CSE107-Lab 2 Simple Image Manipulations in Python Solved

The goal of this lab is to make sure you are able to read and write images, convert an image from color to grayscale, perform simple operations like rotating an image 90 degrees both clockwise and counterclockwise, create a function that computes the inverse of an image, and prepare a single PDF to submit as your lab report.

 

The lab consists of three tasks.

See Task_example.py for an example Python file that creates a new image which is the “Beginning.jpg” image cropped by 20 pixels along each edge. This example file demonstrates a number of things that can be useful for the tasks below such as reading an image from a file, creating a grayscale image from a color one, creating a numpy matrix with the pixel values from an image, creating a blank numpy matrix and changing its values, and creating an image from a numpy matrix which contain its pixel values.

 

 

Task 1: Computing the maximum value of an image. Rotating an image. 

Create the Python file Task1.py to do the following:

•       Read the image “Beginnings.jpg”.

•       Display the image on the screen.

•       Convert the image from color to grayscale.

•       Display the image on the screen again.

•       Create a numpy matrix that has the pixel values from the image.

•       Use nested for loops to compute the maximum pixel value in the numpy matrix and print this value out to the terminal. Note, you cannot use any built-in functions to compute the maximum—you must loop through the pixel values.

•       Create a new numpy matrix which is the original matrix rotated by 90 degrees counterclockwise. The Beginnings grayscale image should have dimensions 800 (rows) x 533 (columns). Your new matrix should have dimensions 533 x 800 (but don’t hardcode these values—use the number of rows and columns of the Beginnings grayscale image).

Steps to do this:

o    Create a new blank numpy matrix.

o    Use nested for loops to copy the pixel values from the original matrix image to the counterclockwise rotated one.

•       Create an image from the rotated matrix.

•       Display the counterclockwise rotated image on the screen.

•       Write the counterclockwise rotated image to a file.

•       Create a new numpy matrix which is the original matrix rotated by 90 degrees clockwise. (Follow similar substeps as above.)

•       Create an image from the rotated matrix.

•       Display the clockwise rotated image on the screen.

•       Write the clockwise rotated image to a file.

•       Compute and print the maximum pixel value of the clockwise rotated image. Again, you must compute the maximum value yourself using nested for loops.

 

Questions for task 1:

1.       What is the maximum pixel value of your grayscale Beginnings image?

2.       What is the maximum pixel value of your clockwise rotated grayscale image?

3.       Should these be the same? Why or why not?

4.       What was the most difficult part of this task?

 

What to turn in for task 1:

•       Your clockwise rotated image.

•       Your answers to the four questions above.

•       Your code as file Task1.py.

 

 

Task 2: Writing a function that computes the inverse of a grayscale image. 

Create the Python file Task2.py to do the following:

•       Read the image “Watertower.tif”. Note that this image should already be in grayscale. You can check this with print("image mode is:", im.mode) which will print “L” if it is grayscale. See the documentation for pillow about other image modes. (The reason I’m using the .tif format is so it is not jpg compressed. This will be important for future labs. Note that .tif images can be color.)

•       Display the image on the screen.

•       Create a numpy matrix that has the pixel values from the image.

•       Call the function myImageInverse() from the package MyImageFunctions.py.

(You will write this package and function—see below.) The input to this function will be the numpy matrix with the pixel values. The output will be a numpy matrix with the inverse of the pixel values.

•       Create an image from the returned matrix.

•       Display the image on the screen.

•       Write the image to a .tif file.

 

Create the file MyImageFunctions.py which defines the function myImageInverse(inImage) that takes as input a numpy matrix and outputs a numpy matrix which is the image inverse of the input. The function will thus need to:

 

•       Determine the size of the input matrix.

•       Create a new numpy matrix of the same size.

•       Use nested for loops to copy the values from the input matrix to the output matrix using the equation out_value = 255–in_value. This is the image inverse of a grayscale image.

•       Returns the output matrix.

 

Questions for task 2:

1.       What is the maximum pixel value of your inverse image?

2.       How is this maximum value related to the values of the original image?

3.       What was the most difficult part of this task?

 

 

 

What to turn in for task 2:

•       Your inverse image.

•       Your answers to the three questions above.

•       Your code as the files Task2.py and MyImageFunctions.py.

 

 

Task 3: Creating a gradient grayscale image. Computing the image average. 

Create the Python file Task3.py to do the following:

•       Create a grayscale image of size 100 rows x 256 columns in which the value of each row varies from 0 in the left column to 255 in the right column. Thus, the image contains a grayscale gradient from black on the left to white on the right.

•       Display the image on the screen.

•       Save the image as a .tif file.

•       Compute the average pixel value of the gradient image. You must use nested for loops to do this. You are not allowed to use any built-in functions to compute the average.

 

Questions for task 3:

1.       What is the average pixel value in your gradient image?

2.       Why did you expect to get this value from the gradient image?

3.       What was the most difficult part of this task?