On 14/09/18 19:04, tejaswi wrote:
Hello everyone,
I was looking to work with images in python. I saw two packages
related to this, Pillow and scipy.ndimage. I was wondering what
purposes each of these serve.
I've previously used matlab/octave's image processing facilities and
found them quite easy to work with, so is scipy the way to go in that
case.
Thank you,
Tejaswi D Prakash
Pillow is great for simple image processing. Converting between formats,
resizing, cropping, rotating. simple filters - that kind of thing. The
kind of thing you might otherwise do with GIMP, you might say.
For more in-depth image analysis, scipy.ndimage and scikit-image are
your friends. Obviously they work better with the numpy/scipy ecosystem.
And, as MRAB points out, there's also OpenCV, which is fantastic for
certain types of problems (have a look at the docs). For some fields
(e.g. astronomy) there are also more specialized packages that may help.
In short, if you images are pictures, have a look at Pillow. If your
images are data, have a look at scikit-image, scipy.ndimage, and maybe
more specialized packages like OpenCV or astropy.
-- Thomas
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
