CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

get the center of a blob opencv

# read image through command line
img = cv2.imread(args["ipimage"])

# convert the image to grayscale
gray_image = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

# convert the grayscale image to binary image
ret,thresh = cv2.threshold(gray_image,127,255,0)

# find contours in the binary image
im2, contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for c in contours:
   # calculate moments for each contour
   M = cv2.moments(c)

   # calculate x,y coordinate of center
   cX = int(M["m10"] / M["m00"])
   cY = int(M["m01"] / M["m00"])
   cv2.circle(img, (cX, cY), 5, (255, 255, 255), -1)
   cv2.putText(img, "centroid", (cX - 25, cY - 25),cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 0.5, (255, 255, 255), 2)

   # display the image
   cv2.imshow("Image", img)
   cv2.waitKey(0)