Question

I have an RGB image. I want to convert it to numpy array. I did the following

im = cv.LoadImage("abc.tiff")
a = numpy.asarray(im)

It creates an array with no shape. I assume it is a iplimage object.

Answer 1

You can use newer OpenCV python interface (if I’m not mistaken it is available since OpenCV 2.2). It natively uses numpy arrays:

import cv2
im = cv2.imread("abc.tiff",mode='RGB')
print(type(im))

result:

<type 'numpy.ndarray'>