python opencv - blob detection or circle detection

Question

I am having problems detecting circle areas. I tried it with the HoughCircles function from opencv. However even though the images are pretty similar the parameters for the

Answer 1

We could try Hough Transformation too to detect the circles in the image and play with the thresholds to get the desired result (detected circles in green boundary lines with red dots as centers):

import cv2
import numpy as np

img = cv2.imread('rbv2g.jpg',0)
img = cv2.medianBlur(img,5)
cimg = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR)

circles = cv2.HoughCircles(img,cv2.HOUGH_GRADIENT,1,10,
                            param1=50,param2=12,minRadius=0,maxRadius=20)

circles = np.uint16(np.around(circles))
for i in circles[0,:]:
    # draw the outer circle
    cv2.circle(cimg,(i[0],i[1]),i[2],(0,255,0),2)
    # draw the center of the circle
    cv2.circle(cimg,(i[0],i[1]),2,(0,0,255),3)

cv2.imshow('detected circles',cimg)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()