Basics of Image Processing in Python
Writing today’s article was a fascinating experience for me and would also be for the readers of this blog. What’s so different? Two things: firstly the article is about something I always wanted to do since I was a 5-year old; secondly this topic / tools / algorithm are new to me as well. I am no way a master of image processing, but the utility of this field simply blew my mind.
image processing in python
Imagine, if you can create an application of auto-tagging a photograph as that of Facebook, or create your own face recognition password to your laptop. In this article, I will pick up a very simple but interesting application of Image processing. We will use Python to do the image processing. In next few articles, I will take over more complex examples of Image Processing. Here is the problem I will be working on in this article:
Problem Statement
Guess what is this image?
wint_sky
You are right, it’s a typical picture of an open sky. I took this picture last to last night in Bangalore from my terrace. At that point of time, I had no clue that this can be such an exciting and rewarding exercise. As a kid, I used to spend hours counting these stars but almost always failed to go beyond 50-60. I wanted to complete this exercise using some help from my machine. I had no clue that this was even possible till last Sunday, and today I have completed this long pending task using Python.
Let’s get started
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