GaussianBlur does not work with I;16

What did you do?

Attempted to use Image.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR) on an image of mode I or I;16

What did you expect to happen?

Image is blurred

What actually happened?

Code throws ValueError

What are your OS, Python and Pillow versions?

OS: Windows 10 Home
Python: 3.10.1
Pillow: 9.2.0

>>> from tkinter import filedialog
>>> from PIL import Image, ImageFilter
>>> image1 = Image.open(filedialog.askopenfilename())
>>> image1
   <PIL.BmpImagePlugin.BmpImageFile image mode=RGB size=630x514 at 0x28B7051E9B0>
>>> image2 = image1.convert('I')
>>> image2
   <PIL.Image.Image image mode=I size=630x514 at 0x28B70A8E560>
>>> image1.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR).show()
>>> image2.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR).show()
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "<pyshell#56>", line 1, in <module>
       image2.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR).show()
     File "C:\Users\x\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1247, in filter
       return self._new(filter.filter(self.im))
     File "C:\Users\x\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFilter.py", line 32, in filter
       return image.filter(*self.filterargs)
   ValueError: image has wrong mode

Just an explanation from the code.

Pillow/src/libImaging/Filter.c

Lines 326 to 332 in 1f5be89

    
           ImagingFilter(Imaging im, int xsize, int ysize, const FLOAT32 *kernel, FLOAT32 offset) { 
        
               Imaging imOut; 
        
               ImagingSectionCookie cookie; 
        
               if (!im || im->type != IMAGING_TYPE_UINT8) { 
        
                   return (Imaging)ImagingError_ModeError(); 
        
               }

means that it doesn't support I, I;*, F or BGR;*.

PR #7108 has been merged, fixing this for I mode.

Hi!
When I use ImageFilter to performs a look-up table (LUT) transform on an image of mode I or I;16,

File ".../PIL/ImageFilter.py", line 560, in filter
    return image.color_lut_3d(
ValueError: image has wrong mode

still occurred.

I found that I mode has been supported for BuiltinFilter but still not supported for Color3DLUT.
Related code:
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/main/src/libImaging/ColorLUT.c#L89-L92

Would mode I be supported for Color3DLUT in the future?

I don't see how a function that "transforms 3-channel pixels" applies to a 1 channel image.

Could you describe in more detail what you are trying to do?

Thanks for your reply.

I'm sorry, I misunderstood.
I thought mode I supported 3-channel 32-bit images, however it only supports 1-channel.

I am trying to perform a look-up table (LUT) transform on heif images which are in 10-bit & 3-channel.
Now I find that Pillow only supports 8-bit color depth for 3-channel images (<- Am I right?), so the only way is to convert the 10-bit images to 8-bit in advance, even though it will reduce the amount of color information.

Now I find that Pillow only supports 8-bit color depth for 3-channel images

Yes, see #1888

so the only way is to convert the 10-bit images to 8-bit in advance, even though it will reduce the amount of color information.

If your goal is to use the final image with Pillow, then yes.
If your goal is to use the final image with something else, then I suppose you would split 10-bit 3-channel images to 3 10-bit 1-channel images in advance, then use Pillow to handle the LUT, and then merge the images again outside of Pillow.

If your goal is to use the final image with something else, then I suppose you would split 10-bit 3-channel images to 3 10-bit 1-channel images in advance, then use Pillow to handle the LUT, and then merge the images again outside of Pillow.

Oh! Thanks for your suggestion!

split 10-bit 3-channel images to 3 10-bit 1-channel images in advance, then use Pillow to handle the LUT

Again, this wouldn't 3D LUT, this will be three 1D LUTs.

Still does not work on I;16
Also does not work with gaussian blur filters

#8438 has been merged to support I;16 modes with ImageFilter.BLUR. Pillow 11 is due to be released in a week with this feature.

@radarhere

@radarhere I think this can be closed, since Pillow 11 was released a while ago. #9760 will speed up #8438 though.

I don't think so, because GaussianBlur still isn't supported.

>>> from PIL import Image, ImageFilter
>>> im = Image.new("I;16", (1, 1))
>>> im.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "IL/Image.py", line 1458, in filter
    return self._new(filter.filter(self.im))
  File "PIL/ImageFilter.py", line 206, in filter
    return image.gaussian_blur(xy)
ValueError: image has wrong mode

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	ImagingFilter(Imaging im, int xsize, int ysize, const FLOAT32 *kernel, FLOAT32 offset) {
	Imaging imOut;
	ImagingSectionCookie cookie;

	if (!im \|\| im->type != IMAGING_TYPE_UINT8) {
	return (Imaging)ImagingError_ModeError();
	}

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