.. _good_features_to_track:

Shi-Tomasi corner detector
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Goal
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In this tutorial you will learn how to:

.. container:: enumeratevisibleitemswithsquare

   * Use the function :good_features_to_track:`goodFeaturesToTrack <>` to detect corners using the Shi-Tomasi method.

Theory
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Code
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This tutorial code's is shown lines below. You can also download it from `here <http://code.opencv.org/projects/opencv/repository/revisions/master/raw/samples/cpp/tutorial_code/TrackingMotion/goodFeaturesToTrack_Demo.cpp>`_

.. code-block:: cpp

   #include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"
   #include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
   #include <iostream>
   #include <stdio.h>
   #include <stdlib.h>

   using namespace cv;
   using namespace std;

   /// Global variables
   Mat src, src_gray;

   int maxCorners = 23;
   int maxTrackbar = 100;

   RNG rng(12345);
   char* source_window = "Image";

   /// Function header
   void goodFeaturesToTrack_Demo( int, void* );

   /**
    * @function main
    */
   int main( int argc, char** argv )
   {
     /// Load source image and convert it to gray
     src = imread( argv[1], 1 );
     cvtColor( src, src_gray, CV_BGR2GRAY );

     /// Create Window
     namedWindow( source_window, CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );

     /// Create Trackbar to set the number of corners
     createTrackbar( "Max  corners:", source_window, &maxCorners, maxTrackbar, goodFeaturesToTrack_Demo );

     imshow( source_window, src );

     goodFeaturesToTrack_Demo( 0, 0 );

     waitKey(0);
     return(0);
   }

   /**
    * @function goodFeaturesToTrack_Demo.cpp
    * @brief Apply Shi-Tomasi corner detector
    */
   void goodFeaturesToTrack_Demo( int, void* )
   {
     if( maxCorners < 1 ) { maxCorners = 1; }

     /// Parameters for Shi-Tomasi algorithm
     vector<Point2f> corners;
     double qualityLevel = 0.01;
     double minDistance = 10;
     int blockSize = 3;
     bool useHarrisDetector = false;
     double k = 0.04;

     /// Copy the source image
     Mat copy;
     copy = src.clone();

     /// Apply corner detection
     goodFeaturesToTrack( src_gray,
                  corners,
                  maxCorners,
                  qualityLevel,
                  minDistance,
                  Mat(),
                  blockSize,
                  useHarrisDetector,
                  k );


     /// Draw corners detected
     cout<<"** Number of corners detected: "<<corners.size()<<endl;
     int r = 4;
     for( int i = 0; i < corners.size(); i++ )
        { circle( copy, corners[i], r, Scalar(rng.uniform(0,255), rng.uniform(0,255),
                 rng.uniform(0,255)), -1, 8, 0 ); }

     /// Show what you got
     namedWindow( source_window, CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );
     imshow( source_window, copy );
   }

Explanation
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Result
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.. image:: images/Feature_Detection_Result_a.jpg
              :align: center


