python get image average color all pixels code example
Example: find most used colors in image python
from __future__ import print_function
import binascii
import struct
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
import scipy
import scipy.misc
import scipy.cluster
NUM_CLUSTERS = 5
print('reading image')
im = Image.open('image.jpg')
im = im.resize((150, 150))
ar = np.asarray(im)
shape = ar.shape
ar = ar.reshape(np.product(shape[:2]), shape[2]).astype(float)
print('finding clusters')
codes, dist = scipy.cluster.vq.kmeans(ar, NUM_CLUSTERS)
print('cluster centres:\n', codes)
vecs, dist = scipy.cluster.vq.vq(ar, codes)
counts, bins = np.histogram(vecs, len(codes))
index_max = np.argmax(counts)
peak = codes[index_max]
colour = binascii.hexlify(bytearray(int(c) for c in peak)).decode('ascii')
print('most frequent is %s (#%s)' % (peak, colour))