How does imshow know the color map of the image?

asked 2017-03-10 04:16:37 -0600

Cristian
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I'm in Python.

By default, imshow displays the image reading as BGR format. But if you transform the image, for example, to gray, imshow knows how to display it properly.

So I ask a couple questions,

1)How does imshow, looking only at the data of the image, how it must display it (gray, BGR... etc) 2)Is there a way to tell opencv easily that it must read in another format? For example, YUV or whatever.

Thanks, I'm pretty noob.

answered 2017-03-10 04:43:26 -0600

berak
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neither cv::Mat, nor numpy arrays "know" about the colorspace at all.

imshow() will only look at the channels and the depth (float images will get multiplied by 255)

so, if you throw a yuv image at it, Y will get mapped to the 1st(blue), U will go into green, and V into red channel for visualization. - that's it !

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But if you transform to gray an image, it gets only one channel (the gray level). That is how opencv knows it is in gray and not BGR?

Thank you

Cristian ( 2017-03-10 04:49:45 -0600 )edit

gray scale images only have 1 channel, bgr (or hsv, or yuv) have 3

if there is only one channel, it will use the same value for each b g r scannel, when drawing

berak ( 2017-03-10 05:16:53 -0600 )edit

Now I understand it perfectly. Thanks again!

Cristian ( 2017-03-10 08:39:23 -0600 )edit

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