FIll contour of a binary matrix

Hi everyone.

I have a binary matrix M (512x512) of 0 and 1, which represents the outline of an object, obtained from an image.

I would like to fill the whole object with ones, however I can't do it, because there are some points (pixels) that belong to the outline which are zeroes; so the outline is not complete ..

(If the outline was complete, I would have used this code to fill the object:

M

X = M>0;

M(X | cumsum(X)==1) = 1;

)

I leave you an image of the 512x512 binary matrix M.

Could anyone tell me how to complete the outline and then fill the object with ones?

Answer 1

[DGM]

You could do this by finding neighboring points and drawing lines between each pair like this example:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/271753-how-can-i-connect-the-white-dots-in-a-binary-image-like-this

Or you can try a quick and dirty approach like this if it is sufficient.

S = load('M.mat');
M = S.M;

st = mat2gray(fspecial('disk',3));
M = imdilate(M,st);
M = bwmorph(M,'thin',inf);
M = imfill(M,'holes');

Mcomp = M*0.3 + S.M*0.7; % show both original and result
Mcomp = imcrop(Mcomp,[178 113 116 107]); % easier to see
imshow(Mcomp)

This method is easy, but does not necessarily include all of the original dots on the resultant edge. The selection of the filter size depends on the dot spacing.

[Francesca Pittoni]

Thank you so much!!

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

How did you get that image? If you have the original (x,y) points of the dots used to create the image then you can just use poly2mask

mask = poly2mask(x, y, rows, columns);