I have a matrix in the type of a Numpy array. How would I write it to disk it as an image? Any format works (png, jpeg, bmp...). One important constraint is that PIL is not present.
An answer using PIL (just in case it's useful).
given a numpy array "A":
from PIL import Image
im = Image.fromarray(A)
im.save("your_file.jpeg")
you can replace "jpeg" with almost any format you want. More details about the formats here
This uses PIL, but maybe some might find it useful:
import scipy.misc
scipy.misc.imsave('outfile.jpg', image_array)
EDIT: The current scipy version started to normalize all images so that min(data) become black and max(data) become white. This is unwanted if the data should be exact grey levels or exact RGB channels. The solution:
import scipy.misc
scipy.misc.toimage(image_array, cmin=0.0, cmax=...).save('outfile.jpg')
With matplotlib:
import matplotlib.image
matplotlib.image.imsave('name.png', array)
Works with matplotlib 1.3.1, I don't know about lower version. From the docstring:
Arguments:
*fname*:
A string containing a path to a filename, or a Python file-like object.
If *format* is *None* and *fname* is a string, the output
format is deduced from the extension of the filename.
*arr*:
An MxN (luminance), MxNx3 (RGB) or MxNx4 (RGBA) array.
There's opencv for python (documentation here).
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = ... # Your image as a numpy array
cv2.imwrite("filename.png", img)
useful if you need to do more processing other than saving.
Pure Python (2 & 3), a snippet without 3rd party dependencies.
This function writes compressed, true-color (4 bytes per pixel) RGBA PNG's.
def write_png(buf, width, height):
""" buf: must be bytes or a bytearray in Python3.x,
a regular string in Python2.x.
"""
import zlib, struct
# reverse the vertical line order and add null bytes at the start
width_byte_4 = width * 4
raw_data = b''.join(
b'\x00' + buf[span:span + width_byte_4]
for span in range((height - 1) * width_byte_4, -1, - width_byte_4)
)
def png_pack(png_tag, data):
chunk_head = png_tag + data
return (struct.pack("!I", len(data)) +
chunk_head +
struct.pack("!I", 0xFFFFFFFF & zlib.crc32(chunk_head)))
return b''.join([
b'\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n',
png_pack(b'IHDR', struct.pack("!2I5B", width, height, 8, 6, 0, 0, 0)),
png_pack(b'IDAT', zlib.compress(raw_data, 9)),
png_pack(b'IEND', b'')])
... The data should be written directly to a file opened as binary, as in:
data = write_png(buf, 64, 64)
with open("my_image.png", 'wb') as fh:
fh.write(data)
Original source
See also: Rust Port from this question.
Example usage thanks to #Evgeni Sergeev: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21034111/432509
You can use PyPNG. It's a pure Python (no dependencies) open source PNG encoder/decoder and it supports writing NumPy arrays as images.
If you have matplotlib, you can do:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.imshow(matrix) #Needs to be in row,col order
plt.savefig(filename)
This will save the plot (not the images itself).
for saving a numpy array as image, U have several choices:
1) best of other: OpenCV
import cv2
cv2.imwrite('file name with extension(like .jpg)', numpy_array)
2) Matplotlib
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.imsave('file name with extension(like .jpg)', numpy_array)
3) PIL
from PIL import Image
image = Image.fromarray(numpy_array)
image.save('file name with extension(like .jpg)')
4) ...
scipy.misc gives deprecation warning about imsave function and suggests usage of imageio instead.
import imageio
imageio.imwrite('image_name.png', img)
You can use 'skimage' library in Python
Example:
from skimage.io import imsave
imsave('Path_to_your_folder/File_name.jpg',your_array)
Addendum to #ideasman42's answer:
def saveAsPNG(array, filename):
import struct
if any([len(row) != len(array[0]) for row in array]):
raise ValueError, "Array should have elements of equal size"
#First row becomes top row of image.
flat = []; map(flat.extend, reversed(array))
#Big-endian, unsigned 32-byte integer.
buf = b''.join([struct.pack('>I', ((0xffFFff & i32)<<8)|(i32>>24) )
for i32 in flat]) #Rotate from ARGB to RGBA.
data = write_png(buf, len(array[0]), len(array))
f = open(filename, 'wb')
f.write(data)
f.close()
So you can do:
saveAsPNG([[0xffFF0000, 0xffFFFF00],
[0xff00aa77, 0xff333333]], 'test_grid.png')
Producing test_grid.png:
(Transparency also works, by reducing the high byte from 0xff.)
For those looking for a direct fully working example:
from PIL import Image
import numpy
w,h = 200,100
img = numpy.zeros((h,w,3),dtype=numpy.uint8) # has to be unsigned bytes
img[:] = (0,0,255) # fill blue
x,y = 40,20
img[y:y+30, x:x+50] = (255,0,0) # 50x30 red box
Image.fromarray(img).convert("RGB").save("art.png") # don't need to convert
also, if you want high quality jpeg's
.save(file, subsampling=0, quality=100)
matplotlib svn has a new function to save images as just an image -- no axes etc. it's a very simple function to backport too, if you don't want to install svn (copied straight from image.py in matplotlib svn, removed the docstring for brevity):
def imsave(fname, arr, vmin=None, vmax=None, cmap=None, format=None, origin=None):
from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
fig = Figure(figsize=arr.shape[::-1], dpi=1, frameon=False)
canvas = FigureCanvas(fig)
fig.figimage(arr, cmap=cmap, vmin=vmin, vmax=vmax, origin=origin)
fig.savefig(fname, dpi=1, format=format)
Imageio is a Python library that provides an easy interface to read and write a wide range of image data, including animated images, video, volumetric data, and scientific formats. It is cross-platform, runs on Python 2.7 and 3.4+, and is easy to install.
This is example for grayscale image:
import numpy as np
import imageio
# data is numpy array with grayscale value for each pixel.
data = np.array([70,80,82,72,58,58,60,63,54,58,60,48,89,115,121,119])
# 16 pixels can be converted into square of 4x4 or 2x8 or 8x2
data = data.reshape((4, 4)).astype('uint8')
# save image
imageio.imwrite('pic.jpg', data)
The world probably doesn't need yet another package for writing a numpy array to a PNG file, but for those who can't get enough, I recently put up numpngw on github:
https://github.com/WarrenWeckesser/numpngw
and on pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpngw/
The only external dependency is numpy.
Here's the first example from the examples directory of the repository. The essential line is simply
write_png('example1.png', img)
where img is a numpy array. All the code before that line is import statements and code to create img.
import numpy as np
from numpngw import write_png
# Example 1
#
# Create an 8-bit RGB image.
img = np.zeros((80, 128, 3), dtype=np.uint8)
grad = np.linspace(0, 255, img.shape[1])
img[:16, :, :] = 127
img[16:32, :, 0] = grad
img[32:48, :, 1] = grad[::-1]
img[48:64, :, 2] = grad
img[64:, :, :] = 127
write_png('example1.png', img)
Here's the PNG file that it creates:
Also, I used numpngw.write_apng to create the animations in Voronoi diagram in Manhattan metric.
Assuming you want a grayscale image:
im = Image.new('L', (width, height))
im.putdata(an_array.flatten().tolist())
im.save("image.tiff")
If you happen to use [Py]Qt already, you may be interested in qimage2ndarray. Starting with version 1.4 (just released), PySide is supported as well, and there will be a tiny imsave(filename, array) function similar to scipy's, but using Qt instead of PIL. With 1.3, just use something like the following:
qImage = array2qimage(image, normalize = False) # create QImage from ndarray
success = qImage.save(filename) # use Qt's image IO functions for saving PNG/JPG/..
(Another advantage of 1.4 is that it is a pure python solution, which makes this even more lightweight.)
If you are working in python environment Spyder, then it cannot get more easier than to just right click the array in variable explorer, and then choose Show Image option.
This will ask you to save image to dsik, mostly in PNG format.
PIL library will not be needed in this case.
Use cv2.imwrite.
import cv2
assert mat.shape[2] == 1 or mat.shape[2] == 3, 'the third dim should be channel'
cv2.imwrite(path, mat) # note the form of data should be height - width - channel
In the folowing answer has the methods as proposed by #Nima Farhadi in time measurement.
The fastest is CV2 , but it's important to change colors order from RGB to BGR. The simples is matplotlib.
It's important to assure, that the array have unsigned integer format uint8/16/32.
Code:
#Matplotlib
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.imsave('c_plt.png', c.astype(np.uint8))
#PIL
from PIL import Image
image = Image.fromarray(c.astype(np.uint8))
image.save('c_pil.png')
#CV2, OpenCV
import cv2
cv2.imwrite('c_cv2.png', cv2.cvtColor(c, cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR))
With pygame
so this should work as I tested (you have to have pygame installed if you do not have pygame install it by using pip -> pip install pygame (that sometimes does not work so in that case you will have to download the wheel or sth but that you can look up on google)):
import pygame
pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((128, 128))
pygame.surfarray.blit_array(win, yourarray)
pygame.display.update()
pygame.image.save(win, 'yourfilename.png')
just remember to change display width and height according to your array
here is an example, run this code:
import pygame
from numpy import zeros
pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((128, 128))
striped = zeros((128, 128, 3))
striped[:] = (255, 0, 0)
striped[:, ::3] = (0, 255, 255)
pygame.surfarray.blit_array(win, striped)
pygame.display.update()
pygame.image.save(win, 'yourfilename.png')
I attach an simple routine to convert a npy to an image.
from PIL import Image
import matplotlib
img = np.load('flair1_slice75.npy')
matplotlib.image.imsave("G1_flair_75.jpeg", img)
You can use this code for converting your Npy data into an image:
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
data = np.load('/kaggle/input/objects-dataset/nmbu.npy')
im = Image.fromarray(data, 'RGB')
im.save("your_file.jpeg")
I have an RGB image. I want to convert it to numpy array. I did the following
im = cv.LoadImage("abc.tiff")
a = numpy.asarray(im)
It creates an array with no shape. I assume it is a iplimage object.
You can use newer OpenCV python interface (if I'm not mistaken it is available since OpenCV 2.2). It natively uses numpy arrays:
import cv2
im = cv2.imread("abc.tiff",mode='RGB')
print(type(im))
result:
<type 'numpy.ndarray'>
PIL (Python Imaging Library) and Numpy work well together.
I use the following functions.
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
def load_image( infilename ) :
img = Image.open( infilename )
img.load()
data = np.asarray( img, dtype="int32" )
return data
def save_image( npdata, outfilename ) :
img = Image.fromarray( np.asarray( np.clip(npdata,0,255), dtype="uint8"), "L" )
img.save( outfilename )
The 'Image.fromarray' is a little ugly because I clip incoming data to [0,255], convert to bytes, then create a grayscale image. I mostly work in gray.
An RGB image would be something like:
out_img = Image.fromarray( ycc_uint8, "RGB" )
out_img.save( "ycc.tif" )
You can also use matplotlib for this.
from matplotlib.image import imread
img = imread('abc.tiff')
print(type(img))
output:
<class 'numpy.ndarray'>
As of today, your best bet is to use:
img = cv2.imread(image_path) # reads an image in the BGR format
img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB) # BGR -> RGB
You'll see img will be a numpy array of type:
<class 'numpy.ndarray'>
Late answer, but I've come to prefer the imageio module to the other alternatives
import imageio
im = imageio.imread('abc.tiff')
Similar to cv2.imread(), it produces a numpy array by default, but in RGB form.
You need to use cv.LoadImageM instead of cv.LoadImage:
In [1]: import cv
In [2]: import numpy as np
In [3]: x = cv.LoadImageM('im.tif')
In [4]: im = np.asarray(x)
In [5]: im.shape
Out[5]: (487, 650, 3)
You can get numpy array of rgb image easily by using numpy and Image from PIL
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
im = Image.open('*image_name*') #These two lines
im_arr = np.array(im) #are all you need
plt.imshow(im_arr) #Just to verify that image array has been constructed properly
When using the answer from David Poole I get a SystemError with gray scale PNGs and maybe other files. My solution is:
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
img = Image.open( filename )
try:
data = np.asarray( img, dtype='uint8' )
except SystemError:
data = np.asarray( img.getdata(), dtype='uint8' )
Actually img.getdata() would work for all files, but it's slower, so I use it only when the other method fails.
load the image by using following syntax:-
from keras.preprocessing import image
X_test=image.load_img('four.png',target_size=(28,28),color_mode="grayscale"); #loading image and then convert it into grayscale and with it's target size
X_test=image.img_to_array(X_test); #convert image into array
OpenCV image format supports the numpy array interface. A helper function can be made to support either grayscale or color images. This means the BGR -> RGB conversion can be conveniently done with a numpy slice, not a full copy of image data.
Note: this is a stride trick, so modifying the output array will also change the OpenCV image data. If you want a copy, use .copy() method on the array!
import numpy as np
def img_as_array(im):
"""OpenCV's native format to a numpy array view"""
w, h, n = im.width, im.height, im.channels
modes = {1: "L", 3: "RGB", 4: "RGBA"}
if n not in modes:
raise Exception('unsupported number of channels: {0}'.format(n))
out = np.asarray(im)
if n != 1:
out = out[:, :, ::-1] # BGR -> RGB conversion
return out
I also adopted imageio, but I found the following machinery useful for pre- and post-processing:
import imageio
import numpy as np
def imload(*a, **k):
i = imageio.imread(*a, **k)
i = i.transpose((1, 0, 2)) # x and y are mixed up for some reason...
i = np.flip(i, 1) # make coordinate system right-handed!!!!!!
return i/255
def imsave(i, url, *a, **k):
# Original order of arguments was counterintuitive. It should
# read verbally "Save the image to the URL" — not "Save to the
# URL the image."
i = np.flip(i, 1)
i = i.transpose((1, 0, 2))
i *= 255
i = i.round()
i = np.maximum(i, 0)
i = np.minimum(i, 255)
i = np.asarray(i, dtype=np.uint8)
imageio.imwrite(url, i, *a, **k)
The rationale is that I am using numpy for image processing, not just image displaying. For this purpose, uint8s are awkward, so I convert to floating point values ranging from 0 to 1.
When saving images, I noticed I had to cut the out-of-range values myself, or else I ended up with a really gray output. (The gray output was the result of imageio compressing the full range, which was outside of [0, 256), to values that were inside the range.)
There were a couple other oddities, too, which I mentioned in the comments.
We can use following function of open CV2 to convert BGR 2 RGB format.
RBG_Image = cv2.cvtColor(Image, cv.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
Using Keras:
from keras.preprocessing import image
img = image.load_img('path_to_image', target_size=(300, 300))
x = image.img_to_array(img)
x = np.expand_dims(x, axis=0)
images = np.vstack([x])
Try timing the options to load an image to numpy array, they are quite similar. Go for plt.imread for simplicity and speed.
def time_this(function, times=100):
cum_time = 0
for t in range(times):
st = time.time()
function()
cum_time += time.time() - st
return cum_time / times
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def load_img_matplotlib(img_path):
return plt.imread(img_path)
import cv2
def load_img_cv2(img_path):
return cv2.cvtColor(cv2.imread(img_path), cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
def load_img_pil(img_path):
img = Image.open(img_path)
img.load()
return np.asarray( img, dtype="int32" )
if __name__=='__main__':
img_path = 'your_image_path'
for load_fn in [load_img_pil, load_img_cv2, load_img_matplotlib]:
print('-'*20)
print(time_this(lambda: load_fn(img_path)), 10000)
Result:
--------------------
0.0065201687812805175 10000 PIL, as in [the second answer][1]https://stackoverflow.com/a/7769424/16083419)
--------------------
0.0053211402893066405 10000 CV2
--------------------
0.005320906639099121 10000 matplotlib
You can try the following method. Here is a link to the docs.
tf.keras.preprocessing.image.img_to_array(img, data_format=None, dtype=None)
from PIL import Image
img_data = np.random.random(size=(100, 100, 3))
img = tf.keras.preprocessing.image.array_to_img(img_data)
array = tf.keras.preprocessing.image.img_to_array(img)