mlpack_image_converter(1)

💖 mlpack_image_converter(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the mlpack_image_converter manual page — it's giving image converter, and it's literally the cutest little utility for turning images into matrices and matrices back into images. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

mlpack_image_converter — image converter 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mlpack_image_converter -i vector [-c int] [-I unknown] [-H int] [-q int] [-s bool] [-V bool] [-w int] [-o unknown] [-h -v]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the way this works is: this utility takes an image or an array of images and loads them into a matrix. slay. 💅

you can optionally tell it the height --height (-H), the width --width (-w), and the channel --channels (-c) of the images that need to be loaded — but if you don't? no worries, bestie, those parameters get automatically detected from the image. main character energy fr fr. ✨

there are other options too that you can specify, like --quality (-q). obsessed.

you can also hand it a dataset and save them as images using --dataset_file (-I) and --save (-s) as a parameter. 🫶

an example to load an image:

$ mlpack_image_converter --input X --height 256 --width 256 --channels 3
--output_file Y.csv

an example to save an image is:

$ mlpack_image_converter --input X --height 256 --width 256 --channels 3
--dataset_file Y.csv --save

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✨ REQUIRED INPUT OPTIONS ✨

• --input (-i) [vector] — image filenames which have to be loaded/saved. yes queen, this one is required, you can't skip it. 🌸

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✨ OPTIONAL INPUT OPTIONS ✨

• --channels (-c) [int] — number of channels in the image. default value 0.
• --dataset_file (-I) [unknown] — input matrix to save as images.
• --height (-H) [int] — height of the images. default value 0.
• --help (-h) [bool] — default help info.
• --info [string] — print help on a specific option. default value ''.
• --quality (-q) [int] — compression of the image if saved as jpg (0-100). default value 90.
• --save (-s) [bool] — save a dataset as images.
• --verbose (-v) [bool] — display informational messages and the full list of parameters and timers at the end of execution.
• --version (-V) [bool] — display the version of mlpack.
• --width (-w) [int] — width of the image. default value 0.

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✨ OPTIONAL OUTPUT OPTIONS ✨

• --output_file (-o) [unknown] — matrix to save images data to, only needed if you are specifying the save option. 💖

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✨ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ✨

for further information, including relevant papers, citations, and theory, consult the documentation found at http://www.mlpack.org or included with your distribution of mlpack. 🧚

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ngl bestie, if you're ever confused, just peep the docs at mlpack.org — they ate. 👑

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and that's a wrap on the mlpack-4.8.0 edition of this page, dated 22 June 2026 💜 — mlpack_image_converter(1), periodt. go convert something iconic. 🌈⭐