hi guys i am trying out PCA analysis using python.I have a set of jpeg(rgbcolor) images whose pixel data i need to extract and make a matrix .( rows =num of images and cols=num of pixels) For this i need to represent an image as an array. i was able to do this using java's BufferedImage as below
<javacode> int[] rgbdata = new int[width * height]; image.getRGB(0,0,width,height,rgbdata,0,width); doubles = new double[rgbdata.length]; int i; for ( i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) { doubles[i] = (double)(rgbdata[i]); } </javacode> this doubles[] now represent a single image's pixels then i can get a matrix of say 4 images ..(each of 4X3 size) <sampledata> images[][] rows=4,cols=12 [ [-4413029.0, -1.0463919E7,... -5201255.0] [-5399916.0, -9411231.0, ... -6583163.0] [-3886937.0, -1.0202292E7,... -6648444.0] [-5597295.0, -7901339.0,... -5989995.0] ] </sampledata> i can normalise the above matrix to zeromean and then find covariance matrix by images * transpose(images) my problem is how i can use PIL to do the same thing..if i extract imagedata using im.getdata() i will get <sampledata> [ [(188, 169, 155), (96, 85, 81),.. (176, 162, 153)] [(173, 154, 148), (112, 101, 97),.. (155, 140, 133)] [(196, 176, 167), (100, 83, 76), ... (154, 141, 132)] [(170, 151, 145), (135, 111, 101), ... (164, 153, 149)] ] </sampledata> i donot know how to find covariance matrix from such a matrix..it would'v been ideal if they were single values instead of tuples..i can't use greyscale images since the unput images are all rgb jpeg can someone suggest a solution? thanks dn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list