3 Display several images

Objectives

• Load several images by using a loop

• Display several images on the same figure

List the images

Suppose the images are stored in the folder “flowers”.

From this page, a code to list the files with extension JPG are given by:

import glob
images = glob.glob('flowers/*.JPG')

images is a list that contains the file name of each image:

N = len(images)
print(f"Il y a {N} images :")
for f in images:
    print(f)

Il y a 3 images :
flowers/IMG_5302.JPG
flowers/IMG_5370.JPG
flowers/IMG_5367.JPG

Display the images

Now we can create a figure with as many axes as images in the list:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, axs = plt.subplots(1,N)
plt.show()

… and change the previous code to show each image in each axis:

import skimage.io as io
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Figure with 1 row, N columns, and a specific size
fig, axs = plt.subplots(1,N, figsize=(15,5))

# Counter for the axes
i = 0

# Loop over the images
for f in images:
    
    # Load the image
    img = io.imread(f)
    
    # Display the image in the axe i
    axs[i].imshow(img)
    
    # Add a title with the filename
    axs[i].set_title(f)
    
    # Increment the counter
    i = i + 1
    
# Finally, show the figure
plt.show()