Creating a personalised colouring book from your own photos

colouring_book.py

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from skimage import io
import skimage.color as color
import skimage.segmentation as seg

# Read the image you want to process
image = io.imread('image.png')

# Use simple linear iterative clustering (type of k-means) to construct segmented image
image_slic_result = seg.slic(image, n_segments = 100,
                             compactness = 40.0, max_iter = 30, start_label = 1)

# Take the average color of the regions
image_avg = color.label2rgb(image_slic_result, image, kind='avg', bg_label = 0)

# Make the inner part of each image segment white
edge_width_in_pixels = 10
color_book_image = fill_segments_white(image_avg, edge_width_in_pixels)

# Save the image
io.imsave('colorbook.png', color_book_image)