Mahotas – Local Minima in Image

In this article we will see how we can find local minima of the image in mahotas. Local minima is basically local peaks in the image. In this tutorial we will use “lena” image, below is the command to load it.
 
mahotas.demos.load('lena')
Below is the lena image 
 
In order to do this we will use mahotas.locmin method
Syntax : mahotas.locmin(img)
Argument : It takes image object as argument
Return : It returns image object
Note : Input image should be filtered or should be loaded as grey
In order to filter the image we will take the image object which is numpy.ndarray and filter it with the help of indexing, below is the command to do this
 
image = image[:, :, 0]
Below is the implementation 
 
Python3
| # importing required librariesimportmahotasimportmahotas.demosfrompylab importgray, imshow, showimportnumpy as npimportmatplotlib.pyplot as plt  # loading imageimg =mahotas.demos.load('lena')  # filtering imageimg =img.max(2)print("Image")  # showing imageimshow(img)show()# getting local minima of the imagenew_img =mahotas.locmin(img) # showing imageprint("Local Minima")imshow(new_img)show()) | 
Output : 
 
Image
Local Minima
Another example 
 
Python3
| # importing required librariesimportmahotasimportnumpy as npfrompylab importgray, imshow, showimportosimportmatplotlib.pyplot as plt # loading imageimg =mahotas.imread('dog_image.png')# filtering imageimg =img[:, :, 0]  print("Image")  # showing imageimshow(img)show()# getting local minima of the imagenew_img =mahotas.locmin(img) # showing imageprint("Local Minima")imshow(new_img)show() | 
Output : 
 
Image
Local Minima
 
				 
					


