def get_image(self):
        """
        Returns:
            ndarray:
                the visualized image of shape (H, W, 3) (RGB) in uint8 type.
                The shape is scaled w.r.t the input image using the given `scale` argument.
        """
        canvas = self.canvas
        s, (width, height) = canvas.print_to_buffer()
        # buf = io.BytesIO()  # works for cairo backend
        # canvas.print_rgba(buf)
        # width, height = self.width, self.height
        # s = buf.getvalue()

        buffer = np.frombuffer(s, dtype="uint8")

        img_rgba = buffer.reshape(height, width, 4)
        rgb, alpha = np.split(img_rgba, [3], axis=2)
        return rgb.astype("uint8")

        Returns:
            ndarray:
                the visualized image of shape (H, W, 3) (RGB) in uint8 type.
                The shape is scaled w.r.t the input image using the given `scale` argument.
        
utils/visualizer.py