""" =========================== Vector Quantization Example =========================== This example shows how one can use :class:`~sklearn.preprocessing.KBinsDiscretizer` to perform vector quantization on a set of toy image, the raccoon face. """ # Authors: Gael Varoquaux # Jaques Grobler # License: BSD 3 clause # %% # Original image # -------------- # # We start by loading the raccoon face image from SciPy. We will additionally check # a couple of information regarding the image, such as the shape and data type used # to store the image. # # Note that depending of the SciPy version, we have to adapt the import since the # function returning the image is not located in the same module. Also, SciPy >= 1.10 # requires the package `pooch` to be installed. try: # Scipy >= 1.10 from scipy.datasets import face except ImportError: from scipy.misc import face raccoon_face = face(gray=True) print(f"The dimension of the image is {raccoon_face.shape}") print(f"The data used to encode the image is of type {raccoon_face.dtype}") print(f"The number of bytes taken in RAM is {raccoon_face.nbytes}") # %% # Thus the image is a 2D array of 768 pixels in height and 1024 pixels in width. Each # value is a 8-bit unsigned integer, which means that the image is encoded using 8 # bits per pixel. The total memory usage of the image is 786 kilobytes (1 byte equals # 8 bits). # # Using 8-bit unsigned integer means that the image is encoded using 256 different # shades of gray, at most. We can check the distribution of these values. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax = plt.subplots(ncols=2, figsize=(12, 4)) ax[0].imshow(raccoon_face, cmap=plt.cm.gray) ax[0].axis("off") ax[0].set_title("Rendering of the image") ax[1].hist(raccoon_face.ravel(), bins=256) ax[1].set_xlabel("Pixel value") ax[1].set_ylabel("Count of pixels") ax[1].set_title("Distribution of the pixel values") _ = fig.suptitle("Original image of a raccoon face") # %% # Compression via vector quantization # ----------------------------------- # # The idea behind compression via vector quantization is to reduce the number of # gray levels to represent an image. For instance, we can use 8 values instead # of 256 values. Therefore, it means that we could efficiently use 3 bits instead # of 8 bits to encode a single pixel and therefore reduce the memory usage by a # factor of approximately 2.5. We will later discuss about this memory usage. # # Encoding strategy # """"""""""""""""" # # The compression can be done using a # :class:`~sklearn.preprocessing.KBinsDiscretizer`. We need to choose a strategy # to define the 8 gray values to sub-sample. The simplest strategy is to define # them equally spaced, which correspond to setting `strategy="uniform"`. From # the previous histogram, we know that this strategy is certainly not optimal. from sklearn.preprocessing import KBinsDiscretizer n_bins = 8 encoder = KBinsDiscretizer( n_bins=n_bins, encode="ordinal", strategy="uniform", random_state=0, ) compressed_raccoon_uniform = encoder.fit_transform(raccoon_face.reshape(-1, 1)).reshape( raccoon_face.shape ) fig, ax = plt.subplots(ncols=2, figsize=(12, 4)) ax[0].imshow(compressed_raccoon_uniform, cmap=plt.cm.gray) ax[0].axis("off") ax[0].set_title("Rendering of the image") ax[1].hist(compressed_raccoon_uniform.ravel(), bins=256) ax[1].set_xlabel("Pixel value") ax[1].set_ylabel("Count of pixels") ax[1].set_title("Sub-sampled distribution of the pixel values") _ = fig.suptitle("Raccoon face compressed using 3 bits and a uniform strategy") # %% # Qualitatively, we can spot some small regions where we see the effect of the # compression (e.g. leaves on the bottom right corner). But after all, the resulting # image is still looking good. # # We observe that the distribution of pixels values have been mapped to 8 # different values. We can check the correspondence between such values and the # original pixel values. bin_edges = encoder.bin_edges_[0] bin_center = bin_edges[:-1] + (bin_edges[1:] - bin_edges[:-1]) / 2 bin_center # %% _, ax = plt.subplots() ax.hist(raccoon_face.ravel(), bins=256) color = "tab:orange" for center in bin_center: ax.axvline(center, color=color) ax.text(center - 10, ax.get_ybound()[1] + 100, f"{center:.1f}", color=color) # %% # As previously stated, the uniform sampling strategy is not optimal. Notice for # instance that the pixels mapped to the value 7 will encode a rather small # amount of information, whereas the mapped value 3 will represent a large # amount of counts. We can instead use a clustering strategy such as k-means to # find a more optimal mapping. encoder = KBinsDiscretizer( n_bins=n_bins, encode="ordinal", strategy="kmeans", random_state=0, ) compressed_raccoon_kmeans = encoder.fit_transform(raccoon_face.reshape(-1, 1)).reshape( raccoon_face.shape ) fig, ax = plt.subplots(ncols=2, figsize=(12, 4)) ax[0].imshow(compressed_raccoon_kmeans, cmap=plt.cm.gray) ax[0].axis("off") ax[0].set_title("Rendering of the image") ax[1].hist(compressed_raccoon_kmeans.ravel(), bins=256) ax[1].set_xlabel("Pixel value") ax[1].set_ylabel("Number of pixels") ax[1].set_title("Distribution of the pixel values") _ = fig.suptitle("Raccoon face compressed using 3 bits and a K-means strategy") # %% bin_edges = encoder.bin_edges_[0] bin_center = bin_edges[:-1] + (bin_edges[1:] - bin_edges[:-1]) / 2 bin_center # %% _, ax = plt.subplots() ax.hist(raccoon_face.ravel(), bins=256) color = "tab:orange" for center in bin_center: ax.axvline(center, color=color) ax.text(center - 10, ax.get_ybound()[1] + 100, f"{center:.1f}", color=color) # %% # The counts in the bins are now more balanced and their centers are no longer # equally spaced. Note that we could enforce the same number of pixels per bin # by using the `strategy="quantile"` instead of `strategy="kmeans"`. # # Memory footprint # """""""""""""""" # # We previously stated that we should save 8 times less memory. Let's verify it. print(f"The number of bytes taken in RAM is {compressed_raccoon_kmeans.nbytes}") print(f"Compression ratio: {compressed_raccoon_kmeans.nbytes / raccoon_face.nbytes}") # %% # It is quite surprising to see that our compressed image is taking x8 more # memory than the original image. This is indeed the opposite of what we # expected. The reason is mainly due to the type of data used to encode the # image. print(f"Type of the compressed image: {compressed_raccoon_kmeans.dtype}") # %% # Indeed, the output of the :class:`~sklearn.preprocessing.KBinsDiscretizer` is # an array of 64-bit float. It means that it takes x8 more memory. However, we # use this 64-bit float representation to encode 8 values. Indeed, we will save # memory only if we cast the compressed image into an array of 3-bits integers. We # could use the method `numpy.ndarray.astype`. However, a 3-bits integer # representation does not exist and to encode the 8 values, we would need to use # the 8-bit unsigned integer representation as well. # # In practice, observing a memory gain would require the original image to be in # a 64-bit float representation.