Sliding window histogram¶

from __future__ import division
import numpy as np
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from skimage import data, transform
from skimage.util import img_as_ubyte
from skimage.morphology import disk
from skimage.filters import rank


matplotlib.rcParams['font.size'] = 9


def windowed_histogram_similarity(image, selem, reference_hist, n_bins):
    # Compute normalized windowed histogram feature vector for each pixel
    px_histograms = rank.windowed_histogram(image, selem, n_bins=n_bins)

    # Reshape coin histogram to (1,1,N) for broadcast when we want to use it in
    # arithmetic operations with the windowed histograms from the image
    reference_hist = reference_hist.reshape((1, 1) + reference_hist.shape)

    # Compute Chi squared distance metric: sum((X-Y)^2 / (X+Y));
    # a measure of distance between histograms
    X = px_histograms
    Y = reference_hist

    num = (X - Y) ** 2
    denom = X + Y
    denom[denom == 0] = np.infty
    frac = num / denom

    chi_sqr = 0.5 * np.sum(frac, axis=2)

    # Generate a similarity measure. It needs to be low when distance is high
    # and high when distance is low; taking the reciprocal will do this.
    # Chi squared will always be >= 0, add small value to prevent divide by 0.
    similarity = 1 / (chi_sqr + 1.0e-4)

    return similarity


# Load the `skimage.data.coins` image
img = img_as_ubyte(data.coins())

# Quantize to 16 levels of greyscale; this way the output image will have a
# 16-dimensional feature vector per pixel
quantized_img = img // 16

# Select the coin from the 4th column, second row.
# Co-ordinate ordering: [x1,y1,x2,y2]
coin_coords = [184, 100, 228, 148]   # 44 x 44 region
coin = quantized_img[coin_coords[1]:coin_coords[3],
                     coin_coords[0]:coin_coords[2]]

# Compute coin histogram and normalize
coin_hist, _ = np.histogram(coin.flatten(), bins=16, range=(0, 16))
coin_hist = coin_hist.astype(float) / np.sum(coin_hist)

# Compute a disk shaped mask that will define the shape of our sliding window
# Example coin is ~44px across, so make a disk 61px wide (2 * rad + 1) to be
# big enough for other coins too.
selem = disk(30)

# Compute the similarity across the complete image
similarity = windowed_histogram_similarity(quantized_img, selem, coin_hist,
                                           coin_hist.shape[0])

# Now try a rotated image
rotated_img = img_as_ubyte(transform.rotate(img, 45.0, resize=True))
# Quantize to 16 levels as before
quantized_rotated_image = rotated_img // 16
# Similarity on rotated image
rotated_similarity = windowed_histogram_similarity(quantized_rotated_image,
                                                   selem, coin_hist,
                                                   coin_hist.shape[0])

fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2, figsize=(10, 10))

axes[0, 0].imshow(quantized_img, cmap='gray')
axes[0, 0].set_title('Quantized image')
axes[0, 0].axis('off')

axes[0, 1].imshow(coin, cmap='gray')
axes[0, 1].set_title('Coin from 2nd row, 4th column')
axes[0, 1].axis('off')

axes[1, 0].imshow(img, cmap='gray')
axes[1, 0].imshow(similarity, cmap='hot', alpha=0.5)
axes[1, 0].set_title('Original image with overlaid similarity')
axes[1, 0].axis('off')

axes[1, 1].imshow(rotated_img, cmap='gray')
axes[1, 1].imshow(rotated_similarity, cmap='hot', alpha=0.5)
axes[1, 1].set_title('Rotated image with overlaid similarity')
axes[1, 1].axis('off')

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()