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This page shows a few libvips examples using Python. They will work with small syntax changes in any language with a libvips binding.
The libvips test suite is written in Python and exercises every operation in the API. It's also a useful source of examples.
Average a region of interest box on an image
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import pyvips
left = 10
top = 10
width = 64
height = 64
image = pyvips.Image.new_from_file(sys.argv[1])
roi = image.crop(left, top, width, height)
print('average:', roi.avg())
libvips and numpy
You can use pyvips.Image.new_from_memory()
to make a vips image from
an area of memory. The memory array needs to be laid out band-interleaved,
as a set of scanlines, with no padding between lines.
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import time
import pyvips
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
if len(sys.argv) != 3:
print(f'usage: {sys.argv[0]} input-filename output-filename')
sys.exit(-1)
# map vips formats to np dtypes
format_to_dtype = {
'uchar': np.uint8,
'char': np.int8,
'ushort': np.uint16,
'short': np.int16,
'uint': np.uint32,
'int': np.int32,
'float': np.float32,
'double': np.float64,
'complex': np.complex64,
'dpcomplex': np.complex128,
}
# map np dtypes to vips
dtype_to_format = {
'uint8': 'uchar',
'int8': 'char',
'uint16': 'ushort',
'int16': 'short',
'uint32': 'uint',
'int32': 'int',
'float32': 'float',
'float64': 'double',
'complex64': 'complex',
'complex128': 'dpcomplex',
}
# load with PIL
start_pillow = time.time()
pillow_img = np.asarray(Image.open(sys.argv[1]))
print('Pillow Time:', time.time()-start_pillow)
print('original shape', pillow_img.shape)
# load with vips to a memory array
start_vips = time.time()
img = pyvips.Image.new_from_file(sys.argv[1], access='sequential')
mem_img = img.write_to_memory()
# then make a numpy array from that buffer object
np_3d = np.ndarray(buffer=mem_img,
dtype=format_to_dtype[img.format],
shape=[img.height, img.width, img.bands])
print('Vips Time:', time.time()-start_vips)
print('final shape', np_3d.shape)
# verify we have the same result
print('Sum of the Differences:', np.sum(np_3d-pillow_img))
# make a vips image from the numpy array
height, width, bands = np_3d.shape
linear = np_3d.reshape(width * height * bands)
vi = pyvips.Image.new_from_memory(linear.data, width, height, bands,
dtype_to_format[str(np_3d.dtype)])
# and write back to disc for checking
vi.write_to_file(sys.argv[2])
Build huge image mosaic
This makes a 100,000 x 100,000 black image, then inserts all the images you pass on the command-line into it at random positions. libvips is able to run this program in sequential mode: it'll open all the input images at the same time, and stream pixels from them as it needs them to generate the output.
To test it, first make a large 1-bit image. This command will take the
green channel and write as a 1-bit fax image. wtc.jpg
is a test 10,000
x 10,000 jpeg:
$ vips extract_band wtc.jpg x.tif[squash,compression=ccittfax4,strip] 1
Now make 1,000 copies of that image in a subdirectory:
$ mkdir test
$ for i in {1..1000}; do cp x.tif test/$i.tif; done
And run this Python program on them:
$ time python try255.py x.tif[squash,compression=ccittfax4,strip,bigtiff] test/*
real 1m59.924s
user 4m5.388s
sys 0m8.936s
It completes in just under two minutes on this laptop, and needs about 7gb of RAM to run. It would need about the same amount of memory for a full-colour RGB image, I was just keen to keep disc usage down.
If you wanted to handle transparency, or if you wanted mixed CMYK and RGB images, you'd need to do some more work to convert them all into the same colourspace before inserting them.
#!/usr/bin/python3
#file try255.py
import sys
import random
import pyvips
# this makes a 8-bit, mono image of 100,000 x 100,000 pixels, each pixel zero
im = pyvips.Image.black(100000, 100000)
for filename in sys.argv[2:]:
tile = pyvips.Image.new_from_file(filename, access='sequential')
im = im.insert(tile,
random.randint(0, im.width - tile.width),
random.randint(0, im.height - tile.height))
im.write_to_file(sys.argv[1])