hello everyone. im a newbie at working with c++ and i have just got my assignment and it is to create a piece of software to analyse images of coins. can someone help me?
i just need help starting it off then i can get the rest done. never done c++ and this is my first attempt at using it
Its hard to believe that any teacher would give that assignment in a Programming 101 type into class.
You would probably have to write some sort of pattern recognition program, which is highly specialized and advanced type of programming. Not something that a newbe, or many oldtimers, could tackle.
Sounds like you had bettern drop that course like a hot potato.
Has your teacher give you the image processing algothirm for coins ? else you are trying to do it from scratch ?
Before I say anything else: I fully agree with Ancient Dragon. This is NOT an assignment for a beginner in C++.
But if you decide to go ahead and give it a try: I would suggest using OpenCV for image-processing
What country are you from? Do your coins have different sizes? If yes:
OpenCV has a function FitEllipse which you can use on images. These images have to be converted to B/W-contour images first, but this can also be achieved with OpenCV.
The FitEllipse tries to fit Ellipses (duh..) in a closed contour.
If you use the FitEllipse() function, you can easily check what diameter the circle is and then with a small formula convert this to inches/CM and you know what coin you have.
If you are interrested in OpenCV and it's functions, I can explain in more detail how you could tackle this problem and how to use the OpenCV functions.
I also have a color-detection-code that a wrote a while ago, if you're interrested in OpenCV, I might post it here .
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