python - Increase DPI of Matplotlib .show() in Jupyter Notebook

Question

I'm using Matplotlib in a Jupyter Notebook to display an image of a map. The code looks like this:

%matplotlib inline

imgpath = './map.png'

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
import numpy as np

from PIL import Image

img = Image.open(imgpath)
print(img.size)

width, height = img.size
# img.thumbnail((width * 2,height * 2), Image.ANTIALIAS)  # resizes image in-place
imgplot = plt.imshow(img)
plt.savefig('test.png', dpi = 300)

The problem is, although the plt.savefig('test.png', dpi = 300) looks fine (because I changed the dpi to 300), the image displayed in the notebook is so low resolution I can't make anything out on it, and plt.imshow(img, dpi = 300) doesn't work:

So what I'm wondering is if there is a way to change the resolution of the image shown in the Jupyter Notebook?

Answer 1

Add this at the beginning of the notebook:

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 300

That's it !