Python Image Filtering

Tags: Python, Scikit-image, Gaussian filter, Image Processing

Part I (25%) Computing linear filters in scikit-image/python.

• Read a grayscale image moon.png.
• Filter the grayscale image with the following filters.
• Display results.
• Create a 3-by-3 matrix and write your own code to implement these filters: (You cannot use any built in functions from any library for this.)

1) Laplacian Filter

2) [0,0,0] [0,1,0] [0,0,0]

3) [0,0,0]

[0,0,1]

[0,0,0]

4) compute Im + (Im - Im average_filter(mean filter)) #where is a convolution operation and Im is moon.png.

Part II (15%) Median and Gaussian filters

• Read noisy.jpg corrupted with salt and pepper noise.
• Apply a median filter to remove the noise.
• Apply a Gaussian filter to the same noisy image.
• You can use any scikit-image functions you like.
• Which filter was more successful?

Part III (40%) An application of filtering in scikit-image: Simple image inpainting.

Write a program in scikit-image/Python to accomplish a simple image inpainting. This example and demo were shown in the lecture.

Use damage_cameraman.png and damage_mask.png.

It is an iterative algorithm. At every iteration, your program (a) blurs the entire damaged image with a Gaussian smoothing filter; then (b) with help of the mask image, restores only the undamaged pixels. Repeat these two steps (a) and (b) a few times until all damaged pixels are infilled.