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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Image scaling


Image scaling is used to modify the dimensions of the input image based on requirements. Three types of scaling operators are commonly used in OpenCV, and they are cubic, area, and linear interpolations.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new Python file and import the following packages:
# Scaling (Resizing) Images - Cubic, Area, Linear Interpolations 
# Interpolation is a method of estimating values between known data points  
# Import Computer Vision package - cv2 
import cv2 
# Import Numerical Python package - numpy as np 
import numpy as np 
  1. Read the image using the built-in imread function:
image = cv2.imread('image_3.jpg') 
  1. Display the original image using the built-in imshow function:
cv2.imshow("Original", image) 
  1. Wait until any key is pressed:
cv2.waitKey() 
  1. Adjust the image size based on the operator's command:
# cv2.resize(image, output image size, x scale, y scale, interpolation) 
  1. Adjust the image size using cubic interpolation:
# Scaling using cubic interpolation 
scaling_cubic = cv2...