Converting an OpenCV Image to Black and White

Question

How do you convert a grayscale OpenCV image to black and white? I see a similar question has already been asked, but I\'m using OpenCV 2.3, and the proposed solution no long

Answer 1

For those doing video I cobbled the following based on @tsh :

import cv2 as cv
import numpy as np

def nothing(x):pass

cap = cv.VideoCapture(0)
cv.namedWindow('videoUI', cv.WINDOW_NORMAL)
cv.createTrackbar('T','videoUI',0,255,nothing)

while(True):
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    vid_gray = cv.cvtColor(frame, cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    thresh = cv.getTrackbarPos('T','videoUI');
    vid_bw = cv.threshold(vid_gray, thresh, 255, cv.THRESH_BINARY)[1]

    cv.imshow('videoUI',cv.flip(vid_bw,1))

    if cv.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

cap.release()
cv.destroyAllWindows()

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