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Hands-On Image Processing with Python
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Hands-On Image Processing with Python

by Sandipan Dey
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
492 pages
12h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Down-sampling and anti-aliasing

As we have seen, down-sampling is not very good for shrinking images as it creates an aliasing effect. For instance, if we try to resize (down-sample) the original image by reducing the width and height a factor of 5, we shall get such patchy and bad output.

Anti-aliasing

The problem here is that a single pixel in the output image corresponds to 25 pixels in the input image, but we are sampling the value of a single pixel instead. We should be averaging over a small area in the input image. This can be done using ANTIALIAS (a high-quality down-sampling filter); this is how you can do it:

im = im.resize((im.width//5, im.height//5), Image.ANTIALIAS)pylab.figure(figsize=(15,10)), pylab.imshow(im), pylab.show() ...
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ISBN: 9781789343731