This snippet will calculate the per-channel image mean and std in the train image set. It is plain simple and may not be efficient for large scale dataset.

calculate_trainset_mean_std.py

"""
in this script, we calculate the image per channel mean and standard
deviation in the training set, do not calculate the statistics on the
whole dataset, as per here http://cs231n.github.io/neural-networks-2/#datapre
"""

import numpy as np
from os import listdir
from os.path import join, isdir
from glob import glob
import cv2
import timeit

# number of channels of the dataset image, 3 for color jpg, 1 for grayscale img
# you need to change it to reflect your dataset
CHANNEL_NUM = 3


def cal_dir_stat(root):
    cls_dirs = [d for d in listdir(root) if isdir(join(root, d))]
    pixel_num = 0 # store all pixel number in the dataset
    channel_sum = np.zeros(CHANNEL_NUM)
    channel_sum_squared = np.zeros(CHANNEL_NUM)

    for idx, d in enumerate(cls_dirs):
        print("#{} class".format(idx))
        im_pths = glob(join(root, d, "*.jpg"))

        for path in im_pths:
            im = cv2.imread(path) # image in M*N*CHANNEL_NUM shape, channel in BGR order
            im = im/255.0
            pixel_num += (im.size/CHANNEL_NUM)
            channel_sum += np.sum(im, axis=(0, 1))
            channel_sum_squared += np.sum(np.square(im), axis=(0, 1))

    bgr_mean = channel_sum / pixel_num
    bgr_std = np.sqrt(channel_sum_squared / pixel_num - np.square(bgr_mean))
    
    # change the format from bgr to rgb
    rgb_mean = list(bgr_mean)[::-1]
    rgb_std = list(bgr_std)[::-1]
    
    return rgb_mean, rgb_std

# The script assumes that under train_root, there are separate directories for each class
# of training images.
train_root = "/hd1/jdhao/firearm-dataset/train/"
start = timeit.default_timer()
mean, std = cal_dir_stat(train_root)
end = timeit.default_timer()
print("elapsed time: {}".format(end-start))
print("mean:{}\nstd:{}".format(mean, std))

@ozym4nd145, Updated the gist, thanks for your suggestion.

@jdhao Thanks a lot for this script.

@jdhao
Thank you very much. This script helps me.

If CHANNEL_NUM = 1, script throws an error because cv2.imread() reads images with 3 channels by default. You can either:

if CHANNEL_NUM == 1:
            im = im[:,:,0]

or use

if CHANNEL_NUM == 1:
            im = cv2.imread(path, cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)

Thanks for your script.

thanks for this :)