Posted by
Doug S-3 on
Oct 05, 2011; 3:13am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Image-Processing-in-Art-Is-Imagej-the-right-tool-tp3682462p3682464.html
Derin,
I've just started using OpenCV through its python bindings, which
solves some of the issues of using c & c++. If you use c & c++ I guess
you have to be careful to to avoid memory leaks and maybe other
problems. Python is nice, its a pleasure to code in and all the memoty
management is taken care of. Python is a lot like Java but I have found
it easier and faster to to code in in terms of development time. You get
the ease of coding in python but the most expensive computations on
images are done in c/c++, and potentially even on the GPU, making it
faster in terms of the performance of the code as well. I use OpenCV as
part of a larger package called PythonXY which is a scientific computing
platform that runs on Windows. Its an easy Windows install that installs
the main framework and packages like OpenCV that you choose. Whats nice
is that, like Juanjo was talking about, it provides a nice interface,
with an interactive programming environment like MATLAB plus a good GUI
package called Qt, lots of scientific funcitonality already built in
thru numpy/scipy and nice image/histogram or other visualization stuff
built in with matplotlib. I find this interface much easier to work with
than JAVA though JAVA is a step up from using OpenCV in pure c/c++.
PythonXY does not install on Linux, but all the pieces that you would
need: nump/scipy, Qt, matplotlib and OpenCV do install on Linux. All of
these installations are easy except OpenCV, which I have not done yet
myself, but I have found several sets of instructions on how to do it on
the net. You could possibly develop the code on WIndows and end up with
cross platform python code. If you where going to distribute the code to
many linux or mac machines then looking into how the OpenCV install goes
on these platforms would be good idea.
I haven't used Processing before so I can't compare it to PythonXY or
ImageJ.
If you're project was funded and you could afford a little bit of
money to hire me as a undergrad researcher to handle ( all or part of )
the computational side of the project, I might be able to help you out.
I am math student from the Univ of Connecticut and have done independent
study in imaging. I finished my BS and am taking time off for health
reasons and getting ready for doctoral studies and right now I am
looking for part time projects to keep going while officially out of
school. I live in Storrs, CT which is about 2 hours from Boston so
coming in physically now and then is quite possible. If you think this
could be helpful for you or the projects you're working on, don't
hestitate to send me an email, otherwise good luck on your projects and
finding the right platform.
Best,
Doug Snyder
[hidden email]
On 10/2/2011 1:32 PM, Derin Korman wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am a Teaching Assistant at Harvard's Visual and Environmental
> studies and I have several projects that need image processing. They
> mainly revolve around Camera/Image culture, authorship, questions of
> singularity (not the positivist one).
>
> I have no previous programming experience apart from some Actionscript
> and modifying some github projects, I was wondering if you had a
> suggestion as to what language to learn. Processing offers some object
> import functions but I couldn't tell if it would suffice(if it does,
> that's great as it encompasses some libraries that would ease some
> work), ImageJ was recommended to my by Nitin Sampat, C++ naturally has
> various image processing libraries, Matlab I know to be very powerful
> but one might say it is too difficult a hill to climb before I reach
> image processing.
>
> example tasks: averaging 1000+ images, doing subtraction/difference
> calculation, generation of random images, and extracting sequential
> pixels/parts from images and combining them in another
> ([x1,x2,x3][y1,y2,y3][z1,z2,z3] -> [x1,y2,z3])
>
> Best,
> -derin
> Visual and Environmental Studies
> Harvard University