[Image-SIG] Image Correction For Colorblind Users

[Oliver Siemoneit]

Hi,

I have finally managed to do some C-extensions for the improved color2gray 
image transformation and the daltonize, see 
http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/EnhanceTransclusionSyntaxForImages for 
image samples and code.

I owe this mainly to Kevin Cazabon, which has already done a very nice 
Gaussian blur and unsharpen filter for PIL, see 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2008-May/005003.html . His code 
served as a basis for my own coding work

This mail is also a reminder / request  to consider making these things part 
of a future PIL release ;-)

Oliver

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oliver Siemoneit" <oliver.siemoneit at philo.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: <image-sig at python.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 6:30 PM
Subject: Image Correction For Colorblind Users


> Hi,
>
> I have implemented two image correction algorithms which probably could 
> make
> images more accessible for people with a color vision defeciency (see for
> some image samples and python code the zip archive attached).
>
> - One algorithm does an optimized color2gray transformation trying to
> preserve more details and thus overcoming the problems of normal 
> color2gray
> transformation
>
> - Another algorithm does some image correction on colored images, 
> something
> like the people on http://www.vischeck.com/daltonize/ do.
>
> Here my questions:
>
> 1.) Is this something for the PIL standard distribution, especially the
> color2gray algorithm?
>
> 2.) My problem is: Both algorithms are very slow. You can't use them 
> really
> on a productive system (e.g. a server where all pictures which have been
> uploaded are automattically transformed). Is there a way to speed this up?
> Is there a way to do some C-Plugin for PIL (I think I cannot optimize the
> pyhton code anymore)? I need a fast and platform independent way to
> transform images with the above algorithms (since I try to get that in the
> Moin Wiki standard distribution, see
> http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/EnhanceTransclusionSyntaxForImages and
> http://moinmo.in/AccessibleMoin)
>
> I would be very happy if I could get some advice how to speed that up 
> and/or
> how to integrate that with PIL. I am not an expert programmer. I'm at my
> wids' end.
>
> And sorry if this mail is a littel bit "off-topic" on this mailing list. 
> But
> I had no idea whom to ask.
>
> Cheers,
> Oliver
>
>