Shape factor for the rectangularity of a region.

The operator rectangularity calculates the rectangularity of the input regions.

To determine the rectangularity, first a rectangle is computed that has the same first and second order moments as the input region. The computation of the rectangularity measure is finally based on the area of the difference between the computed rectangle and the input region normalized with respect to the area of the rectangle.

For rectangles rectangularity returns the value 1. The more the input region deviates from a perfect rectangle, the less the returned value for Rectangularity will be.

In case of an empty region the operator rectangularity returns the value 0 (if no other behavior was set (see set_system)). If more than one region is passed the numerical values of the rectangularity are stored in a tuple, the position of a value in the tuple corresponding to the position of the region in the input tuple.

For input regions which orientation cannot be computed by using second order moments (as it is the case for square regions, for example), the returned Rectangularity is underestimated by up to 10% depending on the orientation of the input region.

The operator rectangularity returns the value 2 (H_MSG_TRUE) if the input is not empty. The behavior in case of empty input (no input regions available) is set via the operator set_system('no_object_result',<Result>). The behavior in case of empty region (the region is the empty set) is set via set_system('empty_region_result',<Result>). If necessary an exception handling is raised.

rectangularity is reentrant and automatically parallelized (on tuple level).

threshold, regiongrowing, connection

circularity, compactness, convexity, eccentricity

contlength, area_center, select_shape

P. L. Rosin: ``Measuring rectangularity''; Machine Vision and Applications; vol. 11; pp. 191-196; Springer-Verlag, 1999.

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