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Encoding and Decoding Images in OpenCV-Python with cv2.imencode and cv2.imdecode

OpenCV provides two complementary utilities for converting between raw byte streams and image matrices: cv2.imdecode: turns a byte buffer (e.g., data received over a network) into a decoded image array. cv2.imencode: compresses an image array into a specific file format and returns the encoded bytes...