Extract external contour or silhouette of image in Python

Question

I want to extract the silhouette of an image, and I\'m trying to do it using the contour function of MatplotLib. This is my code:

from PIL import Image
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Answer 1

I would recommand using OpenCV for performance. It has a findContour functions accessible from python using the cv2 binding. This function can be set to return only the external contour.

You will have to threshold your image as well.