One of the common tasks in image processing, computer vision, and other scientific applications is to extract smaller contiguous blocks from a larger block or image. This process is known as block processing or block-based image processing. In this article, we’ll use NumPy to extract contiguous smaller blocks from a larger block efficiently.
1. Using “nested loops”:
In this code, we create a new array C with the desired shape and then use nested for-loops to fill it with sub-arrays of Z. We iterate over all possible starting positions of the sub-arrays and use slicing to extract them. The resulting sub-arrays are then copied into the corresponding positions of C. Note that we also initialize C with zeros of the same data type as Z, so that the resulting array has the correct type.
2. Using “np.lib.stride_tricks.sliding_window_view()”:
This code creates a sliding window view of an array Z with shape (10,10) and fills it with random integers between 0 and 5. The sliding window view is created using the np.lib.stride_tricks.sliding_window_view() method with a window size of (n,n), where n is 3 in this case. The resulting view C has shape (8,8,3,3) since there are 8 possible positions along each dimension of the original array Z to place a sliding window of size (3,3). Each element of C is a (3,3) window view of Z. The print statement displays the shape of C.