find a rectangle in an image in matlab

To find a rectangle in an image using MATLAB, we can follow the following steps:

  1. Read the image using the imread function.
  2. Convert the image to grayscale using the rgb2gray function.
  3. Apply a threshold to the grayscale image using the imbinarize function to get a binary image.
  4. Use the regionprops function to find connected regions in the binary image.
  5. Loop through the connected regions to find the rectangles using the BoundingBox property of each region.

Here's sample code that implements these steps:

main.m
% Read the image
img = imread('image.jpg');

% Convert the image to grayscale
img_gray = rgb2gray(img);

% Apply threshold to get a binary image
img_bw = imbinarize(img_gray);

% Find connected regions in the binary image
regions = regionprops(img_bw, 'BoundingBox');

% Loop through the regions to find the rectangles
for i = 1:length(regions)
    % Get the bounding box of the region
    bb = regions(i).BoundingBox;
    
    % Check if the bounding box has aspect ratio close to 1 (i.e. a square or rectangle)
    if abs(bb(3)/bb(4) - 1) < 0.1 
        % Draw a rectangle around the region
        rectangle('Position', bb, 'EdgeColor', 'r', 'LineWidth', 2);
    end
end
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This code will draw red rectangles around each connected region in the image that has an aspect ratio close to 1, i.e. a square or a rectangular shape.

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