Raspberry Pi Image Processing Programming: Develop Real-Life Examples with Python, Pillow, and SciPy

by Ashwin Pajankar

Overview

Write your own Digital Image Processing programs with the use of pillow, scipy.ndimage, and matplotlib in Python 3 with Raspberry Pi 3 as the hardware platform. This concise quick-start guide provides working code examples and exercises. Learn how to interface Raspberry Pi with various image sensors.
What You'll Learn

• Understand Raspberry Pi concepts and setup
  
• Understand digital image processing concepts
  
• Study pillow, the friendly PIL fork
  
• Explore scipy.ndimage and matplotlib
  
• Master use of the Pi camera and webcam
  

Who This Book Is For
Raspberry Pi and IoT enthusiasts, digital image processing enthusiasts, Python and Open Source enthusiasts and professionals

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484227312
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	03/22/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	126
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ashwin Pajankar is a Programmer, a Maker, an Author, a Youtuber, and an Educator with more than 10 years' experience in software design, development, testing, and automation. He graduated from the coveted IIIT Hyderabad, earning an M.Tech in computer science and engineering. He holds multiple professional certifications from Oracle, IBM, Teradata, and ISTQB in development, databases, and testing. He has won several awards in college through outreach initiatives, at work for technical achievements, and community service through corporate social responsibility programs.

Table of Contents

Raspberry Pi Digital Image Processing ProgrammingPart I: Raspberry Pi and pillowChapter 1: Getting Started• Single Board Computers• History of Single board computers• Raspberry Pi 3 Setup• Connecting Raspberry Pi to internet• Introduction to RaspbianChapter 2: Python and Digital Image Processing
• Introduction to Python• Python 2 vs Python 3• Why Python 3• Various Python Editors• Concept of Digital Signal and Image ProcessingChapter 3: PIL, pillow, matplotlib, images, and cameras
• Introduction to PIL• Why one should not use PIL• Introduction to pillow• Installation of pillow• Installation of matplotlib• Working with images and various camerasChapter 4: Basic Image processing operations
• Concepts related to Images• Cutting, copying, and pasting images• Image Channels• Calculating Histograms• Arithmetic and logical operations on image
Chapter 5: Advanced Pillow• Image enhancements• Image filtering• Colorspace conversion


Part II: Scientific Image Processing with Python 3Chapter 6: Introduction to numpy and scipy• Installation of Numpy and Scipy• Introduction to scipy.misc• Images in NumpyChapter 7: Basic Image processing with scipy.ndimage• Image transformations<• MeasurementsChapter 8: Advance topics• Morphology• FiltersChapter 9: Advanced Matplotlib• Detailed explanation of interpolation modes• Basic image processing with matplotlib alone