detect color space with openCV

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aneuryzm picture aneuryzm · Jan 23, 2010 · Viewed 37.8k times · Source

how can I see the color space of my image with openCV ?

I would like to be sure it is RGB, before to convert to another one using cvCvtColor() function

thanks

Answer

rcv picture rcv · Jan 26, 2010

Unfortunately, OpenCV doesn't provide any sort of indication as to the color space in the IplImage structure, so if you blindly pick up an IplImage from somewhere there is just no way to know how it was encoded. Furthermore, no algorithm can definitively tell you if an image should be interpreted as HSV vs. RGB - it's all just a bunch of bytes to the machine (should this be HSV or RGB?). I recommend you wrap your IplImages in another struct (or even a C++ class with templates!) to help you keep track of this information. If you're really desperate and you're dealing only with a certain type of images (outdoor scenes, offices, faces, etc.) you could try computing some statistics on your images (e.g. build histogram statistics for natural RGB images and some for natural HSV images), and then try to classify your totally unknown image by comparing which color space your image is closer to.

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