Mahotas - Template Matching

In this article we will see how we can do template matching in mahotas. Template is basically a part or structure of image. In this tutorial we will use “lena” image, below is the command to load it.
 

mahotas.demos.load('lena')

Below is the lena image 
 

In order to do this we will use mahotas.template_match method
Syntax : mahotas.template_match(img, template)
Argument : It takes image object and template as argument
Return : It returns image object 
 

Note : Input image should be filtered or should be loaded as grey
In order to filter the image we will take the image object which is numpy.ndarray and filter it with the help of indexing, below is the command to do this
 

image = image[:, :, 0]

Below is the implementation 
 

Output :
 

Image

Matched Image

Another example 
 

Output :
 

Image

Matched Image