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cvtColor RGB to HSV, different look???

asked 2014-03-29 08:08:39 -0600

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Hello, I would like to convert a stream from my webcam to HSV colorspace.

Therefore I used cvtColor in the following code:

int main()
{
VideoCapture cap(0);
if(!cap.isOpened())
{
cout << "Capture could not be opened succesfully" << endl;
return -1;
}
namedWindow("RGB");
namedWindow("HSV");

while(char(waitKey(1)) != 'q' && cap.isOpened())
{
Mat frame, frame_hsv;
cap >> frame;
cvtColor(frame, frame_hsv, CV_RGB2HSV);

imshow("RGB", frame);
imshow("HSV", frame_hsv);

}
return 0;
}

First I am wondering because if I change CV_RGB2HSV to CV_BGR2HSV there is no difference in the shown images.

In the attached file you can see the output.

Why are the colors in the new "HSV-image" wrong? And what can I do to solve this?

I thougt cvtColor would calculate the matching colors for the new color space.

Thank you :-)

RGBtoHSV.PNG

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answered 2014-05-03 20:43:56 -0600

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OpenCV doesn't record the colorspace of an image in the image itself, so imshow has no way of knowing what colorspace you are working in. So what is most likely happening is imshow() is taking the HSV values and interpreting them as RGB/BGR, which would produce some significantly different effect. That's my guess anyways.

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Thank you very much. This sounds logical :-)

Brixus gravatar imageBrixus ( 2014-07-05 08:14:01 -0600 )edit

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