Question

i have an error at this line:neigh.fit(X, y) :
ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.

I checked fit function and X is: {array-like, sparse matrix, BallTree, cKDTree}
My X is a list of list with first element solidity number and second elemnt humoment list (7 cells).
If i change and i take only first humoment number for having a pure list of list
give this error: query data dimension must match BallTree data dimension.

My code:

listafeaturevector = list()
path = 'imgknn/'
for infile in glob.glob( os.path.join(path, '*.jpg') ):
    print("current file is: " + infile )
    gray = cv2.imread(infile,0)
    element = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_CROSS,(6,6)) 
    graydilate = cv2.erode(gray, element)
    ret,thresh = cv2.threshold(graydilate,127,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV) 
    imgbnbin = thresh

    #CONTOURS
    contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(imgbnbin, cv2.RETR_TREE ,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
    print(len(contours))

    for i in range (0, len(contours)):
        fv = list()  #1 feature vector

        #HUMOMENTS
        #print("humoments")
        mom = cv2.moments(contours[i], 1)  
        Humoments = cv2.HuMoments(mom)
        #print(Humoments) 
        fv.append(Humoments) #query data dimension must match BallTree data dimension

        #SOLIDITY

        area = cv2.contourArea(contours[i])
        hull = cv2.convexHull(contours[i]) #ha tanti valori
        hull_area = cv2.contourArea(hull)
        solidity = float(area)/hull_area
        fv.append(solidity)

        #fv.append(elongation)
        listafeaturevector.append(fv)

print("i have done")
print(len(listafeaturevector))
lenmatrice=len(listafeaturevector)

#KNN
X = listafeaturevector
y = [0,1,2,3]* (lenmatrice/4)

from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
neigh = KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors=3)
neigh.fit(X, y)  #ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.

print(neigh.predict([[1.1]]))
print(neigh.predict_proba([[0.9]]))

If i try to covert it in a numpy array:

listafv = np.dstack(listafeaturevector)
listafv=np.rollaxis(listafv,-1)
print(listafv.shape)
data = listafv.reshape((lenmatrice, -1))
print(data.shape)

#KNN

X = data

i got: setting an array element with a sequence

Answer 1

A couple of suggestions/questions:

Humoments = cv2.HuMoments(mom)

What is the class of the return value Humoments? a float or a list? If float, that is fine.

for each image file
    for i in range (0, len(contours)):
       fv = list()  #1 feature vector
       ...
       fv.append(Humoments) 
       ...
       fv.append(solidity)
       listafeaturevector.append(fv)

The above code does not seem correct. In your problem, I think you need to a construct a feature vector for each image. So anything that is related to image i should go to the same feature vector x_i. Then you combine all feature vectors to get a list of feature vectors X. However, your listafeaturevector (or X) presents in the inner-most loop, it’s obviously not correct.

Second, you have a loop against the number of elements in the contours, are you sure the number of elements stays the same for each image? Otherwise, the number of features (|x_i|) is totally different across different images, that might cause the error of

setting an array element with a sequence.

Third, are you clear about how you want to classify the images? what are the target values/labels of different images? I see you just setting labels with [0,1,2,3]* (lenmatrice/4). Can you elaborate on what you are trying to do with those images? Are they containing different type of object? Are they showing different patterns? Are those images describe different topic/color? If yes, for each different type, you give a different label – either 0,1,2 or ‘red’,’white’,’black’ (assume you have only 3 types). The values of the label do not matter. What matters is how many values they have. I am trying to understand the difference of labels in your case.

On the other hand, if you only want to retrieve similar images, you don’t need to use a classifier or specify a label for each image. Instead, try to use NearestNeighbors.

print(neigh.predict([[1.1]]))
print(neigh.predict_proba([[0.9]]))

Fourth, the above two lines of test are not correct. You need to set an X-like object in order to get a prediction from the classifier. That is to say, you need a feature vector x with the identical structure as you constructed in your training examples (with all h,e,s in the same order).