3 Ways of Image Subtraction in Python with NumPy, OpenCV and Pillow Libraries
Introduction
In this post, we will see various ways of doing image subtraction in Python by using NumPy, OpenCV, and Pillow libraries. The subtraction of images may sound a bit strange to beginners but images consist of numeric pixels hence we can perform pixel-wise subtraction between two images.
Subtraction of Images
When one image is subtracted from another it does pixel-wise subtraction where the pixel of the 2nd image is subtracted from the 1st image resulting in a new 3rd image.
Mathematically, when image B is subtracted from image A, the pixel-wise subtraction operation to get the output image C can be represented as follows –
C(x,y) = A(x,y) – B(x,y)
Where,
- A(x,y) represents the pixel value at position (x, y) in the image A.