Pixelate Roi Bounding Box And Overlay It On Original Image Using Opencv

Lets make it straightforward. I have private project to block or pixelate image using boundary box in open-cv, something like censoring image, inspired from this paper: https://www

Solution 1:

A simple method is to extract the ROI using Numpy slicing, pixelate, then paste it back into the original image. I will be using the pixelation technique found in how to pixelate image using OpenCV in Python?. Here's a simple example:

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Input image and ROI to be extracted

Extracted ROI

Pixelated ROI

Result

Code

import cv2

defpixelate(image):
    # Get input size
    height, width, _ = image.shape

    # Desired "pixelated" size
    h, w = (16, 16)

    # Resize image to "pixelated" size
    temp = cv2.resize(image, (w, h), interpolation=cv2.INTER_LINEAR)

    # Initialize output imagereturn cv2.resize(temp, (width, height), interpolation=cv2.INTER_NEAREST)

# Load image
image = cv2.imread('1.png')

# ROI bounding box coordinates
x,y,w,h = 122,98,283,240# Extract ROI
ROI = image[y:y+h, x:x+w]

# Pixelate ROI
pixelated_ROI = pixelate(ROI)

# Paste pixelated ROI back into original image
image[y:y+h, x:x+w] = pixelated_ROI

cv2.imshow('pixelated_ROI', pixelated_ROI)
cv2.imshow('image', image)
cv2.waitKey()

Note: The ROI bounding box coordinates were found by using the script in how to get ROI Bounding Box Coordinates without Guess & Check. For your case, I will assume that you already have the x,y,w,h bounding box coordinates obtained by cv2.boundingRect.