How can I read an image from an Internet URL in Python cv2, scikit image and mahotas?
Since a cv2 image is not a string (save a Unicode one, yucc), but a NumPy array, – use cv2 and NumPy to achieve it: import cv2 import urllib import numpy as np req = urllib.urlopen(‘http://answers.opencv.org/upfiles/logo_2.png’) arr = np.asarray(bytearray(req.read()), dtype=np.uint8) img = cv2.imdecode(arr, -1) # ‘Load it as it is’ cv2.imshow(‘lalala’, img) if cv2.waitKey() & … Read more