fix/scipy_deprecated_funcs

[adamagniv]

I'm using

$ python --version
Python 3.9.7

$ python -m pip show scipy
Name: scipy
Version: 1.7.3
Summary: SciPy: Scientific Library for Python
Home-page: https://www.scipy.org
Author:
Author-email:
License: BSD
Location: c:\users\adama\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages
Requires: numpy
Required-by: scikit-image

in this version scipy has no imresize & imread (deleted in version 1.2.0). instead switched to scikit-image functions.
please check that the functionality stayed the same for you.
also, added gitignore for this python project.