Extracting patches of a certain size from the image in python efficiently

Question

I have an image and I want to extract square patches of different sizes from it.

I need dense patches, that is, I need a patch at every pixel in the image.

For example if the image is 100x100 and the patch size is 64.

The result will be 10000 patches of size 64x64

These are the same patches which we use for filtering operations for example.

In case there is a boundary I would like to mirror the image.

What is the most efficient way of extracting patches using python?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you are looking for something like this:

http://scikit-image.org/docs/0.9.x/api/skimage.util.html#view-as-windows