Python, OpenCV: Increasing image brightness without overflowing UINT8 array

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One idea would be to check before adding value whether the addition would result in an overflow by checking the difference between 255 and the current pixel value and checking if it’s within value. If it does, we won’t add value, we would directly set those at 255, otherwise we would do the addition. Now, this decision making could be eased up with a mask creation and would be –

mask = (255 - grey) < value

Then, feed this mask/boolean array to np.where to let it choose between 255 and grey+value based on the mask.

Thus, finally we would have the implementation as –

grey_new = np.where((255 - grey) < value,255,grey+value)

Sample run

Let’s use a small representative example to demonstrate the steps.

In [340]: grey
Out[340]: 
array([[125, 212, 104, 180, 244],
       [105,  26, 132, 145, 157],
       [126, 230, 225, 204,  91],
       [226, 181,  43, 122, 125]], dtype=uint8)

In [341]: value = 100

In [342]: grey + 100 # Bad results (e.g. look at (0,1))
Out[342]: 
array([[225,  56, 204,  24,  88],
       [205, 126, 232, 245,   1],
       [226,  74,  69,  48, 191],
       [ 70,  25, 143, 222, 225]], dtype=uint8)

In [343]: np.where((255 - grey) < 100,255,grey+value) # Expected results
Out[343]: 
array([[225, 255, 204, 255, 255],
       [205, 126, 232, 245, 255],
       [226, 255, 255, 255, 191],
       [255, 255, 143, 222, 225]], dtype=uint8)

Testing on sample image

Using the sample image posted in the question to give us arr and using value as 50, we would have –

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