Viewing .npy images
Question:
How can I view images stored with a .npy extension and save my own files in that format?
Answers:
.npy is the file extension for numpy arrays – you can read them using numpy.load:
import numpy as np
img_array = np.load('filename.npy')
One of the easiest ways to view them is using matplotlib’s imshow function:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.imshow(img_array, cmap='gray')
plt.show()
You could also use PIL or pillow:
from PIL import Image
im = Image.fromarray(img_array)
# this might fail if `img_array` contains a data type that is not supported by PIL,
# in which case you could try casting it to a different dtype e.g.:
# im = Image.fromarray(img_array.astype(np.uint8))
im.show()
These functions aren’t part of the Python standard library, so you may need to install matplotlib and/or PIL/pillow if you haven’t already. I’m also assuming that the files are either 2D [rows, cols] (black and white) or 3D [rows, cols, rgb(a)] (color) arrays of pixel values.
Thanks Ali_m. In my case I inspect the npy file to check how many images was in the file with:
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
data = np.load('imgs.npy')
data.shape
then I plotted the images in a loop:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
for i in range(len(data)):
plt.imshow(data[i], cmap='gray')
plt.show()
How can I view images stored with a .npy extension and save my own files in that format?
.npy is the file extension for numpy arrays – you can read them using numpy.load:
import numpy as np
img_array = np.load('filename.npy')
One of the easiest ways to view them is using matplotlib’s imshow function:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.imshow(img_array, cmap='gray')
plt.show()
You could also use PIL or pillow:
from PIL import Image
im = Image.fromarray(img_array)
# this might fail if `img_array` contains a data type that is not supported by PIL,
# in which case you could try casting it to a different dtype e.g.:
# im = Image.fromarray(img_array.astype(np.uint8))
im.show()
These functions aren’t part of the Python standard library, so you may need to install matplotlib and/or PIL/pillow if you haven’t already. I’m also assuming that the files are either 2D [rows, cols] (black and white) or 3D [rows, cols, rgb(a)] (color) arrays of pixel values.
Thanks Ali_m. In my case I inspect the npy file to check how many images was in the file with:
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
data = np.load('imgs.npy')
data.shape
then I plotted the images in a loop:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
for i in range(len(data)):
plt.imshow(data[i], cmap='gray')
plt.show()