The last section of this chapter is dedicated to creating another effect, called cartoonize; the purpose of this effect is to create an image that looks like a cartoon. To do this, we divide the algorithm into two steps: edge detection and color filtering.
The cartoonCallback function defines this effect, which has the following code:
void cartoonCallback(int state, void* userData) { /** EDGES **/ // Apply median filter to remove possible noise Mat imgMedian; medianBlur(img, imgMedian, 7); // Detect edges with canny Mat imgCanny; Canny(imgMedian, imgCanny, 50, 150); // Dilate the edges Mat kernel= getStructuringElement(MORPH_RECT, Size(2,2)); dilate(imgCanny, imgCanny, kernel); // Scale edges values to 1 and invert values ...
