How scikit-image is used
scikit-image is a dependency in 6 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 148 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Pillow (238 projects). Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (95.3%), pandas (89.2%), SciPy (89.2%).
scikit-image popularity over time
Gid Score 61: downloads 80, use in agent projects 56, GitHub stars 43, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with scikit-image
| NumPy | 95.3% of scikit-image projects · 16.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| pandas | 89.2% of scikit-image projects · 20.7× more than average |
| SciPy | 89.2% of scikit-image projects · 49.0× more than average |
| Pillow | 87.8% of scikit-image projects · 22.9× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 85.8% of scikit-image projects · 31.9× more than average |
| scikit-learn | 85.8% of scikit-image projects · 40.1× more than average |
| PyYAML | 83.1% of scikit-image projects · 14.0× more than average |
| Requests | 82.4% of scikit-image projects · 12.1× more than average |
From all 148 projects in our scan that use scikit-image, including the dependency samples.
How scikit-image is funded
Open Collective: scikit-image
| Received, last 12 months | $1,246 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $1,256 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $8,150 |
| Raised since the start | $16,925 · $8,775 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $9 · $9 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +919% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $9,461 since Nov 2023 |
|---|
May 2022Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in May 2022. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Ways to fund scikit-image
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install scikit-image |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (147), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | Mirix-AI/MIRIX, rsanshierli/EasyBert, Luffy03/Large-Scale-Medical, ericshang98/Perfect-Web-Clone, facebookresearch/aira-dojo |
Alternatives to scikit-image
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside scikit-image are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pillow pypi Python imaging library for image processing, manipulation and conversion. |
82 | 238 (14.7%) | 137M | 13.9K | MIT-CMU |
| OpenCV Python pypi Python bindings for OpenCV computer vision library for image/video processing. |
65 | 45 (2.8%) | 8M | 5,429 | Apache-2.0 |
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