How do I convert a single channel monochrome image to 3 channel gray scale?

asked 2018-12-28 12:20:31 -0600

mdresser
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I want to use color to annotate a monochrome image.

As I understand it, first I need to convert the single channel monochrome image to a 3 channel gray scale image with BGR channels all set the same. Then I can overlay color annotations on the gray scale image.

It is the first part that has me stumped: It seems like .clone, .copyTo, cvtColor all force the output to the same number of channels as the input?

How do I create a 3 channel copy of a single channel image?

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answered 2018-12-28 12:24:20 -0600

LBerger
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updated 2018-12-28 12:25:11 -0600

use COLOR_GRAY2BGR with cvtColor method

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alternatively, have a look here and here

berak ( 2018-12-28 13:11:33 -0600 )edit

Thanks for the quick response. Using cvtColor did the trick. I was confused!

mdresser ( 2018-12-29 10:39:29 -0600 )edit

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