public static Mat getCCH(Mat image) {
    ArrayList<MatOfPoint> contours = new ArrayList<MatOfPoint>();
    Mat hierarchy = new Mat();
    Imgproc.findContours(
        image, contours, hierarchy, Imgproc.RETR_EXTERNAL, Imgproc.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE);

    Mat chainHistogram = Mat.zeros(1, 8, CvType.CV_32F);
    int n = 0;
    MatOfPoint2f approxCurve = new MatOfPoint2f();
    for (MatOfPoint contour : contours) {

      // get the freeman chain code from the contours
      int rows = contour.rows();
      // System.out.println("\nrows"+rows+"\n"+contour.dump());
      int direction = 7;
      Mat prevPoint = contours.get(0).row(0);
      n += rows - 1;
      for (int i = 1; i < rows; i++) {
        // get the current point
        double x1 = contour.get(i - 1, 0)[1];
        double y1 = contour.get(i - 1, 0)[0];

        // get the second point
        double x2 = contour.get(i, 0)[1];
        double y2 = contour.get(i, 0)[0];

        if (x2 == x1 && y2 == y1 + 1) direction = 0;
        else if (x2 == x1 - 1 && y2 == y1 + 1) direction = 1;
        else if (x2 == x1 - 1 && y2 == y1) direction = 2;
        else if (x2 == x1 - 1 && y2 == y1 - 1) direction = 3;
        else if (x2 == x1 && y2 == y1 - 1) direction = 4;
        else if (x2 == x1 + 1 && y2 == y1 - 1) direction = 5;
        else if (x2 == x1 + 1 && y2 == y1) direction = 6;
        else if (x2 == x1 + 1 && y2 == y1 + 1) direction = 7;
        else System.out.print("err");
        double counter = chainHistogram.get(0, direction)[0];
        chainHistogram.put(0, direction, ++counter);
        System.out.print(direction);
      }
    }
    System.out.println("\n" + chainHistogram.dump());
    Scalar alpha = new Scalar(n); // the factor
    Core.divide(chainHistogram, alpha, chainHistogram);
    System.out.println("\nrows=" + n + " " + chainHistogram.dump());
    return chainHistogram;
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.loadLibrary(Core.NATIVE_LIBRARY_NAME);

    //      Mat mat = Mat.eye( 3, 3, CvType.CV_8UC1 );
    //      System.out.println( "mat = " + mat.dump() );

    Sample n = new Sample();
    //   n.templateMatching();

    // put text in image
    //      Mat data= Highgui.imread("images/erosion.jpg");

    //      Core.putText(data, "Sample", new Point(50,80), Core.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 1, new
    // Scalar(0,0,0),2);
    //
    //      Highgui.imwrite("images/erosion2.jpg", data);

    // getting dct of an image
    String path = "images/croppedfeature/go (20).jpg";
    path = "images/wordseg/img1.png";
    Mat image = Highgui.imread(path, Highgui.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE);
    ArrayList<MatOfPoint> contours = new ArrayList<MatOfPoint>();

    Imgproc.threshold(image, image, 0, 255, Imgproc.THRESH_OTSU);
    Imgproc.threshold(image, image, 220, 128, Imgproc.THRESH_BINARY_INV);
    Mat newImg = new Mat(45, 100, image.type());

    newImg.setTo(new Scalar(0));
    n.copyMat(image, newImg);

    int vgap = 25;
    int hgap = 45 / 3;

    Moments m = Imgproc.moments(image, false);
    Mat hu = new Mat();
    Imgproc.HuMoments(m, hu);
    System.out.println(hu.dump());

    //      //divide the mat into 12 parts then get the features of each part
    //      int count=1;
    //      for(int j=0; j<45; j+=hgap){
    //    	  for(int i=0;i<100;i+=vgap){
    //    		  Mat result = newImg.submat(j, j+hgap, i, i+vgap);
    //
    //
    //    		  Moments m= Imgproc.moments(result, false);
    //    		  double m01= m.get_m01();
    //    		  double m00= m.get_m00();
    //    		  double m10 = m.get_m10();
    //    		  int x= m00!=0? (int)(m10/m00):0;
    //    		  int y= m00!=0? (int)(m01/m00):0;
    //    		  Mat hu= new Mat();
    //    		  Imgproc.HuMoments(m, hu);
    //    		  System.out.println(hu.dump());
    //    		  System.out.println(count+" :"+x+" and "+y);
    //    		  Imgproc.threshold(result, result, 0,254, Imgproc.THRESH_BINARY_INV);
    //    		  Highgui.imwrite("images/submat/"+count+".jpg", result);
    //    		  count++;
    //
    //    	  }
    //      }
    //
    //    for(int i=vgap;i<100;i+=vgap){
    //	  Point pt1= new Point(i, 0);
    //      Point pt2= new Point(i, 99);
    //      Core.line(newImg, pt1, pt2, new Scalar(0,0,0));
    //  }
    //  for(int i=hgap;i<45;i+=hgap){
    //	  Point pt1= new Point(0, i);
    //      Point pt2= new Point(99, i);
    //      Core.line(newImg, pt1, pt2, new Scalar(0,0,0));
    //  }
    //      Highgui.imwrite("images/submat/copyto.jpg", newImg);
  }