OpenCV NoneType object has no attribute shape

Question

Hello I'm working on Raspberry Pi with OpenCV. I want to try a tutorial which is ball tracking in link http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/09/14/ball-tracking-with-opencv/

But when I compile it, i get an error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'shape'.

What should I do?

Answer 1

It means that somewhere a function which should return a image just returned None and therefore has no shape attribute. Try "print img" to check if your image is None or an actual numpy object.

Answer 2

I faced the same problem today, please check for the path of the image as mentioned by cybseccrypt. After imread, try printing the image and see. If you get a value, it means the file is open.

Code:

img_src = cv2.imread('/home/deepak/python-workout/box2.jpg',0) print img_src

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

You probably get the error because your video path may be wrong in a way. Be sure your path is completely correct.

Answer 4

try to handle the error, its an attribute error given by OpenCV

try:
    img.shape
    print("checked for shape".format(img.shape))
except AttributeError:
    print("shape not found")
    #code to move to next frame

Answer 5

This is because the path of image is wrong or the name of image you write is incorrect .

how to check? first try to print the image using print(img) if it prints 'None' that means you have given wrong image path correct that path and try again.

Answer 6

I just meet a same problem. I solve it by updating the newest version of OpenCV. It works well with me. Hope it is also ok with you.

Answer 7

Hope this helps anyone facing same issue

To know exactly where has occurred, since the running program doesn't mention it as a error with line number

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'shape'

Make sure to add assert after loading the image/frame

For image

image = cv2.imread('myimage.png')
assert not isinstance(image,type(None)), 'image not found'

For video

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

    while(cap.isOpened()):

        # Capture frame-by-frame
        ret, frame = cap.read()
        if ret:
            assert not isinstance(frame,type(None)), 'frame not found'

Helped me solve a similar issue, in a long script

Answer 8

I work with artificially created images,i.e. I create them by myself and then train a neural network on them to perform a certain task. So, I created these images, saved them, but when I tried to open them ( with cv2.imread(...)), I got this error.It turned out that when saving artificially created images you need to add dtype=np.uint8. That resolved the issue for me!