Find and draw largest rect OpenCV

Question

I need to find the largest contour/rect on this image which should be the card.

I try to use the following code but I get no drawing:

int largest_area=0;
int largest_contour_index=0;
cv::Rect bounding_rect;

Mat thr(src.rows,src.cols,CV_8UC1);
Mat dst(src.rows,src.cols,CV_8UC1,Scalar::all(0));
cvtColor(src,thr,CV_BGR2GRAY); //Convert to gray
threshold(thr, thr,25, 255,THRESH_BINARY); //Threshold the gray

vector<vector<cv::Point>> contours; // Vector for storing contour
vector<Vec4i> hierarchy;

findContours( thr, contours, hierarchy,CV_RETR_CCOMP, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE ); // Find the contours in the image

for( int i = 0; i< contours.size(); i++ ) // iterate through each contour.
{
    double a=contourArea( contours[i],false);  //  Find the area of contour
    if(a>largest_area){
        largest_area=a;
        largest_contour_index=i;                //Store the index of largest contour
        bounding_rect=boundingRect(contours[i]); // Find the bounding rectangle for biggest contour
    }

}

Scalar color( 255,255,255);
drawContours( dst, contours,largest_contour_index, color, CV_FILLED, 8, hierarchy ); // Draw the largest contour using previously stored index.
rectangle(src, bounding_rect,  Scalar(0,255,0),1, 8,0);

Could someone provide me with an example using this image to find the largest rect?

Answer 1

1. You can try yourself by increasing the threshold.

2. Here You are finding biggest contour on thresholded image, so display thr just after threshold() using imshow() and see what going on , and how it's look like.

See the result by increasing the threshold to little higher value.

threshold(thr, thr,100, 255,THRESH_BINARY); //Threshold the gray

Threshold image

Bounding rect for biggest contour