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Giacomo Bonvini
Giacomo Bonvini

Reputation: 37

how to find occurrences of elements in a list of list in python

I have just started learning python.

I converted an image into a matrix of gray pixels (0=black, 255=white)

from PIL import Image
import numpy
import array

im = Image.open("elephant.jpg")                 
grayim = im.convert('L')                        

pixelmatrix = numpy.asarray(grayim)

If I

print pixelmatrix

I get something like:

pixelmatrix = [154 154 154 ..., 169 169 169]
              [153 153 153 ..., 166 166 166]
              [153 153 153 ..., 161 161 161]
              ..., 
              [151 130 107 ...,  51  85  75]
              [130 133 111 ...,  86  92  56]
              [ 91 127 119 ..., 102 139  66]]

That is what I'm looking for. Ok

What I want to do is evaluate the occurrence of one value, let's say 255.

I tried for cycles and .count method.

for x in range(0, lastrow):
    for y in range(0, lastcolumn):
        print sum(pixelmatrix[x,y]

They don't work and I cannot understand why. Could you help me?

Thanks a lot Ciao

Giacomo

Upvotes: 1

Views: 201

Answers (3)

Xukrao
Xukrao

Reputation: 8633

from PIL import Image
import numpy
import array

im = Image.open("elephant.jpg")                 
grayim = im.convert('L')                        

pixelmatrix = numpy.asarray(grayim)

no_occurrences = numpy.sum(pixelmatrix==255)
print(no_occurrences)

EDIT: removed redundant step in the code snippet and added print statement.

Upvotes: 2

Arya McCarthy
Arya McCarthy

Reputation: 8829

You can use sum.

def pixel_frequency(value, image):
    return (image == value).sum()

pixel_frequency(255, pixelmatrix)
# 137 (or something)

Upvotes: 3

DatHydroGuy
DatHydroGuy

Reputation: 1116

Assuming you're talking about an actual list of lists (there are some commas missing in your post which is why I'm saying this), then try:

numOccurrences = sum([row.count(255) for row in pixelmatrix])

Upvotes: 1

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