Difference between plt.show and cv2.imshow?

Question

Why is there a difference in the output image when calling the same image using plt.show & cv2.imshow()?

Here is my code:

Answer 1

Because OpenCV stores images in BGR order instead of RGB.

Try plt.imshow(cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB))

See here for an example.

Answer 2

                            OpenCV - BGR and Matplotlib - RGB

OpenCV:

https://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/introduction/display_image/display_image.html

Matplotlib:

https://matplotlib.org/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.imshow.html