PIL
libraryIn Python, PIL
(Pillow) or Python Imaging Library is an image processing library. This library supports a wide range of file formats. It is designed for an efficient internal representation of image data. Moreover, it provides powerful image processing capabilities.
ImageFilter
moduleThe ImageFilter
module in PIL
contains definitions for a pre-defined set of filters used for different purposes.
RankFilter
classThe RankFilter
class is used to create a rank filter. A rank filter is a type of filter that sorts all pixels in a window of the given size and returns the given rank’s value.
PIL.ImageFilter.RankFilter(size, rank)
size
: This is the kernel size.rank
: This is the pixel to return. With different values for rank
, we get different filters. For example, with rank as 0
we get a min filter. Similarly, with rank as size * size / 2
, we get a median filter, and so on.from PIL import Image, ImageFilter img = Image.open("man.png") size = 3 rank = size * size - 1 new_img = img.filter(ImageFilter.RankFilter(size = size, rank = rank)) new_img.save("new_man.png")
ImageFilter
and Image
modules.open()
in Image
to read module man.png
into memory .size
.rank
.RankFilter
on the image loaded in Line 3.Free Resources