Today’s blog post comes straight out of the PyImageSearch Gurus course. Inside PyImageSearch Gurus we have a community page (much like a combination of forums + Q&A + StackOverflow) where we discuss a variety of computer vision topics, ask questions,…

So we know that matplotlib is awesome for generating graphs and figures. But what if we wanted to display a simple RGB image? Can we do that with matplotlib? Of course! This blog post will show you how to display…

Before we dive into this post, let’s take a second and talk about Oscar, a dedicated PyImageSearch reader. He is just getting started in computer vision — and he’s taken the best possible route to mastering the subject: creating your…

So you’ve extracted color histograms from a set of images… But how are you going to compare them for similarity? You’ll need a distance function to handle that. But which one? How you choose? And how do you compare histograms…

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…

Take a second to look at the Jurassic Park movie poster above. What are the dominant colors? (i.e. the colors that are represented most in the image) Well, we see that the background is largely black. There is some red…

One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them; One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. The image search engine we are about to build is going to be so awesome, it could…

It’s…it’s a histogram. – Dr. Grant Okay. So maybe that isn’t the exact quote. But I think Dr. Grant would have been equally thrilled had he known the power of color histograms. And more importantly, when the power goes out,…