OpenCV 坐标表示:理解 (y, x) 与 (x, y) 的区别

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OpenCV 坐标表示:理解 (y, x) 与 (x, y) 的区别

Q

Why sometimes opencv represent a point coordinate as (y,x) (e.g. the result of cv2.findContours) , and sometimes it represent as (x, y) (e.g. the arg center of cv2.circle)?

为什么 OpenCV 有时用 (y,x) 表示坐标点(比如 cv2.findContours 的返回值),有时又用 (x,y) 表示(比如 cv2.circle 函数的 center 参数)?

A

OpenCV uses different conventions for different functions based on their specific requirements and historical reasons:

OpenCV 基于不同函数的具体需求和历史原因,使用了不同的坐标表示约定:

  1. (y, x) Convention: This is often used when dealing with image matrices directly. In image processing, images are typically represented as 2D arrays where the first dimension is the row (height, y-coordinate) and the second dimension is the column (width, x-coordinate). Functions like cv2.findContours return coordinates in this order to match the array indexing.
  1. (y, x) 约定:这种表示方法通常用于直接处理图像矩阵时。在图像处理中,图像通常表示为二维数组,其中第一维是行(高度,y 坐标),第二维是列(宽度,x 坐标)。像 cv2.findContours 这样的函数返回这种顺序的坐标是为了匹配数组索引方式。
  1. (x, y) Convention: This is used in functions that deal with geometric shapes or points in a more traditional Cartesian coordinate system, where x is the horizontal axis and y is the vertical axis. Functions like cv2.circle use this convention to specify the center of the circle.
  1. (x, y) 约定:这种表示方法用于处理几何图形或在传统笛卡尔坐标系中的点,其中 x 是水平轴,y 是垂直轴。像 cv2.circle 这样的函数使用这种约定来指定圆心位置。

The inconsistency arises because OpenCV aims to balance between image matrix operations and geometric operations, each having their own conventional coordinate systems.

这种不一致性的出现是因为 OpenCV 需要在图像矩阵运算和几何运算之间取得平衡,而这两种运算各自有其传统的坐标系统表示方法。

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