Choosing the correct upper and lower HSV boundaries for color detection with`cv::inRange` (OpenCV)

Question

I have an image of a coffee can with an orange lid position of which I want to find. Here is it .

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Answer 1

To find the HSV value of Green, try following commands in Python terminal

green = np.uint8([[[0,255,0 ]]])
hsv_green = cv2.cvtColor(green,cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
print hsv_green
[[[ 60 255 255]]]