Thanks and Introduction

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I'd like to thank all the developers and users that have contributed
to ImageJ. I'd especially like to thank Werner Bailer for the "Writing
ImageJ Plugins - A Tutorial" document, which has been very helpful.

I'm one of the programmers for OpenJUMP, an open source GIS program
focused mostly on the creation and manipulation of vector data. I'm
excited about the potential of using ImageJ for raster operations in
GIS, and also for "soft" photogrammetry. I'm going to start work on a
plug-in that creates a world file for an image based on two (2) pixels
selected from an image for which the user has real-world coordinates.
Before I do this I thought I'd ask if any other ImageJ programmers
and/or users have done anything similar. I don't want to reinvent the
wheel.

Is there a separate mailing list for ImageJ programmers and/or users
especially interested in geospatial plug-ins for ImageJ? Has anyone
work on feature extraction plug-ins?

Thanks again for the great program. I'm very excited about it.

The Sunburned Surveyor

[Stephan Saalfeld]

Hi Surveyor,

we implemented SIFT and MOPS-like feature extraction as ImageJ plugins.
You can download and use what we currently have from the Fiji-project:

http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=fiji.git;a=blob;f=precompiled/mpicbg_.jar

and browse the sources here:

http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=mpicbg.git;a=tree

An explanation of the parameters is here:

http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/Feature_Extraction

Since the code is very much historically grown, expect a much simpler
interface to it in the next release which is planned to appear in
November.

I assume that this is probably not the kind of features that you are
looking for.  Anyway---they can be used for fully automatic mosaicking
aerial photographs or to map close-ups into overview images.

You might also be interested in TrakEM2 by Albert Cardona

http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/TrakEM2

and a web-view to a data set created with it

http://fly.mpi-cbg.de/?pid=10&zp=540&yp=36393.9626&xp=52593.3364&sid0=10&s0=1

since handling gigantic microscopy data sets is very much related to
GIS.

Best regards,
Stephan

P.S.: I wish your sunbrand is not too serious ;)


On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 12:02 -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:

> I'd like to thank all the developers and users that have contributed
> to ImageJ. I'd especially like to thank Werner Bailer for the "Writing
> ImageJ Plugins - A Tutorial" document, which has been very helpful.
>
> I'm one of the programmers for OpenJUMP, an open source GIS program
> focused mostly on the creation and manipulation of vector data. I'm
> excited about the potential of using ImageJ for raster operations in
> GIS, and also for "soft" photogrammetry. I'm going to start work on a
> plug-in that creates a world file for an image based on two (2) pixels
> selected from an image for which the user has real-world coordinates.
> Before I do this I thought I'd ask if any other ImageJ programmers
> and/or users have done anything similar. I don't want to reinvent the
> wheel.
>
> Is there a separate mailing list for ImageJ programmers and/or users
> especially interested in geospatial plug-ins for ImageJ? Has anyone
> work on feature extraction plug-ins?
>
> Thanks again for the great program. I'm very excited about it.
>
> The Sunburned Surveyor

[Shawn Mikula-2]

hi Surveyor,

for a very lightweight and fast web viewer of massive bitmapped images, see
http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=brain-maps-api , which features an  image
viewer coded with optimized javascript/dHTML for massive multiresolution
images, like what you would see for Google Maps.  The code is open-source
and should be easy to modify to suit your particular purpose.

Good luck.

Shawn  




----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Saalfeld" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: Thanks and Introduction


> Hi Surveyor,
>
> we implemented SIFT and MOPS-like feature extraction as ImageJ plugins.
> You can download and use what we currently have from the Fiji-project:
>
>
http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=fiji.git;a=blob;f=precompiled/mpicbg_.jar

>
> and browse the sources here:
>
> http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=mpicbg.git;a=tree
>
> An explanation of the parameters is here:
>
> http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/Feature_Extraction
>
> Since the code is very much historically grown, expect a much simpler
> interface to it in the next release which is planned to appear in
> November.
>
> I assume that this is probably not the kind of features that you are
> looking for.  Anyway---they can be used for fully automatic mosaicking
> aerial photographs or to map close-ups into overview images.
>
> You might also be interested in TrakEM2 by Albert Cardona
>
> http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/TrakEM2
>
> and a web-view to a data set created with it
>
> http://fly.mpi-cbg.de/?pid=10&zp=540&yp=36393.9626&xp=52593.3364&sid0=10&s0=1
>
> since handling gigantic microscopy data sets is very much related to
> GIS.
>
> Best regards,
> Stephan
>
> P.S.: I wish your sunbrand is not too serious ;)
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 12:02 -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>> I'd like to thank all the developers and users that have contributed
>> to ImageJ. I'd especially like to thank Werner Bailer for the "Writing
>> ImageJ Plugins - A Tutorial" document, which has been very helpful.
>>
>> I'm one of the programmers for OpenJUMP, an open source GIS program
>> focused mostly on the creation and manipulation of vector data. I'm
>> excited about the potential of using ImageJ for raster operations in
>> GIS, and also for "soft" photogrammetry. I'm going to start work on a
>> plug-in that creates a world file for an image based on two (2) pixels
>> selected from an image for which the user has real-world coordinates.
>> Before I do this I thought I'd ask if any other ImageJ programmers
>> and/or users have done anything similar. I don't want to reinvent the
>> wheel.
>>
>> Is there a separate mailing list for ImageJ programmers and/or users
>> especially interested in geospatial plug-ins for ImageJ? Has anyone
>> work on feature extraction plug-ins?
>>
>> Thanks again for the great program. I'm very excited about it.
>>
>> The Sunburned Surveyor