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+## Copyright (C) 2008 Soren Hauberg
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+## Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} @var{accum}= hough_circle (@var{bw}, @var{r})
+## Perform the Hough transform for circles with radius @var{r} on the
+## black-and-white image @var{bw}.
+##
+## As an example, the following shows how to compute the Hough transform for circles
+## with radius 3 or 7 in the image @var{im}
+## @example
+## bw = edge(im);
+## accum = hough_circle(bw, [3, 7]);
+## @end example
+## If @var{im} is an NxM image @var{accum} will be an NxMx2 array, where
+## @var{accum}(:,:,1) will contain the Hough transform for circles with
+## radius 3, and @var{accum}(:,:,2) for radius 7. To find good circles you
+## now need to find local maximas in @var{accum}, which can be a hard problem.
+## If you find a local maxima in @var{accum}(row, col, 1) it means that a
+## good circle exists with center (row,col) and radius 3.
+##
+## @seealso{houghtf}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function accum = hough_circle(bw, r)
+ ## Check input arguments
+ if (nargin != 2)
+ error("hough_circle: wrong number of input arguments");
+ endif
+
+ if (!ismatrix(bw) || ndims(bw) != 2)
+ error("hough_circle: first arguments must be a 2-dimensional matrix");
+ endif
+
+ if (!isvector(r) || !isreal(r) || any(r<0))
+ error("hough_circle: radius arguments must be a positive vector or scalar");
+ endif
+
+ ## Create the accumulator array.
+ accum = zeros(size(bw,1), size(bw,2), length(r));
+
+ ## Find the pixels we need to look at
+ [R, C] = find(bw);
+
+ ## Iterate over different radius
+ for j = 1:length(r)
+ rad = r(j);
+
+ ## Compute a filter containing the circle we're looking for.
+ circ = circle(rad);
+
+ ## Iterate over all interesting image points
+ for i =1:length(R)
+ row = R(i);
+ col = C(i);
+
+ ## Compute indices for the accumulator array
+ a_rows = max(row-rad,1) : min(row+rad, size(accum,1));
+ a_cols = max(col-rad,1) : min(col+rad, size(accum,2));
+
+ ## Compute indices for the circle array (the filter)
+ c_rows = max(rad-row+2,1) : min(rad-row+1+size(accum,1), size(circ,1));
+ c_cols = max(rad-col+2,1) : min(rad-col+1+size(accum,2), size(circ,2));
+
+ ## Update the accumulator array
+ accum( a_rows, a_cols, j ) += circ ( c_rows, c_cols );
+ endfor
+ endfor
+endfunction
+
+## Small auxilary function that creates an (2r+1)x(2r+1) image containing
+## a circle with radius r and center (r+1, r+1).
+function circ = circle(r)
+ circ = zeros(round(2*r+1));
+ col = 1:size(circ,2);
+ for row=1:size(circ,1)
+ tmp = (row-(r+1)).^2 + (col-(r+1)).^2;
+ circ(row,col) = (tmp <= r^2);
+ endfor
+ circ = bwmorph(circ, 'remove');
+endfunction