How to crop an image in OpenCV using Python

Question

How can I crop images, like I\'ve done before in PIL, using OpenCV.

Working example on PIL

im = Image.open(\'0.png\').convert(\'L\')
im = im.crop((1         


        

Answer 1

Alternatively, you could use tensorflow for the cropping and openCV for making an array from the image.

import cv2
img = cv2.imread('YOURIMAGE.png')

Now img is a (imageheight, imagewidth, 3) shape array. Crop the array with tensorflow:

import tensorflow as tf
offset_height=0
offset_width=0
target_height=500
target_width=500
x = tf.image.crop_to_bounding_box(
    img, offset_height, offset_width, target_height, target_width
)

Reassemble the image with tf.keras, so we can look at it if it worked:

tf.keras.preprocessing.image.array_to_img(
    x, data_format=None, scale=True, dtype=None
)

This prints out the pic in a notebook (tested in Google Colab).

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The whole code together:

import cv2
img = cv2.imread('YOURIMAGE.png')

import tensorflow as tf
offset_height=0
offset_width=0
target_height=500
target_width=500
x = tf.image.crop_to_bounding_box(
    img, offset_height, offset_width, target_height, target_width
)

tf.keras.preprocessing.image.array_to_img(
    x, data_format=None, scale=True, dtype=None
)