How do you find a centroid of an image?

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I am trying to find the centroid of a binary image using region props but I keep receiving the error "Field reference for multiple structure elements that is followed by more reference blocks is an error". Here is my code for finding the centroid:
measurements = regionprops(bw, 'Centroid');
hold on;
plot(measurements.Centroid(1), measurements.Centroid(2), 'r+', 'MarkerSize', 120, 'LineWidth', 1);
hold off;
imshow(bw)
Any help would be appreciated thank you
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 6 Aug 2014
Do you want the centroid of the whole, entire image, or of individual blobs in the image? You asked about the whole image but your code seems to indicate you maybe want centroids of individual blobs. Of course the centroid of the whole image is at the center, and the "Weighted centroid" depends on the gray levels in the image.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 5 Aug 2014
Maybe try
centroids = [measurements.Centroid];
xCentroids = centroids(1:2:end);
yCentroids = centroids(2:2:end);
plot(xCentroids, yCentroids, .............
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Rish
Rish on 5 Aug 2014
Thank you for your help. When I tried this a line graph showed up without the image. I am not sure why though.
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 6 Aug 2014
Edited: Image Analyst on 6 Aug 2014
If you want the markers to be over the image, put "hold on" before plot(). You must have removed it for some reason.
hold on; % Prevent plot() from blowing away image.
plot(..........., 'r+'........
It looks like you used 'b-' in your call to plot because I see blue lines instead of red plus signs.

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Nade Sritanyaratana
Nade Sritanyaratana on 5 Aug 2014
The example at the end of the regionprops documentation has an elegant use of the cat function, which might be able to fix the error you are getting.
measurements = regionprops(bw, 'Centroid');
imshow(bw);
centroids = cat(1,measurements.Centroid);
hold on;
plot(centroids(:,1), centroids(:,2), 'r+', 'MarkerSize', 120, 'LineWidth', 1);
hold off;
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Rujal
Rujal on 7 Feb 2016
Edited: Rujal on 7 Feb 2016
I have used this code
but I want to find mid point between two centroids. for that I have used
mid= mean(centroids); plot(mid,'r*');
and the result is:
but I want to find midpoint between two centroids of objects. I would be thankful if someone helps me.
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 7 Feb 2016
You can't do that because centroids is [x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3,x4,y4,.....] You need to extract x and y separately:
xCenters = centroids(1:2:end);
yCenters = centroids(2:2:end);
Then you can pick out which two blobs you want to find the midpoint between and average them. For example
xMid = (xCenters(1)+xCenters(2))/2;
yMid = (yCenters(1)+yCenters(2))/2;
hold on;
plot(xMid, yMid, 'r+', 'LineWidth', 2, 'MarkerSize', 20);

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Rish
Rish on 6 Aug 2014
Thank you very much guys. I really appreciate your help and I figured it out.

hallouma amari
hallouma amari on 12 May 2015
Edited: Image Analyst on 12 May 2015
help me too please
this is my error
Field reference for multiple structure elements that is followed by more reference blocks is an error.
img2=imread('56.png');
se=strel('disk',3);
J=imclose(img2,se);
J=rgb2gray(J);
M=imadjust(J);
B=0; %initialisation
[R C]=size(J);
measurements = regionprops(J, 'Centroid');
x2=measurements.Centroid(1);
y2=measurements.Centroid(2);
bw = bwboundaries(J);
boundary = bw{1};
x1=boundary(:,1);
y1=boundary(:,2);
x1 = x1-x2;
y1 = y1-y2;
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 12 May 2015
Try like what I showed:
centroids = [measurements.Centroid];
xCentroids = centroids(1:2:end);
yCentroids = centroids(2:2:end);
% Compute distances of perimeter to centroid of blob #1
bw = bwboundaries(J);
boundary = bw{1};
x1=boundary(:,1);
y1=boundary(:,2);
deltaXs = x1 - xCentroids(1);
deltaYs = y1 - yCentroids(1);

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somia gupta
somia gupta on 10 May 2016
i want to find the centroid of an image in matlab ??? need help for the code for head pose detection

vinoba
vinoba on 11 Mar 2017
How to find centroid of each and every blob(objects) in a binary image?
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 11 Mar 2017
See my Image Segmentation Tutorial in my File Exchange: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=authorid%3A31862
Basically
[labledImage, numBlobs] = bwlabel(binaryImage);
props = regionprops(labeledImage, 'Centroid', 'WeightedCentroid');
You get a structure array with both types of centroids for every region.

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tanuwyot
tanuwyot on 25 Oct 2017
How to locate the nucleus centroid and extract the seven HU moments value ? Please help me

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