OpenCV - Drawing Arrowed Lines

You can draw an arrowed line on an image using the method arrowedLine() of the imgproc class. Following is the syntax of this method −

arrowedLine(Mat img, Point pt1, Point pt2, Scalar color)

This method accepts the following parameters −

• mat − A Mat object representing the image on which the arrowed line is to be drawn.

• pt1 and pt2 − Two Point objects representing the points between which the arrowed line is to be drawn.

• scalar − A Scalar object representing the color of the arrowed line. (BGR)

Example

The following program demonstrates how to draw arrowed line on an image and display it using JavaFX window.

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.embed.swing.SwingFXUtils;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.image.WritableImage;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

import org.opencv.core.Core;
import org.opencv.core.Mat;
import org.opencv.core.MatOfByte;
import org.opencv.core.Point;
import org.opencv.core.Scalar;
import org.opencv.imgcodecs.Imgcodecs;
import org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc;

public class DrawingArrowedLine extends Application {
   Mat matrix = null;

   @Override
   public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
      // Capturing the snapshot from the camera
      DrawingArrowedLine obj = new DrawingArrowedLine();
      WritableImage writableImage = obj.LoadImage();

      // Setting the image view
      ImageView imageView = new ImageView(writableImage);

      // setting the fit height and width of the image view
      imageView.setFitHeight(600);
      imageView.setFitWidth(600);

      // Setting the preserve ratio of the image view
      imageView.setPreserveRatio(true);

      // Creating a Group object
      Group root = new Group(imageView);

      // Creating a scene object
      Scene scene = new Scene(root, 600, 400);

      // Setting title to the Stage
      stage.setTitle("Drawing a line on the image");

      // Adding scene to the stage
      stage.setScene(scene);

      // Displaying the contents of the stage
      stage.show();
   }
   public WritableImage LoadImage() throws Exception {
      // Loading the OpenCV core library
      System.loadLibrary( Core.NATIVE_LIBRARY_NAME );

      // Reading the Image from the file and storing it in to a Matrix object
      String file ="C:/EXAMPLES/OpenCV/Aish.jpg";
      Mat matrix = Imgcodecs.imread(file);

      //Drawing a line
      Imgproc.arrowedLine(
         matrix,                       // Matrix obj of the image
         new Point(10, 200),           // p1
         new Point(590, 200),          // p2
         new Scalar(0, 100, 255)       // Scalar object for color
      );

      // arrowedLine(Mat img, Point pt1, Point pt2, Scalar color)
      // Encoding the image
      MatOfByte matOfByte = new MatOfByte();
      Imgcodecs.imencode(".jpg", matrix, matOfByte);

      // Storing the encoded Mat in a byte array
      byte[] byteArray = matOfByte.toArray();

      // Displaying the image
      InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
      BufferedImage bufImage = ImageIO.read(in);
      this.matrix = matrix;

      // Creating the Writable Image
      WritableImage writableImage = SwingFXUtils.toFXImage(bufImage, null);

      return writableImage;
   }
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      launch(args);
   }
}

On executing the above program, you will get the following output −