crop center portion of a numpy image

Question

Let's say I have a numpy image of some width x and height y. I have to crop the center portion of the image to width cropx and height cropy. Let's assume that cropx and cropy are positive non zero integers and less than the respective image size. What's the best way to apply the slicing for the output image?

Answer 1

Something along these lines -

def crop_center(img,cropx,cropy):
    y,x = img.shape
    startx = x//2-(cropx//2)
    starty = y//2-(cropy//2)    
    return img[starty:starty+cropy,startx:startx+cropx]

Sample run -

In [45]: img
Out[45]: 
array([[88, 93, 42, 25, 36, 14, 59, 46, 77, 13, 52, 58],
       [43, 47, 40, 48, 23, 74, 12, 33, 58, 93, 87, 87],
       [54, 75, 79, 21, 15, 44, 51, 68, 28, 94, 78, 48],
       [57, 46, 14, 98, 43, 76, 86, 56, 86, 88, 96, 49],
       [52, 83, 13, 18, 40, 33, 11, 87, 38, 74, 23, 88],
       [81, 28, 86, 89, 16, 28, 66, 67, 80, 23, 95, 98],
       [46, 30, 18, 31, 73, 15, 90, 77, 71, 57, 61, 78],
       [33, 58, 20, 11, 80, 25, 96, 80, 27, 40, 66, 92],
       [13, 59, 77, 53, 91, 16, 47, 79, 33, 78, 25, 66],
       [22, 80, 40, 24, 17, 85, 20, 70, 81, 68, 50, 80]])

In [46]: crop_center(img,4,6)
Out[46]: 
array([[15, 44, 51, 68],
       [43, 76, 86, 56],
       [40, 33, 11, 87],
       [16, 28, 66, 67],
       [73, 15, 90, 77],
       [80, 25, 96, 80]])