pythonopencvpython-imaging-libraryimread

Using cv2.imread: "<built-in function imread> returned NULL without setting an error", as if it can't open the picture or get the data

This is the part of my code that gives the problem. It is supposed to count the amount of green pixels in a picture:

img = Image.open('path.tif')

BLACK_MIN = np.array([0, 20, 20], np.uint8)

BLACK_MAX = np.array([120, 255, 255], np.uint8)

imgg = cv2.imread(img, 1)

dst = cv2.inRange(imgg, BLACK_MIN, BLACK_MAX)

no_black = cv2.countNonZero(dst)

print('The number of black pixels is: ' + str(no_black))
Solution

  • You are passing a PIL image to imread but it expects a filepath (https://docs.opencv.org/2.4/modules/highgui/doc/reading_and_writing_images_and_video.html?highlight=imread#Mat%20imread(const%20string&%20filename,%20int%20flags)

    You should use:

    imgg = cv2.imread('path.tif', 1)