crop triangle from blackbackground - c++

Question

I'm new to image processing and development.I have a triangle in black background. I want to save that triangle as a Mat object without black pixels[0]. In order to do I tried as below.
Set threshold
find contours
identify contour[0] as trangle // has 2 contours one is triangle other one is backpixels.
save the contour points
crop the image.
My code please find below.
Mat finalImage = imread("test.png, CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE);
img.copyTo(finalImage, mask);
Mat canny_output;
vector<vector<Point> > contours;
vector<Vec4i> hierarchy;
int thresh = 100;
int max_thresh = 255;
RNG rng(12345);
/// Detect edges using canny
Canny(finalImage, canny_output, thresh, thresh * 2, 3);
/// Find contours
findContours(canny_output, contours, hierarchy, CV_RETR_TREE, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE, Point(0, 0)); //find this method
/// Draw contours
Mat drawing = Mat::zeros(canny_output.size(), CV_8UC1);
for (int i = 0; i< contours.size(); i++)
{
Scalar color = Scalar(rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0, 255));
drawContours(drawing, contours, i, color, 2, 8, hierarchy, 0, Point()); // find this method.
}
I have points of contour but by using points of contours i have no idea how to crop only the trangle in input image.

Answer 1

You can get the bounding Rect of the various contours at the same time you are re drawing the contours. So in Your for loop where you are iterating the contours, you may use cv::boundingRect() to get the bounding Rect of the respective contour as:
/// Draw contours
Mat drawing = Mat::zeros(canny_output.size(), CV_8UC1);
for (int i = 0; i< contours.size(); i++)
{
Scalar color = Scalar(rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0, 255));
drawContours(drawing, contours, i, color, 2, 8, hierarchy, 0, Point()); // find this method.
cv::Rect boundingRect = cv::boundingRect(contours[i]);
}