Combining Two Images with OpenCV

For cases where your images happen to be the same size (which is a common case for displaying image processing results), you can use numpy's concatenate to simplify your code.

To stack vertically (img1 over img2):

vis = np.concatenate((img1, img2), axis=0)

To stack horizontally (img1 to the left of img2):

vis = np.concatenate((img1, img2), axis=1)

To verify:

import cv2
import numpy as np
img1 = cv2.imread('img1.png')
img2 = cv2.imread('img2.png')
vis = np.concatenate((img1, img2), axis=1)
cv2.imwrite('out.png', vis)

The out.png image will contain img1 on the left and img2 on the right.

For those who are looking to combine 2 color images into one, this is a slight mod on Andrey's answer which worked for me :

img1 = cv2.imread(imageFile1)
img2 = cv2.imread(imageFile2)

h1, w1 = img1.shape[:2]
h2, w2 = img2.shape[:2]

#create empty matrix
vis = np.zeros((max(h1, h2), w1+w2,3), np.uint8)

#combine 2 images
vis[:h1, :w1,:3] = img1
vis[:h2, w1:w1+w2,:3] = img2