# PIL Image object which holds a transparent background png image.
pil_img = Image.open(ioFile).convert('RGBA')
pil_img.show()

# I use numpy to convert the pil_image into a numpy array
numpy_image = np.array(pil_img)

# I convert to a openCV2 image, notice the COLOR_RGB2BGR which means that
# the color is converted from RGBA to BGR format
opencvImage = cv2.cvtColor(numpy_image, cv2.COLOR_RGBA2BGR)
showImage(opencvImage)