good news and for providing the required features for our application.
Yes, I need the feature now and please make a firmware image available to me.
Hi, I've attached the firmware and an example script. The new method solves your problems for the first set of images you presented to me. As for the second set... no method will clean that much noise up in the image. Adaptive threshold just solves the problem of making light shadows not an issue.
Where the area average is the average of all pixels around that pixel. Basically, if the average minus the offset is less than the value of the pixel then the output is a 1. So, changing the offset value just adjusts how the output is generated.
In general, the algorithm tends to mark areas where there's a sudden change. The offset value allows you to control exactly how much of a sudden change you threshold.
Please kindly continue to teach.
Can you post what else you were asking?
1) What is the effect if the offset value is increased or decreased?
1) Does the object color/grayscale threshold value still have to be defined?
2) Does img.mean() has a returned object, so draw_rectangle() can be used on found object?
2) No more work on that is needed.
After the automatic thresholding is run pixels will only be 0 to max values. So, the thresholds to be used with find_blobs are now constants.
I have tried the attached script and I receive "OSError: Image format is not supported" message when set the frame size to VGA.
Does img.mean() not work in VGA mode?
You can do VGA in grayscale. But, not in RGB565. This is because for RGB565 (for VGA) mode we actually switch to operating in bayer pattern mode and jpeg compress the images to get video output. We have to do this because we don't have the RAM for a full VGA RGB565 image. Anyway, VGA for RGB565 is just for taking jpeg compressed images and nothing else.
Regarding the thresholds constant, what exactly does each value in the threshold variable do?
Im trying to do the same thing but I dont understand what each value is representing?
I saw this example code below, which makes sense. Which finds extremely bright areas. But why use more than 2 values?
# The below grayscale threshold is set to only find extremely bright white areas.
L, A, and B define the LAB color space. L is the lighting, and A/B define the color. The thresholds are then (LMin, LMax, AMin, AMax. BMin, BMax). L goes from 0-100, A/B go from -128 to 127.
Grayscale just has 0-255 which maps roughly to the 0-100 for L.