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difference blob and contour

clankill3rclankill3r
edited June 2014 in General Discussion

Is there a difference between a blob and a contour? Like is the blob the bounds of a area without the contours? If i google i find stuff about Binary Large Object which is something else.

Answers

  • amnonamnon

    See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blob_detection

    A blob is a region. Countours are the edges around the region.

  • clankill3rclankill3r

    I'm working on a blobscanner. It does find the contours (and there is no way of using it without). Should i name it contourScanner?

    I also have a class BlobManager for example that keeps track of what is new, lost, or found back. It works based on the region. So BlobManager is still a better name for this then ContourManager right? I think ContourManager sounds a bit misleading don't you think?

    I could also name it ContourBlob and ContourBlobManager. Please tell me what you think. (you will thank me later once this library has good names and is out :) ).

    Here is a preview where it runs in realtime:

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