Reputation: 133
I want to change the color basis of an image from RGB to something else. I have a matrix M that I want to apply to each pixel's RGB, which we can define as xij.
I am currently iterating over each pixel of the NumPy image and calculating Mxij manually. I can't even vectorize it over the rows, because the RGB is a 1x3 instead of a 3x1 array.
Is there a better way to do this? Maybe a function in OpenCV or NumPy?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 3837
Reputation: 32511
Can't remember the canonical way to do this (possibly avoiding the transposes) but this should work:
import numpy as np
M = np.random.random_sample((3, 3))
rgb = np.random.random_sample((5, 4, 3))
slow_result = np.zeros_like(rgb)
for i in range(rgb.shape[0]):
for j in range(rgb.shape[1]):
slow_result[i, j, :] = np.dot(M, rgb[i, j, :])
# faster method
rgb_reshaped = rgb.reshape((rgb.shape[0] * rgb.shape[1], rgb.shape[2]))
result = np.dot(M, rgb_reshaped.T).T.reshape(rgb.shape)
print np.allclose(slow_result, result)
If it's a transformation between standard colorspaces then you should use Scikit Image:
Upvotes: 2