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Getting an error when trying to do morphological transformations on an 8x8 matrix

I'm trying to do morphological transformations on a 8x8 matrix with a 3x3 cross shaped kernel. I want to apply erosion, dilation,open and close to A1 with the kernel B1. I am getting an error and I don't know how to solve the issue. Here what the matrix and kernel look like

This is what I have so far.

import cv2 as cv
import numpy as np

# A1 = 8x8 matrix
A1 = np.array([[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],
               [0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0],
               [0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0],
               [0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0],
               [0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0],
               [0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0],
               [0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0],
               [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]])

# Cross-shaped kernel (structuring element)
cv.getStructuringElement(cv.MORPH_CROSS,(3,3))
kernel = np.array ([[0, 1, 0],
                    [1, 1, 1],
                    [0, 1, 0]], dtype = np.uint8)

# Dilation
dilation = cv.dilate(A1,kernel,iterations = 1)
cv.imshow('dilation', dilation)

# Erosion
erosion = cv.erode(A1,kernel,iterations = 1)
cv.imshow('erosion', erosion)

# Opening
opening = cv.morphologyEx(A1, cv.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
cv.imshow('opening', opening)

# Closing
closing = cv.morphologyEx(A1, cv.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel)
cv.imshow('closing', closing)

cv.waitKey(0)
cv.destroyAllWindows()
cv.waitKey(1)  # If I dont have this line then the window won't close for me on my mac when I enter a key

I don't know why I'm getting this error?


  File "/Users/p/.spyder-py3/My_OpenCV_Files/Homework3_CSC317/Hw3-problem1.py", line 24, in <module>
    dilation = cv.dilate(A1,kernel,iterations = 1)

error: OpenCV(3.4.2) /opt/concourse/worker/volumes/live/
9523d527-1b9e-48e0-7ed0a36adde286f0/volume/opencvsuite_1535558719691/work
/modules/imgproc/src/morph.cpp:973: 
error: (-213:The function/feature is not implemented) Unsupported data type (=4) in function 'getMorphologyFilter'
Solution

  • Your error message

    Unsupported data type (=4) in function 'getMorphologyFilter'

    Says that cv.dilation doesn’t support the data type of the input image (type 4 is signed 32-bit integer).

    The documentation says that supported types are: CV_8U, CV_16U, CV_16S, CV_32F and CV_64F.

    So the solution is simply to create an array with one of those types as input.