cvtColor and inRange in single pass? [closed]

asked 2017-06-26 11:03:58 -0600

prensing gravatar image

Hi, I am new to OpenCV, but have plenty of programming experience. I have played around with image detection based on color. Everyone's code does something like:

hsvFrame = cv2.cvtColor( frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV )
mask = cv2.inRange( hsvFrame, lowLimitHSV, highLimitHSV )

This does work, but seems inefficient. At least for my task (and others I saw on the web), the HSV frame is only needed to do the thresholding.

My question is: why is there no standard routine to combine cvtColor and inRange in a single pass? Has it been tried? Is it not efficient enough? Just trying to get an idea.

Thanks.

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how and why would your idea be more efficient ?

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2017-06-26 11:51:52 -0600 )edit

I am guessing that a single pass through the frame data is faster than 2 passes. Also, it certainly saves some memory, since you don't need to keep the hsvFrame data.

prensing gravatar imageprensing ( 2017-06-26 13:24:21 -0600 )edit
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stop guessing. full stop.

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2017-06-26 13:32:08 -0600 )edit

I am also looking for a way to combine these calls. Why wouldn't a single pass be faster berak?

bhj gravatar imagebhj ( 2017-12-18 23:05:51 -0600 )edit

again, forget that idea. putting it in a single call would not reduce the operations required, and both are needed seperate from each other.

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2017-12-19 02:57:23 -0600 )edit
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