What is the correct way to change image channel ordering between channels first and channels last?

Question

I can not for the life of me figure out how to switch the image ordering. images are read in (x,x,3) format, theano requires it to be in (3,x,x) format. I tried changing the ord

Answer 1

Using np.moveaxis is effective, but I have found that np.einsum is much faster.

x = np.zeros((12,12,3))
%timeit np.moveaxis(x,-1,0)
#yields 7.46 µs ± 312 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)

%timeit np.einsum('ijk->kij',x)
#yields 1.11 µs ± 31 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)