Find area of cv2.findContours() (Python, OpenCV)

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I am trying to find/calculate the contour area in the next image:

contour

The goal is to delete all the dots you can see in image, so the blobs contoured with an area smaller than a value I give.

removal

How can I set this ?

This is the code I used...

import cv2

im = cv2.imread('source.png')
imgray = cv2.cvtColor(im,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
ret,thresh = cv2.threshold(imgray,127,255,0)
image, contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)

img = cv2.drawContours(im, contours, -1, (0,255,0), 1)

cv2.imshow('contour',img)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.imwrite('contour.png',img)

...and this is the source image:

origin

Thank you

opencv python
2 Answers

You can use cv2.contourArea() to decide which to draw:

for contour in contours:
    if cv2.contourArea(contour) < 80:
        cv2.drawContours(im, contour, -1, (255, 255, 255), 3)
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There are multiple ways of doing this. One way would be to find area of bounding rectangle.

for contour in contours:
   rect = cv2.boundingRect(contour)
   area = rect[2] * rect[3]
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