Sobel filter kernel of large size

Question

I am using a sobel filter of size 3x3 to calculate the image derivative. Looking at some articles on the internet, it seems that kernels for sobel filter for size 5x5 and 7x

Answer 1

Here is a simple solution made with python 3 using numpy and the @Daniel answer.

def custom_sobel(shape, axis):
    """
    shape must be odd: eg. (5,5)
    axis is the direction, with 0 to positive x and 1 to positive y
    """
    k = np.zeros(shape)
    p = [(j,i) for j in range(shape[0]) 
           for i in range(shape[1]) 
           if not (i == (shape[1] -1)/2. and j == (shape[0] -1)/2.)]

    for j, i in p:
        j_ = int(j - (shape[0] -1)/2.)
        i_ = int(i - (shape[1] -1)/2.)
        k[j,i] = (i_ if axis==0 else j_)/float(i_*i_ + j_*j_)
    return k

It returns the kernel (5,5) like this:

Sobel x:
   [[-0.25 -0.2   0.    0.2   0.25]
    [-0.4  -0.5   0.    0.5   0.4 ]
    [-0.5  -1.    0.    1.    0.5 ]
    [-0.4  -0.5   0.    0.5   0.4 ]
    [-0.25 -0.2   0.    0.2   0.25]]


Sobel y:
   [[-0.25 -0.4  -0.5  -0.4  -0.25]
    [-0.2  -0.5  -1.   -0.5  -0.2 ]
    [ 0.    0.    0.    0.    0.  ]
    [ 0.2   0.5   1.    0.5   0.2 ]
    [ 0.25  0.4   0.5   0.4   0.25]]

If anyone know a better way to do that in python, please let me know. I'm a newbie yet ;)