Convolve2d just by using Numpy

Question

I am studying image-processing using Numpy and facing a problem with filtering with convolution.

I would like to convolve a gray-scale image. (convolve a 2d Array with a smaller 2d Array)

Does anyone have an idea to refine my method ?

I know that scipy supports convolve2d but I want to make a convolve2d only by using Numpy.

What I have done

First, I made a 2d array the submatrices.

a = np.arange(25).reshape(5,5) # original matrix

submatrices = np.array([
     [a[:-2,:-2], a[:-2,1:-1], a[:-2,2:]],
     [a[1:-1,:-2], a[1:-1,1:-1], a[1:-1,2:]],
     [a[2:,:-2], a[2:,1:-1], a[2:,2:]]])

the submatrices seems complicated but what I am doing is shown in the following drawing.

Next, I multiplied each submatrices with a filter.

conv_filter = np.array([[0,-1,0],[-1,4,-1],[0,-1,0]])
multiplied_subs = np.einsum('ij,ijkl->ijkl',conv_filter,submatrices)

and summed them.

np.sum(np.sum(multiplied_subs, axis = -3), axis = -3)
#array([[ 6,  7,  8],
#       [11, 12, 13],
#       [16, 17, 18]])

Thus this procudure can be called my convolve2d.

def my_convolve2d(a, conv_filter):
    submatrices = np.array([
         [a[:-2,:-2], a[:-2,1:-1], a[:-2,2:]],
         [a[1:-1,:-2], a[1:-1,1:-1], a[1:-1,2:]],
         [a[2:,:-2], a[2:,1:-1], a[2:,2:]]])
    multiplied_subs = np.einsum('ij,ijkl->ijkl',conv_filter,submatrices)
    return np.sum(np.sum(multiplied_subs, axis = -3), axis = -3)

However, I find this my_convolve2d troublesome for 3 reasons.

1. Generation of the submatrices is too awkward that is difficult to read and can only be used when the filter is 3*3
2. The size of the varient submatrices seems to be too big, since it is approximately 9 folds bigger than the original matrix.
3. The summing seems a little non intuitive. Simply said, ugly.

Thank you for reading this far.

Kind of update. I wrote a conv3d for myself. I will leave this as a public domain.

def convolve3d(img, kernel):
    # calc the size of the array of submatracies
    sub_shape = tuple(np.subtract(img.shape, kernel.shape) + 1)

    # alias for the function
    strd = np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided

    # make an array of submatracies
    submatrices = strd(img,kernel.shape + sub_shape,img.strides * 2)

    # sum the submatraces and kernel
    convolved_matrix = np.einsum('hij,hijklm->klm', kernel, submatrices)

    return convolved_matrix

Answer 1

You could generate the subarrays using as_strided [1]:

import numpy as np

a = np.array([[ 0,  1,  2,  3,  4],
       [ 5,  6,  7,  8,  9],
       [10, 11, 12, 13, 14],
       [15, 16, 17, 18, 19],
       [20, 21, 22, 23, 24]])

sub_shape = (3,3)
view_shape = tuple(np.subtract(a.shape, sub_shape) + 1) + sub_shape
strides = a.strides + a.strides

sub_matrices = np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided(a,view_shape,strides)

To get rid of your second "ugly" sum, alter your einsum so that the output array only has j and k. This implies your second summation.

conv_filter = np.array([[0,-1,0],[-1,5,-1],[0,-1,0]])
m = np.einsum('ij,ijkl->kl',conv_filter,sub_matrices)

# [[ 6  7  8]
#  [11 12 13]
#  [16 17 18]]