Imreadeval

imreadeval is a package to evaluate the performance of various python imread functions from different packages.

Install

pip install imreadeval

PS. If you use anaconda, please install dependencies before pip install. The default dependency install is pip based.

Or just clone this repo, if you want to use updated version.

Packages Evaluated

• Pillow https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
• OpenCV https://github.com/opencv/opencv
• Matplotlib https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib
• imageio (descendent of scipy.io.imread, which is deprecated) https://github.com/imageio/imageio
• SciKit-Image (depend on SciPy) https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image
• imread https://github.com/luispedro/imread

Usage

Just evaluate import imreadeval, then all imread packages installed will be tested, and the fastest one shows.

In [1]: import imreadeval INFO:root: imread performance test: INFO:root: Pillow time: 0.8008584999999995. INFO:root: OpenCV is not installed. INFO:root: Matplotlib time: 0.8844109000000007. INFO:root: imageio time: 0.9442649999999997. INFO:root: SciKit-Image time: 0.9424957000000003. INFO:root: imread is not installed. INFO:root: Pillow is the fastest.

Or just import a fastest imread function by from imreadeval import imread.

In [1]: import imreadeval INFO:root: imread performance test: INFO:root: Pillow time: 0.8008584999999995. INFO:root: OpenCV is not installed. INFO:root: Matplotlib time: 0.8844109000000007. INFO:root: imageio time: 0.9442649999999997. INFO:root: SciKit-Image time: 0.9424957000000003. INFO:root: imread is not installed. INFO:root: Pillow is the fastest.

In [2]: x = imread('imreadeval/images/clouds.png')

or try to evaluate different imread functions using YOUR OWN IMAGES by

from imreadeval import imread_eval

optimum_package_name = imread_eval(filenames = ['filename1.jpg', 'filename2.png'], times = 1000)

Develop

1. git clone the repo git@github.com:quxiaofeng/imreadeval.git
2. pip install -e .
3. python -c "import imreadeval"

Acknowledgement

This package is done in Tsinghua University, Shenzhen International Graduate School.