Building Computer Vision Projects with OpenCV 4 and C++

Slimming the shapes

We achieve this effect using an operation called erosion. This is the operation that makes a shape thinner by peeling the boundary layers of all the shapes in the image:

Let's look at the function that performs morphological erosion:

Mat performErosion(Mat inputImage, int erosionElement, int erosionSize){    Mat outputImage;    int erosionType;    if(erosionElement == 0)        erosionType = MORPH_RECT;    else if(erosionElement == 1)        erosionType = MORPH_CROSS;    else if(erosionElement == 2)        erosionType = MORPH_ELLIPSE;    // Create the structuring element for erosion Mat element = getStructuringElement(erosionType, Size(2*erosionSize + 1, 2*erosionSize ...