On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Arunabha Adhikari <arunabha.adhik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am a beginner in Python programming. I am not a computer professional I am > a physicist. I was trying to write a code in python for my own research > which involves a little image processing. All I need to do is to display an > image and then select a region of interest using my mouse and finally crop > out the selected region. I can do this in Matlab using the ginput() > function. I tried using PIL. But I find that after I issue the command > Image.show(), the image is displayed but then the program halts there unless > I exit from the image window. Is there any way to implement what I was > planning. Do I need to download any other module? Please advise.
The task of selecting an area on an image for processing is called "rubber-banding". The technique is to XOR the pixels of the selected region (rectangle). Then get the boundaries of the region. I actually wrote a complete image viewer cum editor using wxPython/PIL many years back. I later on published the rubberbanding part as an ASPN recipe. If you want to use wxPython, the recipe would be useful. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/189744/ Btw, this was for an older release of wxPython, so not sure whether this will work now. However the algorithm is generic and can be mapped to any GUI library. The image viewer source code is here. Btw, this is really *ancient* and an abandoned project - I updated it last in 2003 I guess. However I guess many of the code there is still generically useful, especially the convolution filters. If you are feeling either brave or desperate or both, click on the following link. http://members.fortunecity.com/anandpillai/python/PyWiewSrc.zip Regards --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
