Read a base64 encoded image from memory using OpenCv python library

Question

I\'m working on an app that to do some facial recognition from a webcam stream. I get base64 encoded data uri\'s of the canvas and want to use it to do something like this:<

Answer 1

You can just use both cv2 and pillow like this:

import base64
from PIL import Image
import cv2
from StringIO import StringIO
import numpy as np

def readb64(base64_string):
    sbuf = StringIO()
    sbuf.write(base64.b64decode(base64_string))
    pimg = Image.open(sbuf)
    return cv2.cvtColor(np.array(pimg), cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)

cvimg = readb64('R0lGODlhEAAQAMQAAORHHOVSKudfOulrSOp3WOyDZu6QdvCchPGolfO0o/XBs/fNwfjZ0frl3/zy7////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAkAABAALAAAAAAQABAAAAVVICSOZGlCQAosJ6mu7fiyZeKqNKToQGDsM8hBADgUXoGAiqhSvp5QAnQKGIgUhwFUYLCVDFCrKUE1lBavAViFIDlTImbKC5Gm2hB0SlBCBMQiB0UjIQA7')
cv2.imshow(cvimg)