March 22, 2018 by Nauman Shakir
Learn how to use your Raspberry Pi to alter images and videos with this basic image processing tutorial.
Image processing is the process of performing some mathematical functions and operations on an image, images or video. The output that we get after image processing is a set of parameters or some altered image, images or videos.
Due to the low price of the Raspberry Pi, it is being used for image processing and video processing in many projects.
Plug in all the components and open the Linux terminal in Raspbian and run the following commands:
Now we're ready to program the Raspberry Pi for image processing!
from imgproc import *
# open the webcam
my_camera = Camera(320, 240)
# grab an image from the camera
my_image = my_camera.grabImage()
# open a view, setting the view to the size of the captured image
my_view = Viewer(my_image.width, my_image.height, "Basic image processing")
# display the image on the screen
my_view.displayImage(my_image)
# wait for 5 seconds, so we can see the image
waitTime(5000)Now we are going to turn all red pixels in the image to blue. Write this snippet of code below the code shown in the section above.
# iterate over ever pixel in the image by iterating over each row and each column
for x in range(0, my_image.width):
for y in range(0, my_image.height):
# get the value of the current pixel
red, green, blue = my_image[x, y]
# check if the red intensity is greater than the green
if red > green:
# check if red is also more intense than blue
if red > blue:
# this pixel is predominantly red
# let's set it to blue
my_image[x, y] = 0, 0, 255You now know how to do basic image processing on your Raspberry Pi! For more details and functions, check out this Youtube tutorial:
