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marshall al karim
marshall al karim

Reputation: 11

"Exception has occurred: error" in cv2.imshow

I just tried to make simple computer vision code that copied from some website using python 3.6.6 and openCV4.1.0 but there's an error,what is my fault?

in every "cv2.imshow" there's always has some error

import cv2

cam = cv2.VideoCapture(1)

cv2.namedWindow("test")

img_counter = 0

while True:
    ret, frame = cam.read()
    cv2.imshow("test", frame)
    if not ret:
        break
    k = cv2.waitKey(1)

    if k%256 == 27:
        # ESC pressed
        print("Escape hit, closing...")
        break
    elif k%256 == 32:
        # SPACE pressed
        img_name = "opencv_frame_{}.png".format(img_counter)
        cv2.imwrite(img_name, frame)
        print("{} written!".format(img_name))
        img_counter += 1

cam.release()

cv2.destroyAllWindows()

it should compile as webcam view on my laptop. but this is what i got:

Exception has occurred: error
OpenCV(4.1.0) ../modules/highgui/src/window.cpp:352: error: (-215:Assertion failed) size.width>0 && size.height>0 in function 'imshow'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2880

Answers (2)

Mailerdaimon
Mailerdaimon

Reputation: 6090

This part of your error

size.width>0 && size.height>0

tells you that either the width or the height of your image is zero. This means thatframe is not valid and can not be shown. Check that your frame is valid before showing.

The good thing is that cam.read() already tells you if the reading was successful as can be read in the documentation (cap is equal to your cam):

cap.read() returns a bool (True/False). If frame is read correctly, it will be True. So you can check end of the video by checking this return value.

The actual reading and showing should look like this:

while(cap.isOpened()):
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    if ret==True:   # frame is valid
        # show the frame
        cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
        if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
            break
    else:
        break

Full Example using your code:

import cv2

cam = cv2.VideoCapture(0) # adjusted to the first device '0'
img_counter = 0

while(True):
    ret, frame = cam.read()
    if ret:   # frame is valid
        # show the frame
        cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
        key = cv2.waitKey(1)
        if key & 0xFF == ord('s'): # s for saving
            print("S hit, saving...")
            img_name = "opencv_frame_{}.png".format(img_counter)
            cv2.imwrite(img_name, frame)
            print("{} written!".format(img_name))
            img_counter += 1
        if key & 0xFF == ord('q'): # q for quitting
            print("Q hit, closing...")
            break
    else:
        print("Frame not valid")          
cam.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

If all your frames are invalid (video device not working) it will print

'Frame not valid'

the whole time to show you that something is wrong. I adjusted the parameter of VideoCapture to use the first video device of your system (counting starts at 0 not 1). The Example uses 's' for saving and 'q' for quitting.

Upvotes: 0

Employee
Employee

Reputation: 3233

The key here is to remember that whenever you perform a cv2.imshow() operation inside a while True cycle, the following structure has to be used: 

while True: 
    r, f = cam.read()
    if r: 
        cv2.imshow("f", f)
        if cv2.waitkey(1) & 0xff == ord('q'):
            break

Then you can build all your application logic around this basic structure.

Upvotes: 2

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