Reading .jp2 in skimage

[Jaidev Deshpande]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Tony Yu <tsyu80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Jaidev Deshpande
> <deshpande.jaidev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Are jpeg 2000 images supported in skimage? I tried looking for it in
>> the docs but didn't find anything.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> JD
>>
>
> Hey JD,
>
> skimage doesn't implement image readers, but instead, uses other i/o
> libraries as plugins (so there's no good way to list image format support).

Out of curiosity, does matplotlib's imread do the same, using other plugins?

> For me, `skimage.io.imread` doesn't read jp2 by default (my default plugin
> is 'PIL'), but I can set the plugin to 'freeimage' to read jp2 images; e.g.
>
>     from skimage import io
>     io.imread('some_image.jp2', plugin='freeimage')
>
> which uses freeimage just for that one call or
>
>     io.use_plugin('freeimage')
>     io.imread('some_image.jp2')
>
> which changes your default io plugin to freeimage. You'd need to have the
> freeimage library installed on your system to use this plugin:
>
>     http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/

Thanks! That did it.

>
> There may be other skimage plugins that support jp2, but I'm not sure.
>
> Best,
> -Tony
>
> --
>
>



-- 
JD