Find local maxima in grayscale image using OpenCV

Question

Does anybody know how to find the local maxima in a grayscale IPL_DEPTH_8U image using OpenCV? HarrisCorner mentions something like that but I\'m actually not i

Answer 1

Actually after I posted the code above I wrote a better and very very faster one .. The code above suffers even for a 640x480 picture.. I optimized it and now it is very very fast even for 1600x1200 pic. Here is the code :

void localMaxima(cv::Mat src,cv::Mat &dst,int squareSize)
{
if (squareSize==0)
{
    dst = src.clone();
    return;
}

Mat m0;
dst = src.clone();
Point maxLoc(0,0);

//1.Be sure to have at least 3x3 for at least looking at 1 pixel close neighbours
//  Also the window must be x
SANITYCHECK(squareSize,3,1);
int sqrCenter = (squareSize-1)/2;

//2.Create the localWindow mask to get things done faster
//  When we find a local maxima we will multiply the subwindow with this MASK
//  So that we will not search for those 0 values again and again
Mat localWindowMask = Mat::zeros(Size(squareSize,squareSize),CV_8U);//boolean
localWindowMask.at(sqrCenter,sqrCenter)=1;

//3.Find the threshold value to threshold the image
    //this function here returns the peak of histogram of picture
    //the picture is a thresholded picture it will have a lot of zero values in it
    //so that the second boolean variable says :
    //  (boolean) ? "return peak even if it is at 0" : "return peak discarding 0"
int thrshld =  maxUsedValInHistogramData(dst,false);
threshold(dst,m0,thrshld,1,THRESH_BINARY);

//4.Now delete all thresholded values from picture
dst = dst.mul(m0);

//put the src in the middle of the big array
for (int row=sqrCenter;row(row,col)==0)
            continue;
        //2.the value at (row,col) is not 0 so it can be a local maxima point
        m0 =  dst.colRange(col-sqrCenter,col+sqrCenter+1).rowRange(row-sqrCenter,row+sqrCenter+1);
        minMaxLoc(m0,NULL,NULL,NULL,&maxLoc);
        //if the maximum location of this subWindow is at center
        //it means we found the local maxima
        //so we should delete the surrounding values which lies in the subWindow area
        //hence we will not try to find if a point is at localMaxima when already found a neighbour was
        if ((maxLoc.x==sqrCenter)&&(maxLoc.y==sqrCenter))
        {
            m0 = m0.mul(localWindowMask);
                            //we can skip the values that we already made 0 by the above function
            col+=sqrCenter;
        }
    }
}