Locate coordinates of black areas in image.

I have been using the function below to try and find circles but for very warped images i am unable to find circles, is there an alternative to infindcircles() which would return the coordiantes of the black sections of the image?

[centers, radii, metric] = imfindcircles(img,[20 50],'ObjectPolarity','dark');

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

Try this.

im = im2double(imread('image.jpeg'));

% filter the black circles from colored image
im_gray = rgb2gray(im);
mask = im_gray < 0.1;

% detect and filter the connected regions
reg = bwconncomp(mask);
pxlList = reg.PixelIdxList;
idx = cellfun(@(x) numel(x) > 1, pxlList);
pxlList(~idx) = [];

% calculate the centres of the connected regions
centres = zeros(numel(pxlList), 2);
for i=1:numel(pxlList)
    [r,c] = ind2sub(size(im_gray), pxlList{i});
    centres(i,:) = mean([r c]);
end

imshow(im);
hold on;
plot(centres(:,2), centres(:,1), 'r+', 'LineWidth', 4, 'MarkerSize', 10)

[jg]

Thank you!

[Ameer Hamza]

Glad to be of help.