Dilate Images and Videos

Here is the original image which I am going to filter using above methods.

Dilating is something like opposite of the eroding an image. Here is the OpenCV code.

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#include "stdafx.h"
#include <cv.h>
#include <highgui.h>

int main()
{
        //display the original image
        IplImage* img = cvLoadImage("C:/MyPic.jpg");
        cvNamedWindow("MyWindow");
        cvShowImage("MyWindow", img);

        //dilate and display the dilated image
        cvDilate(img, img, 0, 2);
        cvNamedWindow("Dilated");
        cvShowImage("Dilated", img);

        cvWaitKey(0);
       
        //cleaning up
        cvDestroyWindow("MyWindow");
        cvDestroyWindow("Dilated");
        cvReleaseImage(&img);
       
        return 0;
}
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You can download this OpenCV visual c++ project from here. 

Dilated Image

New OpenCV functions which are not found earlier are explained here

• cvDilate(img, img, 0, 2)

The 1st parameter is the source image.
The 2nd parameter is the destination image which is to be the dilated image.

Here the 3rd parameter is the structuring element used for dilation. If it is 0, a 3×3 rectangular structuring element is used. 

The 4th parameter is the number of times, dilation is applied.

This function can process images in place. That means same variable can be used for the 1st and 2nd parameters.