Invisible Cloak

Have you ever seen Harry Potter’s Invisible Cloak; Was it wonderful? Have you ever wanted to wear that cloak? If Yes!! then in this post, i build the same cloak which Harry Potter uses to become invisible. Yes, we are not building it in a real way but it is all about graphics trickery.

In this post, we will learn how to create our own ‘Invisibility Cloak’ using simple computer vision techniques in OpenCV.

R---------RED

G--------GREEN

B---------BLUE

Sure, colors like green or blue will also work fine with a little bit of changes in code.This technique is opposite to the Green Screening. In green screening, we remove background but here we will remove the foreground frame. So let’s start our code.

my choice is Red colour:

so don't wait lets begin the code

Step 1: Python Opencv Installation

For those who are new to this python and opencv , please follow this link

https://www.instructables.com/id/Opencv-and-Python-Installation-for-Windows-Mac/

Step 2: Python Code

the python code you can find here:

import cv2 
import numpy as np 
import time 
# replace the red pixels ( or undesired area ) with 
# background pixels to generate the invisibility feature. 
## 1. Hue: This channel encodes color information. Hue can be 
# thought of an angle where 0 degree corresponds to the red color, 
# 120 degrees corresponds to the green color, and 240 degrees 
# corresponds to the blue color. 
## 2. Saturation: This channel encodes the intensity/purity of color. 
# For example, pink is less saturated than red. 
## 3. Value: This channel encodes the brightness of color. 
# Shading and gloss components of an image appear in this 
# channel reading the videocapture video 
# in order to check the cv2 version 
print(cv2.__version__) 
# taking video.mp4 as input. 
# Make your path according to your needs 
#for recorded video
#capture_video = cv2.VideoCapture("video.mp4")  
#for live video from webcam
capture_video = cv2.VideoCapture(0)	
# give the camera to warm up 
time.sleep(1) 
count = 0
background = 0
# capturing the background in range of 60 
# you should have video that have some seconds 
# dedicated to background frame so that it 
# could easily save the background image 
for i in range(60): 
	return_val, background = capture_video.read() 
	if return_val == False : 
		continue
background = np.flip(background, axis = 1) # flipping of the frame 
# we are reading from video 
while (capture_video.isOpened()): 
	return_val, img = capture_video.read() 
	if not return_val : 
		break
	count = count + 1
	img = np.flip(img, axis = 1) 
	# convert the image - BGR to HSV 
	# as we focused on detection of red color 
	# converting BGR to HSV for better 
	# detection or you can convert it to gray 
	hsv = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV) 
	#-------------------------------------BLOCK----------------------------# 
	# ranges should be carefully chosen 
	# setting the lower and upper range for mask1 
	lower_red = np.array([100, 40, 40])	 
	upper_red = np.array([100, 255, 255]) 
	mask1 = cv2.inRange(hsv, lower_red, upper_red) 
	# setting the lower and upper range for mask2 
	lower_red = np.array([155, 40, 40]) 
	upper_red = np.array([180, 255, 255]) 
	mask2 = cv2.inRange(hsv, lower_red, upper_red) 
	#----------------------------------------------------------------------# 
	# the above block of code could be replaced with 
	# some other code depending upon the color of your cloth 
	mask1 = mask1 + mask2 
	# Refining the mask corresponding to the detected red color 
	mask1 = cv2.morphologyEx(mask1, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, np.ones((3, 3), 
										np.uint8), iterations = 2) 
	mask1 = cv2.dilate(mask1, np.ones((3, 3), np.uint8), iterations = 1) 
	mask2 = cv2.bitwise_not(mask1) 
	# Generating the final output 
	res1 = cv2.bitwise_and(background, background, mask = mask1) 
	res2 = cv2.bitwise_and(img, img, mask = mask2) 
	final_output = cv2.addWeighted(res1, 1, res2, 1, 0) 
	cv2.imshow("INVISIBLE MAN", final_output) 
	k = cv2.waitKey(10) 
	if k == 27: 
		break