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Image Analysis in Python with SciPy and Scikit-Image
Presented by
Stéfan van der Walt [email protected]
Joshua Warner [email protected]
Steven Silvester [email protected]
This tutorial can be found online at https://github.com/scikit-image/skimage-tutorials
Please launch the IPython notebook from the root of the repository.
From telescopes to satellite cameras to electron microscopes, scientists are producing more images than they can manually inspect. This tutorial will introduce automated image analysis using the "images as NumPy arrays" abstraction, run through various fundamental image analysis operations (filters, morphology, segmentation), and then focus on solving real-world problems through interactive demos.
Image analysis is central to a boggling number of scientific endeavors. Google needs it for their self-driving cars and to match satellite imagery and mapping data. Neuroscientists need it to understand the brain. NASA needs it to map asteroids and save the human race. It is, however, a relatively underdeveloped area of scientific computing.
The goal is for attendees to leave the tutorial confident of their ability to extract information from images in Python.
Prerequisites
All of the below packages, including the non-Python ones, can be found in the Anaconda Python distribution, which can be obtained for free. Alternatively, pip install [packagename]
should work.
Required packages
scikit-image (0.11 or higher)
Required for scikit-image:
Python (>=2.6 required, 3.4 recommended)
numpy (>=1.6 required, 1.7 recommended)
scipy (>=0.10 required, 0.13 recommended)
Required for image reading and viewing:
matplotlib (>=1.1.0 required, 1.2 recommended)
Example images
scikit-image ships with some example images in skimage.data
. For this tutorial, we will additionally make use of images included in the skimage-tutorials/images
folder. If you're reading this on your computer, you already have these images downloaded.
Introduction
Subpackages, see
help(skimage)
The relationship of skimage with the Scientific Python eco-system
numpy (with skimage as the image processing layer)
scipy (in combination with ndimage)
sklearn (machine learning + feature extraction)
opencv for speed (e.g. in a factory setting)
novice (for teaching)
Schedule
08:00--09:00 (Stéfan)
09:00--09:10 Break
09:15--10:15 (Steven)
10:15--10:25 Snack break (snacks close at 10:30)
10:30--11:25 (Josh)
11:30--12:00 (All)
Choose your own adventure!
Warping -- Mona Lisa de-warping competition inside!
Hands-on exercises -- the best brain teasers from StackOverflow
Even more lectures here and here.
Further questions?
Feel free to grab hold of us during the conference, at the BoF session, or at the demo table!
Or meet the scikit-image team on <img src="https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg"/ style="display: inline">
Other ways to stay in touch
Follow the project's progress on GitHub.
Ask the team questions on the mailing list.
If you find it useful: please cite our paper!