Difference between PIL resize and OpenCV resize

Hi,

I want to mimic behavior of PIL.Image.resize(…,interpolation=PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS). What I would like to expect, is to have matching pixel vales (~99.9% exact match should be fine) . How can I do this with OpenCV ? I tried Opencv resize with available interpolation methods (including LANCZOS4) , but result does differ from the one I got from PIL.

Why I’m doing this? Well I 'm developing machine learning program in C that is using (infer) pre-trained model (done in Python+PIL with PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS). Even small differences in preprocessing of images has an impact on how machine learning model behave.

So either I find a way to achieve same resize behavior in OpenCV as used in PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS or how to use PIL in C.

So how can I get over this difference?

Thanks in advance for answering my question.

Please advice

In any case, you can easily convert PIL format to OpenCv format. Here’s how

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One major difference: The output of operations is completely different. In Pillow, ​you set radius, while in cv you set kernel size, which is literally diameter. You should use ksize=(7, 7) to achieve the same result.

But Dataloader could only support PIL Image as its input.
What I want to do is that:

  1. Use OpenCV to read, and preprocess image like transforms.
  2. Use data.Dataloader to create train dataloader and test dataloader. But it cannot accept data that is resized by OpenCV.
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Read with opencv, convert it to PIL format, process the data and then you can revert it back to cv2 if you want.

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ah neat. we must be on the same team.

OK Finally, our team rewrites the whole torchvision to enable it to support opencv readings, including the transform file.
Now it works well.

@LvJC: How to check that transform file uses opencv for resizing an image?