2008/11/6 Robert Kern robert.kern@gmail.com:

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 21:54, Angus McMorland amcmorl@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi all,

I'm trying to import a 16-bit tiff image into a numpy array. I have found, using google, suggestions to do the following:

After starting with: i = Image.open('16bitGreyscaleImage.tif')

Stéfan van der Walt suggested: a = np.array(i.getdata()).reshape(i.size) # a 1d numpy array

and adapted from Nadav Horesh's suggestion: a = np.fromstring(i.tostring(), dtype=np.uint16).reshape(256, 256)

Both give me the same answer as: a = np.array(i, dtype=np.uint16)

This is the preferred way to do it these days.

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In all cases it looks like the resulting byte order is wrong: pixels with 0 values correctly are 0 in a, in the correct places, but all non-zero values are wrong compared to the same image opened in ImageJ (in which the image looks correct).

What's the conversion magic I need to invoke to correctly intepret this image type?

Hmm, it is possible that the __array_interface__ is giving you the wrong endian information. Anyways, use a.byteswap() to get a view of the array with the other endianness.

Many thanks Robert, that did the trick. I looked through the new numpy reference for something like the byteswap function, but I see now it's less obvious since it's only an array instance method and not a function, for which the documentation is more systematic.

Should there be a change made somewhere to document or accommodate the other endianness of the images?

Angus.

-- Robert Kern

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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 00:25, frank wang f.yw@hotmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I need to perform iir filter operation using numpy and could not googled any useful info for this. Are there filter operation similar the matlab filter funciton in Numpy?

Not in numpy. scipy.signal.lfilter() does, though.

Hi,

The PIL has some fundamental architectural problems that prevent it from dealing easily with 16-bit TIFFs, which are exacerbated on little- endian platforms. Add to this a thin sheen of various byte-order bugs and other problems in the __array_interface__, and it's really hard to get consistent loading of 16-bit tiffs across platforms. (I and many others have submitted patches for these issues to no avail.)

A while ago, I tried to see if I could graft the image file format parsers from the PIL onto a byte-loading backend that used numpy. Unfortunately, I really couldn't -- the parsers assume too much about the problematic architecture of the PIL.

I do have a private fork of the PIL that I made which remedies the bugs and above-mentioned architectural issuse, and works cross- platform, and with any endian system. (It's very restricted compared to the regular PIL -- basically it just does image IO and then converts to numpy arrays.) I haven't released this because I don't really want to make trouble -- and we're promised that a major revision of the PIL is in the offing which will fix these troubles -- but I'm happy to send the code out to those who actually need reliable 16-bit image IO.

Zach