Explained cv2.imshow() function in Detail | Show image
OpenCV library has powerful function named as cv2.imshow(). Which shows the NumPy array in the form of an Image.
cv2.imshow() function takes any size of NumPy array and shows the image in the same size in the window. If the image resolution is more than a system screen resolution then it shows only those pixel which fits in the screen.
Ex: Image resolution is (2000,1000) (widht, height) and screen resolution is (1000,500). Then cv2.imshow() function shows only (1000,500) pixels of image not all. To solve this problem you can resize your image then show using cv2.imsho() function.
Syntax: cv2.imshow( windows_name, numpy_array)
windows_name: string value
numpy_array: 2d or 3d NumPy array
Show Numpy array as Image
import cv2 import numpy as np matx = np.zeros((200,200)) # numpy array with width =200, height=200 cv2.imshow("Zeros matx", matx) # show numpy array cv2.waitKey(0) # wait for ay key to exit window cv2.destroyAllWindows() # close all windows
Output:

Show Image
import cv2 img_path = "model.jpg" # image name img = cv2.imread(img_path) # read image and store in numpy array cv2.imshow("Model image", img) cv2.waitKey(0) cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Output:

Show same image in multiple windows
To show same image in multiple windows we need to use cv2.imshow() unction multiple time with unique windoes_name.
import cv2 img_path = "model.jpg" # image name img = cv2.imread(img_path) # Showing same image in 3 windows cv2.imshow("Model image 1", img) cv2.imshow("Model image 2 ", img) cv2.imshow("Model image 3", img) cv2.waitKey(0) cv2.destroyAllWindows()