How do you directly overlay a scatter plot on top of a jpg image in matplotlib / Python?
The pyplot.scatter() function was tailor made for this reason: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt im = plt.imread(image_name) implot = plt.imshow(im) # put a blue dot at (10, 20) plt.scatter([10], [20]) # put a red dot, size 40, at 2 locations: plt.scatter(x=[30, 40], y=[50, 60], c=”r”, s=40) plt.show() See the documentation for more info.