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insanePi
insanePi

Reputation: 61

pixel values of image are changed without modification in opencv python

I tried to detect edges of an image. For that, I wrote the following code:

import numpy as np
import cv2
import math
img = cv2.imread('download.jpg',0)
img1 = img
k = img.shape
i=1
x=k[0]
y=k[1]
print x,y
while(i<(x-2)):
    j=1
    while(j<(y-2)):
        a = (int(img[i,j+1])-int(img[i,j]))
        b = (int(img[i+1,j])-int(img[i,j]))
        c = (a**2) + (b**2)
        img1[i,j] = math.sqrt(c)
        #img1[i,j] = a
        j+=1
    i+=1
i=1
print "img"
print img
print "img1"
print img1
print i,j
cv2.imshow("image1",img1)
cv2.imshow("image",img)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

No where in the code img is modified. Yet, at the end of the code, the pixel values of img are changed(which are same as img1). Can anybody explain me what Iam missing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 200

Answers (1)

bakkal
bakkal

Reputation: 55448

Reason is, assignment statements in Python do not copy objects, after you did img1 = img, img and img1 still point to the same Image object, you need to make a copy if you need to mutate the objects independently

You can also simply instantiate two Image objects

img = cv2.imread('download.jpg', 0)
img1 = cv2.imread('download.jpg', 0)

Otherwise you'll need to copy the python object img, e.g. using https://docs.python.org/2/library/copy.html

Upvotes: 1

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