How to replace a function vision.TextInserter() with a function insertText()?

htextinsRed = vision.TextInserter('Text', 'Red   : %2d', ... % Set text for number of blobs
                                    'Location',  [5 2], ...
                                    'Color', [1 0 0], ... // red color
                                    'Font', 'Courier New', ...
                                    'FontSize', 14);

[Santosh Fatale]

Hi Vitaliy,

Could you please share the MATLAB version that you are using for the above code snippet?

[Vitaliy Rychak]

R2020а

Answer 1

[Shrey Tripathi]

Hello Vitaliy,

You can use the insertText() function as follows:

% Load image

img = imread('image_file.png');

% Define position for text

position = [5 5];

% Number of blobs

num_blobs = 10;

% Format text

text = sprintf('Red : %2d', num_blobs);

% Insert text

img = insertText(img, position, text, 'FontSize', 14, 'Font', 'Courier New', 'TextColor', 'red');

% Display image

imshow(img);

Where img is your image on which you need to insert the text.

[Vitaliy Rychak]

how is it possible to replace in this code?

%% Initialization
redThresh = 0.24; % Threshold for red detection
greenThresh = 0.05; % Threshold for green detection
blueThresh = 0.15; % Threshold for blue detection

vidDevice = imaq.VideoDevice('winvideo', 1, 'YUY2_640x480', ... % Acquire input video stream
                    'ROI', [1 1 640 480], ...
                    'ReturnedColorSpace', 'rgb');
vidInfo = imaqhwinfo(vidDevice); % Acquire input video property
hblob = vision.BlobAnalysis('AreaOutputPort', false, ... % Set blob analysis handling
                                'CentroidOutputPort', true, ... 
                                'BoundingBoxOutputPort', true', ...
                                'MinimumBlobArea', 600, ...
                                'MaximumBlobArea', 3000, ...
                                'MaximumCount', 10);
hshapeinsBox = vision.ShapeInserter('BorderColorSource', 'Input port', ... % Set box handling
                                        'Fill', true, ...
                                        'FillColorSource', 'Input port', ...
                                        'Opacity', 0.4);
htextinsRed = vision.TextInserter('Text', 'Red   : %2d', ... % Set text for number of blobs
                                    'Location',  [5 2], ...
                                    'Color', [1 0 0], ... // red color
                                    'Font', 'Courier New', ...
                                    'FontSize', 14);
htextinsGreen = vision.TextInserter('Text', 'Green : %2d', ... % Set text for number of blobs
                                    'Location',  [5 18], ...
                                    'Color', [0 1 0], ... // green color
                                    'Font', 'Courier New', ...
                                    'FontSize', 14);
htextinsBlue = vision.TextInserter('Text', 'Blue  : %2d', ... % Set text for number of blobs
                                    'Location',  [5 34], ...
                                    'Color', [0 0 1], ... // blue color
                                    'Font', 'Courier New', ...
                                    'FontSize', 14);
htextinsCent = vision.TextInserter('Text', '+      X:%4d, Y:%4d', ... % set text for centroid
                                    'LocationSource', 'Input port', ...
                                    'Color', [1 1 0], ... // yellow color
                                    'Font', 'Courier New', ...
                                    'FontSize', 14);
hVideoIn = vision.VideoPlayer('Name', 'Final Video', ... % Output video player
                                'Position', [100 100 vidInfo.MaxWidth+20 vidInfo.MaxHeight+30]);
nFrame = 0; % Frame number initialization

%% Processing Loop
while(nFrame < 300)
    rgbFrame = step(vidDevice); % Acquire single frame
    rgbFrame = flipdim(rgbFrame,2); % obtain the mirror image for displaying
    
    diffFrameRed = imsubtract(rgbFrame(:,:,1), rgb2gray(rgbFrame)); % Get red component of the image
    diffFrameRed = medfilt2(diffFrameRed, [3 3]); % Filter out the noise by using median filter
    binFrameRed = im2bw(diffFrameRed, redThresh); % Convert the image into binary image with the red objects as white
    
    diffFrameGreen = imsubtract(rgbFrame(:,:,2), rgb2gray(rgbFrame)); % Get green component of the image
    diffFrameGreen = medfilt2(diffFrameGreen, [3 3]); % Filter out the noise by using median filter
    binFrameGreen = im2bw(diffFrameGreen, greenThresh); % Convert the image into binary image with the green objects as white
    
    diffFrameBlue = imsubtract(rgbFrame(:,:,3), rgb2gray(rgbFrame)); % Get blue component of the image
    diffFrameBlue = medfilt2(diffFrameBlue, [3 3]); % Filter out the noise by using median filter
    binFrameBlue = im2bw(diffFrameBlue, blueThresh); % Convert the image into binary image with the blue objects as white
    
    [centroidRed, bboxRed] = step(hblob, binFrameRed); % Get the centroids and bounding boxes of the red blobs
    centroidRed = uint16(centroidRed); % Convert the centroids into Integer for further steps 
    
    [centroidGreen, bboxGreen] = step(hblob, binFrameGreen); % Get the centroids and bounding boxes of the green blobs
    centroidGreen = uint16(centroidGreen); % Convert the centroids into Integer for further steps 
    
    [centroidBlue, bboxBlue] = step(hblob, binFrameBlue); % Get the centroids and bounding boxes of the blue blobs
    centroidBlue = uint16(centroidBlue); % Convert the centroids into Integer for further steps 
    
    rgbFrame(1:50,1:90,:) = 0; % put a black region on the output stream
    vidIn = step(hshapeinsBox, rgbFrame, bboxRed, single([1 0 0])); % Instert the red box
    vidIn = step(hshapeinsBox, vidIn, bboxGreen, single([0 1 0])); % Instert the green box
    vidIn = step(hshapeinsBox, vidIn, bboxBlue, single([0 0 1])); % Instert the blue box
    for object = 1:1:length(bboxRed(:,1)) % Write the corresponding centroids for red
        centXRed = centroidRed(object,1); centYRed = centroidRed(object,2);
        vidIn = step(htextinsCent, vidIn, [centXRed centYRed], [centXRed-6 centYRed-9]); 
    end
    for object = 1:1:length(bboxGreen(:,1)) % Write the corresponding centroids for green
        centXGreen = centroidGreen(object,1); centYGreen = centroidGreen(object,2);
        vidIn = step(htextinsCent, vidIn, [centXGreen centYGreen], [centXGreen-6 centYGreen-9]); 
    end
    for object = 1:1:length(bboxBlue(:,1)) % Write the corresponding centroids for blue
        centXBlue = centroidBlue(object,1); centYBlue = centroidBlue(object,2);
        vidIn = step(htextinsCent, vidIn, [centXBlue centYBlue], [centXBlue-6 centYBlue-9]); 
    end
    vidIn = step(htextinsRed, vidIn, uint8(length(bboxRed(:,1)))); % Count the number of red blobs
    vidIn = step(htextinsGreen, vidIn, uint8(length(bboxGreen(:,1)))); % Count the number of green blobs
    vidIn = step(htextinsBlue, vidIn, uint8(length(bboxBlue(:,1)))); % Count the number of blue blobs
    step(hVideoIn, vidIn); % Output video stream
    nFrame = nFrame+1;
end
%% Clearing Memory
release(hVideoIn); % Release all memory and buffer used
release(vidDevice);
clear all;
clc;