python imshow彩色,plt.imshow显示了IPython中灰度图像的彩色图像

I have the following RGB image imRGB

import cv2

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

#Loading the RGB image

imRGB = cv2.imread('*path*')

imRGB.shape

>>(128L, 128L, 3L)

#plotting

plt.imshow(imRGB)

I convert this to a grayscale image imGray

imGray = cv2.cvtColor(imRGB, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

imGray.shape

>>(128L, 128L)

#plotting

plt.imshow(imGray)

Question: Why does the grayscale image imGray is shown in color?

解决方案

imRGB was a 3D matrix (height x width x 3).

Now imGray is a 2D matrix in which there are no colors, only a "luminosity" value.

So matplotlib applied a colormap by default.

Read this page and try to apply a grayscale colormap or a different colormap, check the results.

plt.imshow(imGray, cmap="gray")

Use this page as reference for colormaps. Some colormap could not work, if it occurs try another colormap.