bwareaopen (Matlab) equivelent in EMGU

Hi,

Well in short NO there is not a built in function that performs the same operation as bwareaopen.

You will simply have to loop through your image and look for a white pixel.

When you find 1 make a blank copy or a list of points that records all pixels attached to the original that are also white. If it is less than 50 pixel then set all these co-ordinates to black else leave it. Use the collection of lists or an overall list/image map to make sure you don't look at pixels you've already checked.

While this process may seem slow it isn't when your talking small areas of white however you may wish to look at some optimisation if a lot of your image is white. Say reduce your image 50% and look for areas less than 10 pixels.

You speed will be comparable to bwareaopen as this is performing the same operation.

Cheers
Chris

[EDIT]
I have found a method of implementing a bwareaopen on the opencv yahoo group many thanks to M.Klien for converting the method.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/OpenCV/message/27345[^]

In EMGU the equivalent code in a method is:

private Image<Bgr, byte > bwareaopen(Image<Bgr, byte > Input_Image, int threshold)
{

    Image<Bgr, byte> bwresults = Input_Image.Copy();

    using (MemStorage storage = new MemStorage())
    {
        for (Contour<Point> contours = Input_Image.Convert<Gray, byte>().FindContours(Emgu.CV.CvEnum.CHAIN_APPROX_METHOD.CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE, Emgu.CV.CvEnum.RETR_TYPE.CV_RETR_LIST, storage); contours != null; contours = contours.HNext)
        {
            Contour<Point> currentContour = contours.ApproxPoly(contours.Perimeter * 0.05, storage);
            if (currentContour.Area < threshold) 
            {
                for (int i = currentContour.BoundingRectangle.X; i < currentContour.BoundingRectangle.X + currentContour.BoundingRectangle.Width; i++)
                {
                    for (int j = currentContour.BoundingRectangle.Y; j < currentContour.BoundingRectangle.Y + currentContour.BoundingRectangle.Height; j++)
                    {
                        bwresults.Data[j, i, 0] = 0;
                        bwresults.Data[j, i, 1] = 0;
                        bwresults.Data[j, i, 2] = 0;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return bwresults;
}

Cheers, Chris