In this tutorial, you will learn about color spaces in OpenCV, the cv2.cvtColor function, and the importance of lighting conditions/environments when building a computer vision and image processing pipeline. A dataset with images in various color spaces is useful to…

After our previous post on computing image colorfulness was published, Stephan, a PyImageSearch reader, left a comment on the tutorial asking if there was a method to compute the colorfulness of specific regions of an image (rather than the entire…

Today’s blog post is inspired by a question I received from a PyImageSearch reader on Twitter, @makingyouthink. Paraphrasing the tweets myself and @makingyouthink exchanged, the question was: Have you ever seen a Python implementation of Measuring colourfulness in natural images…

So last night I went out for a few drinks with my colleague, James, a fellow computer vision researcher who I have known for years. You see, James likes to party. He’s a “go hard” type of guy. He wanted…

About a month ago, I spent a morning down at the beach, walking along the sand, letting the crisp, cold water lap against my feet. It was tranquil, relaxing. I then took out my iPhone and snapped a few photos…