Depth Feature Extraction from true color Image

I'm a Masters student and doing a final year project based Image Processing. Here I am using matlab programming. I need your help in this regards. Some idea of my project has given below:

1. There have some waste bin containers, images of the bin will be taken before and after waste collection. I have to calculate the amount of waste of each container from the captured images.

2. Here I can show the result direct in percentage of the container, like it was 10% fill up, 50% fill up ..... or I can show by level waste was full, half full or empty etc..

Look forward to your kind reply in this regards

Thanks and Regards Md. Shafiqul Islam UKM, Malaysia [phone]

[Walter Roberson]

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Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I assume these images are a side view of transparent containers with a contrasting background, though I can't tell because you forgot to tell us the URL of where your images are. Anyway, threshold, then call bwlabel and regionprops. Get the width and area and divide area by width to get the average depth of the trash in each container.