opencv.imshow will cause jupyter notebook crash

Question

I check other question on google or stackoverflow, they are talking about run cv2.imshow in script, but my code run in jupyter notebook.

Here is my configuration:

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Answer 1

The API documentation for cv2.waitKey() notes the following:

This function is the only method in HighGUI that can fetch and handle events, so it needs to be called periodically for normal event processing unless HighGUI is used within an environment that takes care of event processing.

So perhaps calling the function in an endless loop would make the window responsive? I haven't tested this, but maybe you would like to try the following:

import cv2

cvim2disp = cv2.imread('data/home.jpg')
cv2.imshow('img', cvim2disp)
while(True):
    k = cv2.waitKey(33)
    if k == -1:  # if no key was pressed, -1 is returned
        continue
    else:
        break
cv2.destroyWindow('img')