code: def read_images(paths):
      images = []
      for path in paths:
          images.append(cv2.imread(path))
      return images
  
imports: from __future__ import absolute_import
  from __future__ import division
  import os
  import cv2
  import argparse
  import base64
  import paddlex
  from math import *
  import time, math, re
  import numpy
  import paddlehub
  from paddlehub.module.module import moduleinfo, runnable, serving
label_desc: Use image node_id 3 for calling a global function with example usage: read_images(paths) and returns: images