Image Processing with Python

Basic

• matplotlib can read png and jpg files as numpy objects.
• imageio is a newer library that can read and write to a variety of image formats.
• scipy.ndimage provides some additional functionality for manipulating the image arrays.

Intermediate

• scikit-image is a library that offers a toolbox comparable to Matlab’s image processing toolbox.

Advanced

The following libraries provide more advanced functions for image manipulation.

• pillow
• openCV,
• scikit-image (to some extent)

Some resources on using Python’s basic image processing capabilities.

• Image Processing with Numpy
• SciPy Lectures on Image Manipulation
• scikit-image standard examples and introductory paper.
• SciPy2017 scikit-image video