Today’s blog is going to be a very simple and short blog where we will see how we can input an image and split and merge channels in cv2.
This is going to be a very interesting blog, so without any further due, Let’s do it…
Step 1 – Import the libraries.
import cv2 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Step 2 – Reading and converting the image.
img = cv2.imread('test.jpg')
img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
Step 3 – Let’s check the shape of our input image.
print('Shape of input image --> ', img.shape)
- Here we can see that our input image is made up of 3 channels (RGB) each of size 194 X 259.
- We will be splitting them in the next step
Step 4 – Let’s split and merge channels in cv2.
r, g, b = cv2.split(img)
- cv2.split(img) splits image into individual channels.
- Here our image is made of 3 channels RGB, that’s why it is returning 3 values.
Step 5 – Let’s check the shape of individual channels.
print('Shape of red channel --> ', r.shape)
print('Shape of green channel --> ', g.shape)
print('Shape of blue channel --> ', b.shape)
Step 6 – Let’s plot the results.
images = [cv2.merge((r, g, b)), r, g, b]
plt.subplot(2, 2, 1)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.imshow(images[0])
plt.title('original')
plt.subplot(2, 2, 2)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.imshow(images[1], cmap='Reds')
plt.title('red')
plt.subplot(2, 2, 3)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.imshow(images[2], cmap='Greens')
plt.title('green')
plt.subplot(2, 2, 4)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.imshow(images[3], cmap='Blues')
plt.title('blue')
plt.show()
- cv2.merge() is the exact opposite of the cv2.split().
- It merges all the channels given as arguments.
Let’s see the whole code…
import cv2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
img = cv2.imread('test.jpg')
img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
print('Shape of input image --> ', img.shape)
r, g, b = cv2.split(img)
print('Shape of red channel --> ', r.shape)
print('Shape of green channel --> ', g.shape)
print('Shape of blue channel --> ', b.shape)
images = [cv2.merge((r, g, b)), r, g, b]
plt.subplot(2, 2, 1)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.imshow(images[0])
plt.title('original')
plt.subplot(2, 2, 2)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.imshow(images[1], cmap='Reds')
plt.title('red')
plt.subplot(2, 2, 3)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.imshow(images[2], cmap='Greens')
plt.title('green')
plt.subplot(2, 2, 4)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.imshow(images[3], cmap='Blues')
plt.title('blue')
plt.show()
NOTE – Read more about the split and merge channels in cv2 here.
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So this is all for this blog folks, thanks for reading it and I hope you are taking something with you after reading this and till the next time ?…
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