Removing Borders/Margins from Video Frames
Prithwish Jana
I am working with videos, that have borders (margins) around them. Some have it along all 4 sides, some along left&right only and some along top&bottom only. Length of these margins is also not fixed. I am extracting frames from these videos, as for example,
and
Both of these contain borders on the top and bottom.
Can anyone please suggest some methods to remove these borders from these images (in Python, preferably). I came across some methods, like this on Stackoverflow, but this deals with an ideal situation where borders are perfectly black (0,0,0). But in my case, they may not be pitch black, and also may contain jittery noises too. Any help/suggestions would be highly appreciated.
fmw42
Here is one way to do that in Python/OpenCV.
- Read the image
- Convert to grayscale and invert
- Threshold
- Apply morphology to remove small black or white regions then invert again
- Get the contour of the one region
- Get the bounding box of that contour
- Use numpy slicing to crop that area of the image to form the resulting image
- Save the resulting image
import cv2
import numpy as np
# read image
img = cv2.imread('gymnast.png')
# convert to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# invert gray image
gray = 255 - gray
# gaussian blur
blur = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray, (3,3), 0)
# threshold
thresh = cv2.threshold(blur,236,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)[1]
# apply close and open morphology to fill tiny black and white holes
kernel = np.ones((5,5), np.uint8)
thresh = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel)
thresh = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
# invert thresh
thresh = 255 -thresh
# get contours (presumably just one around the nonzero pixels)
# then crop it to bounding rectangle
contours = cv2.findContours(thresh, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
contours = contours[0] if len(contours) == 2 else contours[1]
cntr = contours[0]
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cntr)
crop = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
cv2.imshow("IMAGE", img)
cv2.imshow("THRESH", thresh)
cv2.imshow("CROP", crop)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# save cropped image
cv2.imwrite('gymnast_crop.png',crop)
cv2.imwrite('gymnast_crop.png',crop)
Input:
Thresholded and cleaned image:
Cropped Result:
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