Title: Enhance Contrast Of Color Image
Slug: enhance_contrast_of_color_image
Summary: How to enhance the contrast of images using OpenCV in Python.
Date: 2017-09-11 12:00
Category: Machine Learning
Tags: Preprocessing Images
Authors: Chris Albon
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# Load image
import cv2
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
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# Load image
image_bgr = cv2.imread('images/plane.jpg')
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# Convert to YUV
image_yuv = cv2.cvtColor(image_bgr, cv2.COLOR_BGR2YUV)
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# Apply histogram equalization
image_yuv[:, :, 0] = cv2.equalizeHist(image_yuv[:, :, 0])
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# Convert to RGB
image_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(image_yuv, cv2.COLOR_YUV2RGB)
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# Show image
plt.imshow(image_rgb), plt.axis("off")
plt.show()