[scikit-image] Fast Radial Symmetry Transform

[Juan Nunez-Iglesias]

Hi Alex! Thanks for writing and welcome!

I hate to be discouraging, but from my perspective, I would be cautious about accepting this in scikit-image. My initial reaction to your email was very positive, but after a cursory skim of the paper I thought that it seemed like a pretty complicated algorithm, and most of the highly cited citations were survey papers, rather than cool applications.

This isn’t a straight no, just that I would want to see a recent, complete application of the algorithm that I would find compelling enough. Then we could turn that into a gallery example, which would point users to this algorithm. Otherwise, I fear that it would languish and struggle to find future maintainers. There are a couple of parts of the library like this already, and they are a significant burden.

I’m just one person though, and feel free to try to convince me otherwise!

Juan.



> On 3 Jul 2018, at 12:08 pm, Alexander Magsam <Alexmagsam at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am new to this mailing list and would like to contribute the Fast Radial Symmetry Transform algorithm described in this paper:
>  
> Loy, Gareth, and Alexander Zelinsky. "Fast radial symmetry for detecting points of interest." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence 8 (2003): 959-973
> 
> This paper has over 600 citations, and I could not find this implemented with any image processing libraries. I have Python and Cython code I can contribute if this of interest to any of the other members. I will have to make some modifications to meet guidelines, but wanted to see initial thoughts from other members first. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
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