from multiprocessing import Pool import cv2 import sys from timeit import default_timer as timer THRESH_METHOD = cv2.ADAPTIVE_THRESH_GAUSSIAN_C INPUT_PATH = 'input/large_input/' OUTPUT_PATH = 'output/large_output/' n = 20 names = ['ship_%i_%i.jpg' % (i, j) for i in range(n) for j in range(n)] def process_threshold(im, output_name, thresh_method): gray_im = cv2.cvtColor(im, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) thresh_im = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(gray_im, 255, thresh_method, cv2.THRESH_BINARY, 11, 2) cv2.imwrite(OUTPUT_PATH + output_name, thresh_im) if __name__ == '__main__': for n_processes in range(1, 7): start = timer() with Pool(n_processes) as p: p.starmap(process_threshold, [( cv2.imread(INPUT_PATH + name), name, THRESH_METHOD ) for name in names]) print('Took %.4f seconds with %i process(es).' % (timer() - start, n_processes)) print('Done.')