imageio progress

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Almar Klein <almar.klein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Several months ago, I decided to take the code for skimage's freeimage
> plugin (which was originally written by Zach Pincus) and turn it into a
> stand-alone library. I discussed with Zach and a few others how to proceed
> with that, and it seemed that time was a limiting factor for many, so I
> ended up doing most coding on my own.
>
> The project is called imageio <http://imageio.readthedocs.org/> and it is
> now a plugin-based library with a relatively small core. The freeimage
> plugin that started it all currently provides most file formats. Its now at
> a stage where I think the core is pretty much finished, and focus can shift
> towards different plugins for various scientific formats. But I am not
> going to do that alone :)
>
> I could use some help with:
>   * People just trying it out.
>   * People checking the design of the classes<http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/classes.html>and plugin
> system <http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/plugins.html>.
>   * If possible, people checking out the code a bit.
>   * And of course, people writing plugins!
>
> The way I see it, imageio can become a common backend for reading and
> writing images for several libraries (including skimage), or can function
> stand-alone.
>
> Further, I plan on moving it to github to easier attract developers.
>
> Any help and comments is much appreciated,
>

Hi Almar, this looks interesting. I'm not really working with images
anymore, but was tempted to try imageio out anyway. Installation was
smooth, and the 16-bit TIFF image I tried loaded just fine (where PIL still
chokes). So in it's current form I suspect it's already quite useful for
some people.

I haven't looked in enough detail to be able to comment on the
classes/plugin design.

An option to use imageio.imread/imsave (and/or skimage.io.imread/imsave) as
an alternative to PIL from scipy.misc.imread/imshow would make sense to me.

Cheers,
Ralf
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