Conversion of a movie to a series of images ¶

Conversion of a movie which is a kind of mp4 or avi to a series of images

A movie dataset is one of the unimaginable dataset to analyse, so this time, we try to convert a movie to a series of images.

Requirements ¶

• opencv-python 3.4.0.12
In [1]:

import cv2
import os


In this tutorial, we will use the First-Person Social Interactions Dataset
Alireza Fathi, Jessica K. Hodgins, James M. Rehg, Social Interactions: A First-Person Perspective, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012.
In this time, we’ll take a too much time to calculate if we use all of the data, so we’ll use 19th data of Michael, Day2 only.
In [2]:

filename = "Michael_Day2_019.avi"


Conversion and Write ¶

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video = cv2.VideoCapture(filename)
save_dir = "save_dir"
if not os.path.exists(save_dir):
os.mkdir(save_dir)
frame_count = int(video.get(7))
print("frame_count:{}".format(frame_count))
for i in range(frame_count):

frame_count:35391