""" ======= Entropy ======= In information theory, information entropy is the log-base-2 of the number of possible outcomes for a message. For an image, local entropy is related to the complexity contained in a given neighborhood, typically defined by a structuring element. A large number of various gray levels has a higher entropy than an homogeneous neighborhood. Entropy filter can detect subtle variations of local gray level distribution, in the example, the image is composed of two surfaces with two slightly different distributions. Image center has a random distribution in the range [-14,+14] centered on 128, while the borders has a random distribution in the range [-15,+15] centered on 128. We apply the local entropy measure using a circular structuring element of radius 10. As a result, one can detect the central square. Radius should be big enough to efficiently sample the local gray level distribution. In the second example, the local entropy is used to detect image texture. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from skimage import data from skimage.util import img_as_ubyte from skimage.filters.rank import entropy from skimage.morphology import disk noise_mask = 28*np.ones((128, 128), dtype=np.uint8) noise_mask[32:-32, 32:-32] = 30 noise = (noise_mask*np.random.random(noise_mask.shape)-.5*noise_mask).astype(np.uint8) img = noise + 128 radius = 10 e = entropy(img, disk(radius)) plt.figure(figsize=[15, 5]) plt.subplot(1, 3, 1) plt.imshow(noise_mask, cmap=plt.cm.gray) plt.xlabel('noise mask') plt.colorbar() plt.subplot(1, 3, 2) plt.imshow(img, cmap=plt.cm.gray) plt.xlabel('noised image') plt.colorbar() plt.subplot(1, 3, 3) plt.imshow(e) plt.xlabel('image local entropy ($r=%d$)' % radius) plt.colorbar() #second example: texture detection image = img_as_ubyte(data.camera()) fig, (ax0, ax1) = plt.subplots(ncols=2, figsize=(10, 4)) img0 = ax0.imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.gray) ax0.set_title('Image') ax0.axis('off') fig.colorbar(img0, ax=ax0) img1 = ax1.imshow(entropy(image, disk(5)), cmap=plt.cm.jet) ax1.set_title('Entropy') ax1.axis('off') fig.colorbar(img1, ax=ax1) plt.show()