OpenCV中minAreaRect的使用说明

minAreaRect的主要作用是获取一个多边形（就是有很多个点组成的一个图形）的最小旋转矩形（旋转矩形就是我们平常见到的水平框带了角度）。

OpenCV中使用vector<Point>可以组成多个点的多边形，或者四个点的带角度的矩形。

C++中，带角度的矩形可以通过这种方式拿到：

vector<Point> ployPoints{Point(x1,y1),Point(x2,y2),Point(x3,y3),Point(x4,y5)};
RotatedRect rotated_rect = minAreaRect(ployPoints);

而python中是这样的，其中segmentation是这样的：[x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, x4, y4]:

segmentation = segmentation.reshape([-1, 2])
  rect1 = cv2.minAreaRect(segmentation)
  x, y, w, h, theta = rect1[0][0], rect1[0][1], rect1[1][0], rect1[1][1], rect1[2]

举个实际的例子：

# [x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, x4, y4]
ployPoints = np.array([283.30, 72.65, 309.21, 72.90, 309.07, 87.79, 283.16, 87.54])

ployPoints = ployPoints.reshape([-1, 2]).astype(np.int32)
print(ployPoints)
rect1 = cv2.minAreaRect(ployPoints)
x, y, w, h, theta = rect1[0][0], rect1[0][1], rect1[1][0], rect1[1][1], rect1[2]
print(x,y,w,h,theta)

# 
[[283  72]
 [309  72]
 [309  87]
 [283  87]]
296.0 79.5 15.0 26.0 90.0

需要注意一点，看下图那就是这个角度是按照第一个找到的边做width，这个width可能是长边可能也不是！这点需要注意，是个坑！

发一下OpenCV-C++源码对RotatedRect的表述：

class CV_EXPORTS RotatedRect
{
public:
    //! various constructors
    RotatedRect();
    RotatedRect(const Point2f& center, const Size2f& size, float angle);
    RotatedRect(const CvBox2D& box);

    //! returns 4 vertices of the rectangle
    void points(Point2f pts[]) const;
    //! returns the minimal up-right rectangle containing the rotated rectangle
    Rect boundingRect() const;
    //! conversion to the old-style CvBox2D structure
    operator CvBox2D() const;

    Point2f center; //< the rectangle mass center
    Size2f size;    //< width and height of the rectangle
    float angle;    //< the rotation angle. When the angle is 0, 90, 180, 270 etc., the rectangle becomes an up-right rectangle.
};