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Logical operations on images

OpenCV provides bitwise logical operation functions on images. We will take a look at functions that provide bitwise logical AND, OR, XOR (exclusive OR), and NOT (inversion) functionalities. These functions can be better demonstrated visually with grayscale images. I am going to use barcode images in horizontal and vertical orientations for demonstration. Look at the following code:

import cv2 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt img1 = cv2.imread('Barcode_Hor.png',0) img2 = cv2.imread('Barcode_Ver.png',0) not_out=cv2.bitwise_not(img1) and_out=cv2.bitwise_and(img1,img2) or_out=cv2.bitwise_or(img1,img2) xor_out=cv2.bitwise_xor(img1,img2) titles = ['Image 1','Image 2','Image 1 NOT','AND','OR','XOR'] images = [img1,img2,not_out,and_out,or_out,xor_out] ...