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OpenCV: Hue, Saturation and Value.

Here a simple OpenCV example of separation of a image into its hue, saturation and value channels.

#include 
#include 
#include 

int main( int argc, char **argv ){
    IplImage *img, *hsv, *hue, *sat, *val;
    int key = 0, depth;
    CvSize size;

    /* Load command line passed image, check it. */
    if (argc>1) {
        img = cvLoadImage(argv[1], CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR);
        if(!img){
            printf("Could not open image.");
            exit -1;
        }
        if(img->nChannels!=3){
            printf("We need color image!");
            exit -1;
        }
    } else {
        printf("Usage: %s VIDEO_FILE\n", argv[0]);
        return 1;
    }

    /* Create a hsv image with 3 channels and hue, sat e val with 1 channel.
       All with the same size */
    size = cvGetSize(img);
    depth = img->depth;
    hue = cvCreateImage(size, depth, 1);
    sat = cvCreateImage(size, depth, 1);
    val = cvCreateImage(size, depth, 1);
    hsv = cvCreateImage(size, depth, 3);
    cvZero(hue);
    cvZero(sat);
    cvZero(val);
    cvZero(hsv);

    /* Convert from Red-Green-Blue to Hue-Saturation-Value */
    cvCvtColor( img, hsv, CV_BGR2HSV );

    /* Split hue, saturation and value of hsv on them */
    cvSplit(hsv, hue, sat, val, 0);
    
    /* Create windows, display them, wait for a key */
    cvNamedWindow("original", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
    cvNamedWindow("hue", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
    cvNamedWindow("saturation", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
    cvNamedWindow("value", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);

    cvShowImage("original", img);
    cvShowImage("hue", hue);
    cvShowImage("saturation", sat);
    cvShowImage("value", val);

    cvWaitKey(0);

    /* Free memory and get out */
    cvDestroyWindow("original");
    cvDestroyWindow("hue");
    cvDestroyWindow("saturation");
    cvDestroyWindow("value");

    cvReleaseImage(&img);
    cvReleaseImage(&hsv);
    cvReleaseImage(&hue);
    cvReleaseImage(&sat);
    cvReleaseImage(&val);

    return 0;
}

Resized original image, photo by Robert Bradshaw at Wikimedia Commons.

Sunset Peter Iredale

Hue channel:

hue sunset Peter Iredale

Saturation channel:

saturation sunset Peter Iredale

Value channel:

value sunset Peter Iredale

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3 Comments

  1. bharath bharath

    I am trying to detect skin can u please help me how to merge hue ,Saturation,Cb,Cr channels in opencv.

  2. Deep Deep

    Hi Silveira,

    How can we alter hue, saturation and value saperately without doing it pixel by pixel ?

    Regards,
    D

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