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Converting Color Images to Grayscale but shape of the image stays identical

I've converted some images from RGB to Grayscale for ML purpose.
However the shape of the converted grayscale image is still 3, the same as the color image.
The code for the Conversion:
from PIL import Image
img = Image.open('path/to/color/image')
imgGray = img.convert('L')
imgGray.save('path/to/grayscale/image')
The code to check the shape of the images:
import cv2
im_color = cv2.imread('path/to/color/image')
print(im_color.shape)
im_gray2 = cv2.imread('path/to/grayscale/image')
print(im_gray2.shape)

You did
im_gray2 = cv2.imread('path/to/grayscale/image')
OpenCV does not inspect colorness of image - it does assume image is color and desired output is BGR 8-bit format. You need to inform OpenCV you want output to be grayscale (2D intensity array) as follows
im_gray2 = cv2.imread('path/to/grayscale/image', cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)
If you want to know more about reading images read OpenCV: Getting Started with Images

cv.imread, without any flags, will always convert any image content to BGR, 8 bits per channel.
If you want any image file, grayscale or color, to be read as grayscale, you can pass the cv.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE flag.
If you want to read the file as it really is, then you need to use cv.IMREAD_UNCHANGED.
im_color = cv2.imread('path/to/color/image', cv2.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)
print(im_color.shape)
im_gray2 = cv2.imread('path/to/grayscale/image', cv2.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)
print(im_gray2.shape)

What formula is used by PIL to convert greyscale to RGB?

I have a greyscale image that, as a numpy array, has a maximal value of 91, but if it is first converted from grayscale to RGB, its maximal value (across all channels) is 255. What formula is being used here? When viewing the images using im.show() they look identical. I checked the PIL source code for 'convert' (link) but it doesn't explicitly state how a greyscale image is converted to RGB.
I run the following:
im = PIL.Image.open(path_to_greyscale_image)
im_max_grey = max(np.asarray(im).flatten())
im = im.convert('RGB')
im_max_rgb = max(np.asarray(im).flatten())

Why does resizing images end up changing the channels as well?

so I have this code in python using TensorFlow which opens an image and resizes it:
def parse_image(filename):
label = filename
image = tf.io.read_file(path+'/'+filename)
print(image.shape)
image = tf.image.decode_png(image)
image = tf.image.convert_image_dtype(image, tf.float32)
image = tf.image.resize(image, [340, 340])
print(image.shape)
return image, label
When I open a test grayscale image using OpenCV:
img = cv2.imread(path+"/test.png")
print(img.shape) #returns (2133,3219,3)
But when I call the above function on the same image:
image, label = parse_image('test.png')
print(image.shape) #returns (340,340,1)
I know the 340 x 340 is the width and height I just set but why did the channels change? I'm trying to calculate the structural similarity but the test image and the image I want to compare have different channels which raises an error. The worst part is, it's this specific test image. Other grayscale images work fine.

Resizing JPG using PIL.resize gives a completely black image

I'm using PIL to resize a JPG. I'm expecting the same image, resized as output, but instead I get a correctly sized black box. The new image file is completely devoid of any information, just an empty file. Here is an excerpt for my script:
basewidth = 300
img = Image.open(path_to_image)
wpercent = (basewidth/float(img.size[0]))
hsize = int((float(img.size[1])*float(wpercent)))
img = img.resize((basewidth,hsize))
img.save(dir + "/the_image.jpg")
I've tried resizing with Image.LANCZOS as the second argument, (defaults to Image.NEAREST with 1 argument), but it didn't make a difference. I'm running Python3 on Ubunutu 16.04. Any ideas on why the image file is empty?

I also encountered the same issue when trying to resize an image with transparent background. The "resize" works after I add a white background to the image.
Code to add a white background then resize the image:
from PIL import Image
im = Image.open("path/to/img")
if im.mode == 'RGBA':
alpha = im.split()[3]
bgmask = alpha.point(lambda x: 255-x)
im = im.convert('RGB')
im.paste((255,255,255), None, bgmask)
im = im.resize((new_width, new_height), Image.ANTIALIAS)
ref:
Other's code for making thumbnail
Python: Image resizing: keep proportion - add white background

The simplest way to get to the bottom of this is to post your image! Failing that, we can check the various aspects of your image.
So, import Numpy and PIL, open your image and convert it to a Numpy ndarray, you can then inspect its characteristics:
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
# Open image
img = Image.open('unhappy.jpg')
# Convert to Numpy Array
n = np.array(img)
Now you can print and inspect the following things:
n.shape # we are expecting something like (1580, 1725, 3)
n.dtype # we expect dtype('uint8')
n.max() # if there's white in the image, we expect 255
n.min() # if there's black in the image, we expect 0
n.mean() # we expect some value between 50-200 for most images

Python | cv2.imshow() loading arrays as BGR?

I have recorded some data as npy file. And I tried to diplay the image (data[0]) to check if it makes sense with the following code
import numpy as np
import cv2
train_data = np.load('c:/data/train_data.npy')
for data in train_data:
output = data[1]
# only take the height, width and channels of the 4 dimensional array
image = data[0][0, :, :, :]
# image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
cv2.imshow('test', image)
print('output {}'.format(output))
if cv2.waitKey(25) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
break
But if I display the images without the line image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB) the images seem to be BGR based. If I comment this line into the code the images are displayed correctly.
My question: Does this observation imply that the image array is already in BGR format? Or does this imply that cv2.imshow() does by
default interprete the array as BGR array?

Matplotlib and Numpy read images into RGB and processes them as RGB. OpenCV reads images into BGR and processes them as BGR. Either system recognizes a range of input types, has ways to convert between color spaces of almost any type, and offers support of a variety of image processing tasks.
This gives three different ways to load an image (plt.imread(), ndimage.imread() and cv2.imread()), two systems for processing the data (Numpy and CV2), and two ways to display the image (plt.imshow() and cv2.imshow()), and really, there is a third way to display the image using pyplot, if you want to treat the image as numerical data in 2-d plus another dimension for each color.
Here is some simple code to demonstrate some of this.
#!/usr/bin/python
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.ndimage import imread
import numpy as np
import cv2
img = imread('index.jpg')
print( "img data type: %s shape %s"%( type(img), str( img.shape) ) )
plt.imshow( img )
plt.title( 'pyplot as read' )
plt.savefig( 'index.plt.raw.jpg' )
cv2.imshow('cv2, read by numpy', img)
cv2.imwrite('index.cv2.raw.jpg',img)
img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
cv2.imshow('after conversion', img)
cv2.imwrite('index.cv2.bgr2rgb.jpg',img)
This generates the following line of text, and the following three example image files.
img data type: <type 'numpy.ndarray'> shape (225, 225, 3)
The correct image has red as the upper circle. We read the image into a numpy array, using ndimage.imread(), and show it with Pyplot's imshow() and get the correct image. We then show it with cv2.imshow() and we see that the red channel is interpreted as the blue channel and vice versa. Then we convert the colorspace and we see that cv2.imshow() now interprets the result correctly.
plt.imshow(), as read by ndimage():
cv2.imshow(), the image as read by ndimage:
cv2.imshow(), after converting from RGB to BGR: