Template matching from a screenshot of a window

Question

What I\'ve done

I have a small template image which is meant to be used to find coordinates of matching subimages within a larger screenshot image. The screenshot

Answer 1

To expand on Balaji's very useful answer, make sure that all the Mats being passed to the function are of the same type with the .type() function. You can change src.create(height,width,CV_8UC4); to the same type as template (or vice versa) and the error should be gone. Here's another version of the solution.

Answer 2

I have included my code for finding a Template image from your Desktop image. Hope this solves your problem!

#include <fstream>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <strstream>
#include <functional>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;
using namespace cv;

Mat hwnd2mat(HWND hwnd){

    HDC hwindowDC,hwindowCompatibleDC;

    int height,width,srcheight,srcwidth;
    HBITMAP hbwindow;
    Mat src;
    BITMAPINFOHEADER  bi;

    hwindowDC=GetDC(hwnd);
    hwindowCompatibleDC=CreateCompatibleDC(hwindowDC);
    SetStretchBltMode(hwindowCompatibleDC,COLORONCOLOR);  

    RECT windowsize;    // get the height and width of the screen
    GetClientRect(hwnd, &windowsize);

    srcheight = windowsize.bottom;
    srcwidth = windowsize.right;
    height = windowsize.bottom;  //change this to whatever size you want to resize to
    width = windowsize.right;

    src.create(height,width,CV_8UC4);

    // create a bitmap
    hbwindow = CreateCompatibleBitmap( hwindowDC, width, height);
    bi.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);    //http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/window/dd183402%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
    bi.biWidth = width;    
    bi.biHeight = -height;  //this is the line that makes it draw upside down or not
    bi.biPlanes = 1;    
    bi.biBitCount = 32;    
    bi.biCompression = BI_RGB;    
    bi.biSizeImage = 0;  
    bi.biXPelsPerMeter = 0;    
    bi.biYPelsPerMeter = 0;    
    bi.biClrUsed = 0;    
    bi.biClrImportant = 0;

    // use the previously created device context with the bitmap
    SelectObject(hwindowCompatibleDC, hbwindow);
    // copy from the window device context to the bitmap device context
    StretchBlt( hwindowCompatibleDC, 0,0, width, height, hwindowDC, 0, 0,srcwidth,srcheight, SRCCOPY); //change SRCCOPY to NOTSRCCOPY for wacky colors !
    GetDIBits(hwindowCompatibleDC,hbwindow,0,height,src.data,(BITMAPINFO *)&bi,DIB_RGB_COLORS);  //copy from hwindowCompatibleDC to hbwindow

    // avoid memory leak
    DeleteObject (hbwindow); DeleteDC(hwindowCompatibleDC); ReleaseDC(hwnd, hwindowDC);

    return src;
}

bool NMultipleTemplateMatching(Mat mInput,Mat mTemplate,float Threshold,float Closeness,vector<Point2f> &List_Matches)
{
    Mat mResult;
    Size szTemplate= mTemplate.size();
    Size szTemplateCloseRadius((szTemplate.width/2)* Closeness,(szTemplate.height/2)* Closeness);

    matchTemplate(mInput, mTemplate, mResult, TM_CCOEFF_NORMED);
    threshold(mResult, mResult, Threshold, 1.0, THRESH_TOZERO);
    while (true) 
    {
        double minval, maxval ;
        Point minloc, maxloc;
        minMaxLoc(mResult, &minval, &maxval, &minloc, &maxloc);

        if (maxval >= Threshold)
        {
            List_Matches.push_back(maxloc);
            rectangle(mResult,Point2f(maxloc.x-szTemplateCloseRadius.width,maxloc.y-szTemplateCloseRadius.height),Point2f(maxloc.x+szTemplateCloseRadius.width,maxloc.y+szTemplateCloseRadius.height),Scalar(0),-1);
        }
        else
            break;
    }
    //imshow("reference", mDebug_Bgr);
    return true;
}


int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    Mat mTemplate_Bgr,mTemplate_Gray;
    mTemplate_Bgr= imread("Template.png",1);
    imshow("mTemplate_Bgr",mTemplate_Bgr);

    HWND hDesktopWnd;
    hDesktopWnd=GetDesktopWindow();
    Mat mScreenShot= hwnd2mat(hDesktopWnd);
    Mat mSource_Gray,mResult_Bgr= mScreenShot.clone();


    float Threshold= 0.9;
    float Closeness= 0.9;
    vector<Point2f> List_Matches;

    cvtColor(mScreenShot,mSource_Gray,COLOR_BGR2GRAY);
    cvtColor(mTemplate_Bgr,mTemplate_Gray,COLOR_BGR2GRAY);

    namedWindow("Screen Shot",WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
    imshow("Screen Shot",mSource_Gray);

    NMultipleTemplateMatching(mSource_Gray,mTemplate_Gray,Threshold,Closeness,List_Matches);

    for (int i = 0; i < List_Matches.size(); i++)
    {
        rectangle(mResult_Bgr,List_Matches[i],Point(List_Matches[i].x + mTemplate_Bgr.cols, List_Matches[i].y + mTemplate_Bgr.rows),Scalar(0,255,0), 2);
    }

    imshow("Final Results",mResult_Bgr);

    waitKey(0);

    return 0;
}