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Reputation: 33

Converting BGR image to grayscale using numpy

I have a small question hope you guys can help me. I know that to convert a RGB image to grayscale without using numpy, we can use:

img = cv2.imread(input_file, cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
r, g, b = img[:, :, 0], img[:, :, 1], img[:, :, 2]
img_gray = 0.2989 * r + 0.5870 * g + 0.1140 * b

Now I want to read the image by BGR scale then convert that BGR image to grayscale not using cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY, how can I do it with the similar code above?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 736

Answers (1)

Mark Setchell
Mark Setchell

Reputation: 207465

OpenCV will read the file into memory in BGR order, even though it is RGB on disk. That's just the way it works. So you need to change your second line to:

b, g, r = img[:, :, 0], img[:, :, 1], img[:, :, 2]

Then your third line will work correctly, although you may want to make unsigned 8-bit integers with:

img_gray = (0.2989 * r + 0.5870 * g + 0.1140 * b).astype(np.uint8)

By the way, you could actually do it faster with numpy like this:

import numpy as np

grey = np.dot(img[...,::-1], [0.299, 0.587, 0.114]).astype(np.uint8)

Upvotes: 2

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