How to Resize an Image with Opencv2.0 and Python2.6

Question

I want to use OpenCV2.0 and Python2.6 to show resized images. I used and adopted this example but unfortunately, this code is for OpenCV2.1 and does not seem to be working on 2.0. Here my code:

import os, glob
import cv

ulpath = "exampleshq/"

for infile in glob.glob( os.path.join(ulpath, "*.jpg") ):
    im = cv.LoadImage(infile)
    thumbnail = cv.CreateMat(  cv.CV_8UC3)
    cv.Resize(im, thumbnail)
    cv.NamedWindow(infile)
    cv.ShowImage(infile, thumbnail)
    cv.WaitKey(0)
    cv.DestroyWindow(name)

Since I cannot use

cv.LoadImageM

I used

cv.LoadImage

instead, which was no problem in other applications. Nevertheless, cv.iplimage has no attribute rows, cols or size. Can anyone give me a hint, how to solve this problem?

Accepted Answer

If you wish to use CV2, you need to use the resize function.

For example, this will resize both axes by half:

small = cv2.resize(image, (0,0), fx=0.5, fy=0.5)

and this will resize the image to have 100 cols (width) and 50 rows (height):

resized_image = cv2.resize(image, (100, 50))

Another option is to use scipy module, by using:

small = scipy.misc.imresize(image, 0.5)

There are obviously more options you can read in the documentation of those functions (cv2.resize, scipy.misc.imresize).

Update:
According to the SciPy documentation:

imresize is deprecated in SciPy 1.0.0, and will be removed in 1.2.0.
Use skimage.transform.resize instead.

Note that if you're looking to resize by a factor, you may actually want skimage.transform.rescale.

Answer 2

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There are two ways to resize an image. The new size can be specified:

Manually;

height, width = src.shape[:2]

dst = cv2.resize(src, (2*width, 2*height), interpolation = cv2.INTER_CUBIC)
By a scaling factor.

dst = cv2.resize(src, None, fx = 2, fy = 2, interpolation = cv2.INTER_CUBIC), where fx is the scaling factor along the horizontal axis and fy along the vertical axis.

To shrink an image, it will generally look best with INTER_AREA interpolation, whereas to enlarge an image, it will generally look best with INTER_CUBIC (slow) or INTER_LINEAR (faster but still looks OK).

How to Resize an Image with Opencv2.0 and Python2.6

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