Reading and writing image, sound and npz file formats to and from xtensor data structures.
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Introduction

xtensor-io is an early developer preview, and is not suitable for general usage yet. Features and implementation are subject to change.

xtensor-io offers API of to read and write various file formats into xtensor data structures:

• images,
• audio files,
• NumPy's compressed storage format (NPZ).

xtensor-io wraps the OpenImageIO, libsndfile and zlib libraries.

Installation

xtensor-io is a header-only library. We provide a package for the conda package manager.

conda install xtensor-io -c QuantStack -c conda-forge

• xtensor-io depends on xtensor ^0.15.5.

• OpenImageIO, libsndfile and zlib are optional dependencies to xtensor-io

  • OpenImageIO is required to read and write image files.
  • libsndfile is required to read and write sound files.
  • zlib is required to load NPZ files.

All three libraries are available for the conda package manager.

You can also install xtensor-io from source:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Usage

// loads png image into xarray with shape HEIGHT x WIDTH x CHANNELS
auto arr = xt::load_image("test.png");

// write xarray out to JPEG image
xt::dump_image("dumptest.jpg", arr + 5);

// load npz file containing multiple arrays
auto npy_map = xt::load_npz("test.npz");

auto arr_0 = npy_map["arr_0"].cast<double>();
auto arr_1 = npy_map["arr_1"].cast<unsigned long>();

// open a wav file
auto audio = xt::load_audio("files/xtensor.wav");
auto& arr = std::get<1>(audio); // audio contents (like scipy.io.wavfile results)

// save a sine wave sound
int freq = 2000;
int sampling_freq = 44100;
double duration = 1.0;

auto t = xt::arange(0.0, duration, 1.0 / sampling_freq);
auto y = xt::sin(2.0 * numeric_constants<double>::PI * freq * t);

xt::dump_audio("files/sine.wav", y, sampling_freq);

License

We use a shared copyright model that enables all contributors to maintain the copyright on their contributions.

This software is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license. See the LICENSE file for details.