OpenCV 3 Computer Vision with Python Cookbook

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

1. Import all necessary modules:

import cv2import numpy as npimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt

2. Load an image and display it:

grey = cv2.imread('../data/Lena.png', 0)cv2.imshow('original grey', grey)cv2.waitKey()cv2.destroyAllWindows()

3. Compute a histogram function:

hist, bins = np.histogram(grey, 256, [0, 255])

4. Plot histogram and display it:

plt.fill(hist)plt.xlabel('pixel value')plt.show()