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# USAGE # python grayscale_histogram.py --image ../images/beach.png # Import the necessary packages from matplotlib import pyplot as plt import argparse import cv2 # Construct the argument parser and parse the arguments ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() ap.add_argument("-i", "--image", required = True, help = "Path to the image") args = vars(ap.parse_args()) # Load the image, convert it to grayscale, and show it image = cv2.imread(args["image"]) image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) cv2.imshow("Original", image) # Construct a grayscale histogram hist = cv2.calcHist([image], [0], None, [256], [0, 256]) # Plot the histogram plt.figure() plt.title("Grayscale Histogram") plt.xlabel("Bins") plt.ylabel("# of Pixels") plt.plot(hist) plt.xlim([0, 256]) plt.show() cv2.waitKey(0)

When I run it, I have following error:

Snows-MacBook-Pro:code Mac$ python chapter-07/grayscale_histogram.py -i images/wave.png OpenCV Error: Assertion failed (step[dims-1] == (size_t)CV_ELEM_SIZE(flags)) in create, file /tmp/opencv-miY1tR/opencv-2.4.9/modules/core/src/matrix.cpp, line 236 Traceback (most recent call last): File "chapter-07/grayscale_histogram.py", line 21, in <module> hist = cv2.calcHist([image], [0], None, [256], [0, 256]) cv2.error: /tmp/opencv-miY1tR/opencv-2.4.9/modules/core/src/matrix.cpp:236: error: (-215) step[dims-1] == (size_t)CV_ELEM_SIZE(flags) in function create

I have installed openCV with

brew install opencv

I did reinstall openCV again but same problem is there.

I would suspect that there was some problem with compiling of openCV.
Maybe because of different compilers clang, gcc.

Any suggesting are appreciated.

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I got the same error when using another function in openCV. I also got the error using the code in your post. openCV 3.0.0 did not work either, it gave me another type of error.

What finally worked was installing openCV through Anaconda. It still uses openCV 2.4.8 so maybe that was the solution.

First I unlinked openCV in brew: "brew unlink opencv"

Then installed the Anaconda package: http://continuum.io/downloads#all

Afterwards install openCV: "conda install opencv"

Finally, update numpy: "conda update numpy"

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I will try it later. Is your OSX clean install or upgrade from previous versions ? My is upgrade from 10.6 to 10.7 10 10.8 and now 10.9. I have a hunch if I do clean install of 10.9 problem will go away. That is why I am asking.
I also needed to do pip uninstall numpy it look-like problem was in numpy not openCV. My version of bumpy was numpy==1.10.0.dev-cfa095a.
I also upgraded my OSX from 10.6 to 10.9, haven't done a clean install since I got it. I can't remember the numpy version that I was running though. I think I was using numpy 1.9.1 that I installed through pip. Did you get it to work now with openCV 2.4.9 or 3.0.0?
I did everything as you, so it was openCV 2.4.9.
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I also needed to do a pip uninstall numpy but also had to remove the numpy directories (specifically the f2py directories) in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/Cellar. After that I did a pip install numpy and it works ok.

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