using skimage to replace scipy.misc.imread

Question

There is a code segment using scipy.misc to read image

from scipy import misc
im = misc.imread(self.file_image, True)

I would like to know, are there any functions in scikit-image that can replace the above code with the same output.

Answer 1

This is how you do it in scikit-image.

from skimage import io
im = io.imread(self.file_image)

However, according to scipy's documentation "imread is deprecated! imread is deprecated in SciPy 1.0.0, and will be removed in 1.2.0. Use imageio.imread instead."

So the better option is to use imageio to read images. You can install imageio if not already installed by using pip install imageio