Loading images in google colab

Question

My Jupyter Notebook has the following code to upload an image to Colab:

from google.colab import files
uploaded = files.upload()

I get prompted

Answer 1

Hack to upload image file in colab!

https://colab.research.google.com/

Following code loads image (file(s)) from local drive to colab.

from google.colab import files
from io import BytesIO
from PIL import Image

uploaded = files.upload()
im = Image.open(BytesIO(uploaded['Image_file_name.jpg']))

View the image in google colab notebook using following command:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.imshow(im)
plt.show()