Loading images in google colab

Question

My Jupyter Notebook has the following code to upload an image to Colab:

from google.colab import files
uploaded = files.upload()

I get prompted

Answer 1

You can an image on colab directly from internet using the command

!wget "copy paste the image address here"

check with!ls

Display the image using the code below:

import cv2
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

img = cv2.imread("Sample-image.jpg")
img_cvt=cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
plt.imshow(img_cvt)
plt.show()