How to obtain a gaussian filter in python

Question

I am using python to create a gaussian filter of size 5x5. I saw this post here where they talk about a similar thing but I didn\'t find the exact way to get equivalent python c

Answer 1

You could try this too (as product of 2 independent 1D Gaussian random variables) to obtain a 2D Gaussian Kernel:

from numpy import pi, exp, sqrt
s, k = 1, 2 #  generate a (2k+1)x(2k+1) gaussian kernel with mean=0 and sigma = s
probs = [exp(-z*z/(2*s*s))/sqrt(2*pi*s*s) for z in range(-k,k+1)] 
kernel = np.outer(probs, probs)
print kernel

#[[ 0.00291502  0.00792386  0.02153928  0.00792386  0.00291502]
#[ 0.00792386  0.02153928  0.05854983  0.02153928  0.00792386]
#[ 0.02153928  0.05854983  0.15915494  0.05854983  0.02153928]
#[ 0.00792386  0.02153928  0.05854983  0.02153928  0.00792386]
#[ 0.00291502  0.00792386  0.02153928  0.00792386  0.00291502]]

import matplotlib.pylab as plt
plt.imshow(kernel)
plt.colorbar()
plt.show()