1. Basics of Image Processing

Activity 1.01: Mirror Effect with a Twist

Solution:

1. Let's start by importing the necessary libraries:

   # Load modules
   import cv2
   import numpy as np
   import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

2. Next, let's specify the magic command for displaying images in a notebook:

   %matplotlib inline

3. Now, we can load the image and display it using Matplotlib.

   Note

   Before proceeding, ensure that you can change the path to the images (highlighted) based on where the image is saved in your system.

   The code is as follows:

   # Load image
   img = cv2.imread("../data/lion.jpg")
   plt.imshow(img[:,:,::-1])
   plt.show()

   The output is as follows:

   Figure 1.42: Image that we are going to use in this activity

4. Next, let's display the image's shape:

   # Get image shape
   img.shape

   The output is (407, 640, 3).

5. Convert the image into HSV:

   # Convert image to HSV
   imgHSV = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
   plt.imshow(imgHSV[:,:,::-1])
   plt.show()

   The output is as follows...