Examples of how to import (load) an image in python:
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Import an image using matplotlib
To import an image in python, one solution is to use matplotlib:
from matplotlib import imageimg = image.imread("eiffel-tower.jpeg")
Note:
print( type(img) )print( img.shape )
returns:
<class 'numpy.ndarray'>
and
(1280, 850, 3)
3 corresponds to RGB.
It is then possible to plot the image using imshow from matplotlib
plt.imshow(img)plt.show()
Import an image using Pillow
Another solution is to use Pillow
from PIL import Imageimg= Image.open("eiffel-tower.jpeg")
Note that here
type(img)
is not a numpy array:
PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile
However it is always possible to plot the image using imshow
plt.imshow(img)plt.show()
to convert img to a numpy array
import numpy as npimg = np.asarray(img)
