""" ======= 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. The entropy filter can detect subtle variations in the local gray level distribution. In the example, the image is composed of two surfaces with two slightly different distributions. The image has a uniform random distribution in the range [-14, +14] in the middle of the image and a uniform random distribution in the range [-15, 15] at the image borders, both centered at a gray value of 128. We apply the local entropy measure using a circular structuring element of radius 10. As a result, one can detect the central square. The radius is 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)) fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(8, 5)) ax1, ax2, ax3 = ax.ravel() ax1.imshow(noise_mask, cmap=plt.cm.gray) ax1.set_xlabel('Noise mask') ax2.imshow(img, cmap=plt.cm.gray) ax2.set_xlabel('Noised image') ax3.imshow(e) ax3.set_xlabel('Local entropy ($r=%d$)' % radius) # second example: texture detection image = img_as_ubyte(data.camera()) fig, (ax0, ax1) = plt.subplots(ncols=2, figsize=(10, 4), sharex=True, sharey=True, subplot_kw={'adjustable':'box-forced'}) 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()