Choosing the correct upper and lower HSV boundaries for color detection with`cv::inRange` (OpenCV)

Question

I have an image of a coffee can with an orange lid position of which I want to find. Here is it .

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Answer 1

Ok, find color in HSV space is an old but common question. I made a hsv-colormap to fast look up special color. Here it is:

The x-axis represents Hue in [0,180), the y-axis1 represents Saturation in [0,255], the y-axis2 represents S = 255, while keep V = 255.

To find a color, usually just look up for the range of H and S, and set v in range(20, 255).

To find the orange color, we look up for the map, and find the best range: H :[10, 25], S: [100, 255], and V: [20, 255]. So the mask is cv2.inRange(hsv,(10, 100, 20), (25, 255, 255) )

Then we use the found range to look for the orange color, this is the result:

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The method is simple but common to use:

#!/usr/bin/python3
# 2018.01.21 20:46:41 CST
import cv2

img = cv2.imread("test.jpg")
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
mask = cv2.inRange(hsv,(10, 100, 20), (25, 255, 255) )
cv2.imshow("orange", mask);cv2.waitKey();cv2.destroyAllWindows()

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