Reputation: 67
I get an image stored as an object from a camera that look like this (here reduced to make it understandable):
image = np.array([['#49312E', '#4A3327', '#493228', '#472F2A'],
['#452C29', '#49312E', '#4B3427', '#49312A'],
['#473026', '#472F2C', '#48302B', '#4C342B']])
is it possible to 'import' it as an 'image' in opencv?
I tried to look at the documentation of cv2.imdecode
but could get it to work.
I could preprocess this array to get it to another format but I am not sure what could 'fit' to opencv.
Thank you for your help
Upvotes: 2
Views: 999
Reputation: 240
OpenCV requires either a RGB or a BGR input, which is to say you need to give the values of Red Green Blue or Blue Green Red on a scale from 0-255 (8 bit). I have shared with you the code to convert your array to an image.
Initially, I count the number of rows to find the height in terms of pixels. Then I count the number of items in a row to find the width.
Then I create an empty array of the given dimensions using np.zeros.
I then go to each cell and convert the hex code to its RGB equivalent, using the following formula #RRGGBB, R = int(RR,16), G = int(GG, 16), B = int(BB, 16). This converts the hexadecimal string to int.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import numpy as np
import re
import cv2
# Your image
image = np.array([['#49312E', '#4A3327', '#493228', '#472F2A'],
['#452C29', '#49312E', '#4B3427', '#49312A'],
['#473026', '#472F2C', '#48302B', '#4C342B']])
# Enter the image height and width
height = int(len(image[0]))
width = int(len(image[0][0]))
# Create numpy array of BGR triplets
im = np.zeros((height,width,3), dtype=np.uint8)
for row in range (height):
for col in range(width):
hex = image[row, col][1:]
R = int(hex[0:2],16)
G = int(hex[2:4],16)
B = int(hex[4:6],16)
im[row,col] = (B,G,R)
# Save to disk
cv2.imwrite('result.png', im)
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 999
This is a very succinct and pythonic (using NumPy) way to implement a conversion from your hexadecimal values matrix to an RGB matrix that could be read by OpenCV.
image = np.array([['#49312E', '#4A3327', '#493228', '#472F2A'],
['#452C29', '#49312E', '#4B3427', '#49312A'],
['#473026', '#472F2C', '#48302B', '#4C342B']])
def to_rgb(v):
return np.array([np.int(v[1:3],16), np.int(v[3:5],16) , np.int(v[5:7],16)])
image_cv = np.array([to_rgb(h) for h in image.flatten()]).reshape(3, 4, 3)
cv2.imwrite('result.png', image_cv)
Upvotes: 3