Operator Reference
rectangularity (Operator)
rectangularity
— Shape factor for the rectangularity of a region.
Signature
rectangularity(Regions : : : Rectangularity)
Description
The operator rectangularity
calculates the rectangularity of the
input regions.
To determine the rectangularity, first a rectangle is computed that has the same first and second order moments as the input region. The computation of the rectangularity measure is finally based on the area of the difference between the computed rectangle and the input region normalized with respect to the area of the rectangle.
In the documentation of this chapter (Regions / Features), you can find an image illustrating regions which vary in their rectangularity.
For rectangles rectangularity
returns the value 1. The more the
input region deviates from a perfect rectangle, the less the returned
value for Rectangularity
will be.
In case of an empty region the operator rectangularity
returns
the value 0 (if no other behavior was set (see set_system
)).
If more than one region is passed the numerical values of the
rectangularity are stored in a tuple, the position of a value in the tuple
corresponding to the position of the region in the input tuple.
Attention
For input regions which orientation cannot be computed by using second
order moments (as it is the case for square regions, for example),
the returned Rectangularity
is underestimated by up to 10%
depending on the orientation of the input region.
Execution Information
- Multithreading type: reentrant (runs in parallel with non-exclusive operators).
- Multithreading scope: global (may be called from any thread).
- Automatically parallelized on tuple level.
Parameters
Regions
(input_object) region(-array) →
object
Region(s) to be examined.
Rectangularity
(output_control) real(-array) →
(real)
Rectangularity of the input region(s).
Assertion:
0 <= Rectangularity && Rectangularity <= 1.0
Result
The operator rectangularity
returns the value 2 (
H_MSG_TRUE)
if the input is not empty.
The behavior in case of empty input (no input regions available) is
set via the operator set_system('no_object_result',<Result>)
.
The behavior in case of empty region (the region is the empty set) is set via
set_system('empty_region_result',<Result>)
.
If necessary an exception is raised.
Possible Predecessors
threshold
,
regiongrowing
,
connection
Alternatives
circularity
,
compactness
,
convexity
,
eccentricity
See also
contlength
,
area_center
,
select_shape
References
P. L. Rosin: “Measuring rectangularity”; Machine Vision and Applications; vol. 11; pp. 191-196; Springer-Verlag, 1999.
Module
Foundation