Test Buoy Detection More extensively

[rkeen9]

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[rkeen9]

• Test how far away the buoy can be detected
• Somehow test it underwater
• try different lighting conditions

[AntonNiko]

From issue #12 :
Issue pinpointed in BuoyDetector.cpp line 20 (hash 726cc87). Two bugs were discovered:

1. No default value for buoy_type provided to constructor, no error handling
2. OpenCV complains that parameter detector.buoy_img is not of type CV_8U. Conversions between types is being worked on

[AntonNiko]

Linking greyscale_img_detection. Since it has been found that cv::imread only returns null data when reading with the cv::IMREAD_GRAYSCALE flag, error handling is placed to handle and inform when such a thing happens.

[robwasmann]

It returns null? Also see the discussion I had in slack with Aman regarding using cvtcolor to convert the image to greyscale first if it's not already.

[AntonNiko]

I tried some conversions that didn't work at all. Specifically detector.buoy_img.data returns a null pointer. Are the flags (e.g cv::IMREAD_GRAYSCALE) only an indication and have no effect on whether an image is read or not? I can work on those conversions then