How to fast change image brightness with python + OpenCV?

Question

I have a sequence of images. I need to average brightness of these images.

First example (very slow):

img = cv2.imread(\'test.jpg\')         


        

Answer 1

I know this shouldn't be so hard and there to adjust the brightness of an image. Also, there are already plenty of great answers. I would like to enhance the answer of @BillGrates, so it works on grayscale images and with decreasing the brightness: value = -255 creates a black image whereas value = 255 a white one.

def adjust_brightness(img, value):
    num_channels = 1 if len(img.shape) < 3 else 1 if img.shape[-1] == 1 else 3
    img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR) if num_channels == 1 else img
    hsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
    h, s, v = cv2.split(hsv)

    if value >= 0:
        lim = 255 - value
        v[v > lim] = 255
        v[v <= lim] += value
    else:
        value = int(-value)
        lim = 0 + value
        v[v < lim] = 0
        v[v >= lim] -= value

    final_hsv = cv2.merge((h, s, v))

    img = cv2.cvtColor(final_hsv, cv2.COLOR_HSV2BGR)
    img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) if num_channels == 1 else img
    return img