Creating Custom Image Filters With Opencv

Author(s): Parth Mahakal

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A variety of different artistic, and stylistic, optical image-capture methods are offered by this group of filters. The Thermal filter, for example, will convert images into heat maps,” while the Cartoon filter offers vivid images that look a good deal as those might have been produced for a comic book. The closest one can have to natural colors-and scenes of beach and nature-comes from the VSCO filter. A less industrial feel could certainly be given a pretty heavy investment in that Instagram app filter. Take this simple grayscale and convert it into color images. It would be one of the grayscale filters. Lastly, let us consider the Oil Painting filter, which OpenCV implements by means of a stylization technique that creates a textured effect that looks like an oil painting. The user can easily use them through OpenCV and Python with just a few lines of code to enhance their images

Thermal imaging is ideal for producing images at night or in the presence of some obscuration, such as light fog, rain, or smoke. For example, forward-looking IR or FLIR cameras are used to provide night… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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