[Image-SIG] conversion of a full image from RGB<->HSI

[Vinicius Cubas Brand]

Hi.  Unfortunately I think that this transformation can not be done
with Image.convert: you can only do transformations between equivalent
color spaces (i.e. reach the destination colorspace by doing a
multiplication with a matrix with the source colorspace).

The HSI colorspace, instead, is not an equivalent colorspace of RGB.
To get the HSI equivalent of a RGB pixel one must do these
transformations:

I = 1/3 * (R+G+B)

S = 1 - (3/(R+G+B))*(min(R,G,B))

H = cos^-1 ( (((R-G)+(R-B))/2)/ (sqrt((R-G)^2 + (R-B)*(G-B) )))

Some references:
1: http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ncs/color/t_convert.html
2: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=68502

There is a lot of efficient ways to do these transformations and also
efficient algorithms in C/C++ . But to do it in python pil i would
have to do a pixel by pixel operation with Image.getpixel and
Image.putpixel, with every image pixel, what seemed a very slow way to
do.

I already thought in making an extension to PIL to do this colorspace
transformation, but only asking to be sure there is not one already.

Vinicius


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:50:25 +0100 (CET),
giovanniangeli at iquattrocastelli.it
<giovanniangeli at iquattrocastelli.it> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Can you help me in a doubt? Is there some efficient way to do a
> > conversion between an image in the RGB format in an image and the HSI
> > format (aka, HLS or HSV), in python (PIL or others)?
> 
> yes, PIL gives that.
> 
> look at the page
> 
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/image.htm
> 
> in particular at the <convert> method of image Object in PIL.Image module.
> Enjoy.
> 
> P.S. In general I have found in PIL an efficient and complete image
> processing library to be use from Python.
> 
> Giovanni Angeli.
> <giovanniangeli at iquattrocastelli.it>
> 
> 


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