The image (test.tif) is attached.
The np.nan values are the whitest region.
How to fill those whitest region using some gap filling algorithms that uses values from the neighbours?
import scipy.ndimage
data = ndimage.imread('test.tif')
解决方案
I think viena's question is more related to an inpainting problem.
Here are some ideas:
In order to fill the gaps in B/W images you can use some filling algorithm like scipy.ndimage.morphology.binary_fill_holes. But you have a gray level image, so you can't use it.
I suppose that you don't want to use a complex inpainting algorithm. My first suggestion is: Don't try to use Nearest gray value (you don't know the real value of the NaN pixels). Using the NEarest value will generate a dirty algorithm. Instead, I would suggest you to fill the gaps with some other value (e.g. the mean of the row). You can do it without coding by using scikit-learn:
>>> from sklearn.preprocessing import Imputer
>>> imp = Imputer(strategy="mean")
>>> a = np.random.random((5,5))
>>> a[(1,4,0,3),(2,4,2,0)] = np.nan
>>> a
array([[ 0.77473361, 0.62987193, nan, 0.11367791, 0.17633671],
[ 0.68555944, 0.54680378, nan, 0.64186838, 0.15563309],
[ 0.37784422, 0.59678177, 0.08103329, 0.60760487, 0.65288022],
[ nan, 0.54097945, 0.30680838, 0.82303869, 0.22784574],
[ 0.21223024, 0.06426663, 0.34254093, 0.22115931, nan]])
>>> a = imp.fit_transform(a)
>>> a
array([[ 0.77473361, 0.62987193, 0.24346087, 0.11367791, 0.17633671],
[ 0.68555944, 0.54680378, 0.24346087, 0.64186838, 0.15563309],
[ 0.37784422, 0.59678177, 0.08103329, 0.60760487, 0.65288022],
[ 0.51259188, 0.54097945, 0.30680838, 0.82303869, 0.22784574],
[ 0.21223024, 0.06426663, 0.34254093, 0.22115931, 0.30317394]])
The dirty solution that uses the Nearest values can be this:
1) Find the perimeter points of the NaN regions
2) Compute all the distances between the NaN points and the perimeter
3) Replace the NaNs with the nearest's point gray value