python imread code example

Example 1: finding the format of an image in cv2

cv2.imread('abalone.jpg', cv2.IMREAD_COLOR).dtype

Example 2: cv2 load image

import numpy as np
    import cv2
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    %matplotlib inline # if you are running this code in jupyter notebook

    img = cv2.imread('/path_to_image/opencv-logo.png',0) # reads image 'opencv-logo.png' as grayscale
    plt.imshow(img, cmap='gray')