I was wondering if I am going about this the right way, or if there is a way that is much more efficient.
I am trying to look for an image inside of a video, like on every single frame of the video this image might be contained somewhere inside of it (its not the full size frame, just a small one).
Currently pulling the video into pictures as such:
import cv2
vidcap = cv2.VideoCapture('My_Video.mp4')
success,image = vidcap.read()
count = 0
success = True
while success:
success,image = vidcap.read()
print ('Read a new frame: ', success)
cv2.imwrite("frame%d.jpg" % count, image) # save frame as JPEG file
count += 1
Then looping through them all as such:
import cv2
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
img_rgb = cv2.imread('frame1.png')
img_gray = cv2.cvtColor(img_rgb, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
template = cv2.imread('small_icon_I_am_looking_for.png',0)
w, h = template.shape[::-1]
res = cv2.matchTemplate(img_gray,template,cv2.TM_CCOEFF_NORMED)
threshold = 0.8
loc = np.where( res >= threshold)
for pt in zip(*loc[::-1]):
cv2.rectangle(img_rgb, pt, (pt[0] + w, pt[1] + h), (0,0,255), 2)
cv2.imwrite('res.png',img_rgb)
Is there a way to perhaps skip the saving of the pictures? I am doing this across thousands of hours of video, and saving and deleting every frame I feel will use a ton of time that might not be needed. Any ideas how I can search for this without needing to save the picture each time? This is an example of what I mean, say there was a video of super mario being played, it looks for this coin:
and detects it as such:
This currently works, but just looking for a better way.