tf.image.central_crop

Crop the central region of the image(s).

tf.image.central_crop(
    image, central_fraction
)

Used in the notebooks

Used in the tutorials

Remove the outer parts of an image but retain the central region of the image along each dimension. If we specify central_fraction = 0.5, this function returns the region marked with "X" in the below diagram. The larger the value of central_fraction, the larger the dimension of the region to be cropped and retained.

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|        |
|  XXXX  |
|  XXXX  |
|        |   where "X" is the central 50% of the image.
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This function works on either a single image (image is a 3-D Tensor), or a batch of images (image is a 4-D Tensor).

Usage Example:

x = [[[1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
      [4.0, 5.0, 6.0],
      [7.0, 8.0, 9.0],
      [10.0, 11.0, 12.0]],
    [[13.0, 14.0, 15.0],
      [16.0, 17.0, 18.0],
      [19.0, 20.0, 21.0],
      [22.0, 23.0, 24.0]],
    [[25.0, 26.0, 27.0],
      [28.0, 29.0, 30.0],
      [31.0, 32.0, 33.0],
      [34.0, 35.0, 36.0]],
    [[37.0, 38.0, 39.0],
      [40.0, 41.0, 42.0],
      [43.0, 44.0, 45.0],
      [46.0, 47.0, 48.0]]]
tf.image.central_crop(x, 0.5)
<tf.Tensor: shape=(2, 2, 3), dtype=float32, numpy=
array([[[16., 17., 18.],
        [19., 20., 21.]],
       [[28., 29., 30.],
        [31., 32., 33.]]], dtype=float32)>

image Either a 3-D float Tensor of shape [height, width, depth], or a 4-D Tensor of shape [batch_size, height, width, depth].
central_fraction float (0, 1], fraction of size to crop

ValueError if central_crop_fraction is not within (0, 1].

3-D / 4-D float Tensor, as per the input.