Loading and processing photos

Let's say you are training a machine learning model to read American sign language images and translate them into text. The first part of this is loading images, and you have a lot of them. Thankfully, Dask can help you load and process these images lazily.

This exercise is part of the course

Parallel Programming with Dask in Python

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Exercise instructions

Import the image subpackage inside dask.array.
Load all of the .jpeg images inside the directory data/asl.
Slice out the zeroth image from the array and use the .compute() method to load it into memory.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import the image subpackage from dask.array
from ____ import ____

# Lazily load in all jpegs inside all subdirectories inside data/asl
image_array = image.____(____)

# Load only the zeroth image into memory
zeroth_image = ____

# Plot the image
plt.imshow(zeroth_image)
plt.show()

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