Image to matrix?

[achiever]

Hello everyone!

How can I convert an Image to a matrix of rank 2?

I tried doing it using array:
a = numpy.asarray(i mg)
but it gives a matrix of rank 3, whereas I need a rank 2 matrix as output.

Hope to get some help on this.

Thank you.

[Glenton]

Have you looked at the PIL?

What would you expect to be in this matrix?

[achiever]

yes, I've been working on PIL, couldn't find anything for this problem.

I actually want to apply PCA using MDP on the images, and the input data format for MDP is required as matrix of rank 2.