Question

I have two numpy arrays that are OpenCV convex hulls and I want to check for intersection without creating for loops or creating images and performing numpy.bitwise_and on them, both of which are quite slow in Python. The arrays look like this:

[[[x1 y1]]
 [[x2 y2]]
 [[x3 y3]]
...
 [[xn yn]]]

Considering [[x1 y1]] as one single element, I want to perform intersection between two numpy ndarrays. How can I do that? I have found a few questions of similar nature, but I could not figure out the solution to this from there.

Answer 1

So this is what I did to get the job done:

import Polygon, numpy

# Here I extracted and combined some contours and created a convex hull from it.
# Now I wanna check whether a contour acquired differently intersects with this hull or not.

for contour in contours:  # The result of cv2.findContours is a list of contours
    contour1 = contour.flatten()
    contour1 = numpy.reshape(contour1, (int(contour1.shape[0]/2),-1))
    poly1 = Polygon.Polygon(contour1)

    hull = hull.flatten()  # This is the hull is previously constructued
    hull = numpy.reshape(hull, (int(hull.shape[0]/2),-1))
    poly2 = Polygon.Polygon(hull)

    if (poly1 & poly2).area()<= some_max_val:
        some_operations

I had to use for loop, and this altogether looks a bit tedious, although it gives me expected results. Any better methods would be greatly appreciated!