Module: data¶

Colour image of the astronaut Eileen Collins.

Photograph of Eileen Collins, an American astronaut. She was selected as an astronaut in 1992 and first piloted the space shuttle STS-63 in 1995. She retired in 2006 after spending a total of 38 days, 8 hours and 10 minutes in outer space.

This image was downloaded from the NASA Great Images database <http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001177.html>`__.

No known copyright restrictions, released into the public domain.

Generate synthetic binary image with several rounded blob-like objects.

Examples

>>> from skimage import data
>>> data.binary_blobs(length=5, blob_size_fraction=0.2, seed=1)
array([[ True, False,  True,  True,  True],
       [ True,  True,  True, False,  True],
       [False,  True, False,  True,  True],
       [ True, False, False,  True,  True],
       [ True, False, False, False,  True]], dtype=bool)
>>> blobs = data.binary_blobs(length=256, blob_size_fraction=0.1)
>>> # Finer structures
>>> blobs = data.binary_blobs(length=256, blob_size_fraction=0.05)
>>> # Blobs cover a smaller volume fraction of the image
>>> blobs = data.binary_blobs(length=256, volume_fraction=0.3)

Gray-level “camera” image.

Often used for segmentation and denoising examples.

Checkerboard image.

Checkerboards are often used in image calibration, since the corner-points are easy to locate. Because of the many parallel edges, they also visualise distortions particularly well.

Chelsea the cat.

An example with texture, prominent edges in horizontal and diagonal directions, as well as features of differing scales.

Notes

No copyright restrictions. CC0 by the photographer (Stefan van der Walt).

Motion blurred clock.

This photograph of a wall clock was taken while moving the camera in an aproximately horizontal direction. It may be used to illustrate inverse filters and deconvolution.

Released into the public domain by the photographer (Stefan van der Walt).

Coffee cup.

This photograph is courtesy of Pikolo Espresso Bar. It contains several elliptical shapes as well as varying texture (smooth porcelain to course wood grain).

Notes

No copyright restrictions. CC0 by the photographer (Rachel Michetti).

Greek coins from Pompeii.

This image shows several coins outlined against a gray background. It is especially useful in, e.g. segmentation tests, where individual objects need to be identified against a background. The background shares enough grey levels with the coins that a simple segmentation is not sufficient.

Notes

This image was downloaded from the Brooklyn Museum Collection.

No known copyright restrictions.

Black and white silhouette of a horse.

This image was downloaded from openclipart <http://openclipart.org/detail/158377/horse-by-marauder>

Released into public domain and drawn and uploaded by Andreas Preuss (marauder).

Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.

This photograph contains the Hubble Telescope’s farthest ever view of the universe. It can be useful as an example for multi-scale detection.

Notes

This image was downloaded from HubbleSite.

The image was captured by NASA and may be freely used in the public domain.

Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining with hematoxylin counterstaining.

This picture shows colonic glands where the IHC expression of FHL2 protein is revealed with DAB. Hematoxylin counterstaining is applied to enhance the negative parts of the tissue.

This image was acquired at the Center for Microscopy And Molecular Imaging (CMMI).

No known copyright restrictions.

Load an image from file.

Deprecated function. Use skimage.data.astronaut instead.

Colour “Lena” image.

This image has been removed from scikit-image due to copyright concerns.

The standard, yet sometimes controversial Lena test image was scanned from the November 1972 edition of Playboy magazine. From an image processing perspective, this image is useful because it contains smooth, textured, shaded as well as detail areas.

Load an image file located in the data directory.

Surface of the moon.

This low-contrast image of the surface of the moon is useful for illustrating histogram equalization and contrast stretching.

Scanned page.

This image of printed text is useful for demonstrations requiring uneven background illumination.

Launch photo of DSCOVR on Falcon 9 by SpaceX.

This is the launch photo of Falcon 9 carrying DSCOVR lifted off from SpaceX’s Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL.

Notes

This image was downloaded from SpaceX Photos.

The image was captured by SpaceX and released in the public domain.

Gray-level “text” image used for corner detection.

Notes

This image was downloaded from Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Corner.png>`__.

No known copyright restrictions, released into the public domain.

Set the default plugin for a specified operation. The plugin will be loaded if it hasn’t been already.

Examples

To use Matplotlib as the default image reader, you would write:

>>> from skimage import io
>>> io.use_plugin('matplotlib', 'imread')

To see a list of available plugins run io.available_plugins. Note that this lists plugins that are defined, but the full list may not be usable if your system does not have the required libraries installed.