load images

def LoadImages(self, image, img_size=416, half=False):
    img_size = img_size
    mode = 'images'
    half = half  # half precision fp16 images
    cap = None

    img0 = image  # BGR  
    img, *_ = letterbox(img0, new_shape=img_size)

    # Normalize RGB
    img = img[:, :, ::-1].transpose(2, 0, 1)  # BGR to RGB
    img = np.ascontiguousarray(img, dtype=np.float16 if half else np.float32)  # uint8 to fp16/fp32
    img /= 255.0  # 0 - 255 to 0.0 - 1.0

    # cv2.imwrite(path + '.letterbox.jpg', 255 * img.transpose((1, 2, 0))[:, :, ::-1])  # save letterbox image
    return img, img0