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Image Processing

Grayscale

An implementation of digital image processing to convert RGB image or colormap to grayscale (rgb2gray).

Content

Requirements

  • Python
  • OpenCV 
    # apt-get install python-opencv

Programming

  • create file grayscale.py
import numpy as np
import cv2

# Load an color image in grayscale
img = cv2.imread('../../lena.png', cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)

cv2.imwrite('lena_grayscale.png',img)

Running

Original Grayscale
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Advanced

There are some packages which support Image Processing for Python also. User can test on it also. - scipy - Pygame - Numpy - Pillow

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