Blob Colorize

3. Label - specify the name of the color (as will be used in the variable array) such that you can easily identify a color based on a name as apposed to an RGB triplet.

4. Add X - add in colors as needed in order to create a list of colors that will be matched against. For each detected blob in the image the color those most closely matches that blobs color will become that blobs color. This allows an almost white or almost red blob to become pure white or pure red assuming that you have both white and red as "Nearest Colors".

5. Match Threshold - specify how closely a color should match one of the "Nearest Colors" to be replaced with that color.

6. Summary Weight - enabled when Summation is selected. A weighting factor that is multiplied on each pixel prior to the final intensity being capped.

Example

Source	Blob Colorize

The above demonstrates the blob colorizing routine after thresholding the image for high intensity, dilating by 2 and then using the blob colorizing module to recolor the resulting white blobs.

This technique is very handy for laser light detection. The issue with laser lights is that while we see them as red (or green) but the camera sees them as white light surrounded by a red halo due to the color range limitation of CCDs. In order to detect "red" spots we need to first detect likely laser spots, expand the blob and then test for color. The following shows two laser lights from the SRV-1 robot and the final step of the detected two laser lights with the X coordinate of the blobs (this can be used for distance sensing). Download the robofile that accomplishes this.

Source	Laser Detected

Variables

BLOB_COLORIZE_LABELS - contains an array of matched color information for each blob.

The array contains blocks of 6 values per colorized blob. The elements
are as follows:

Offset   Contents
0       x coordinate of the center of gravity of the blob
1       y coordinate of the center of gravity of the blob
2       hex formatted color information or label (when nearest color used)
3       Red color value
4       Blue color value
5       Green color value

For example, to look for red colored blobs you could now use

labels = GetArrayVariable("BLOB_COLORIZE_LABELS")
for i = 0 to ubound(labels)-1 step 6
  if labels(i+3) = "255" and labels(i+4) = "0" and labels(i+5) = "0" then
    write "Found a red blob" & vbCRLF
  end if
next

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