Imagej 1.48 - Java heap space error - unable to load high resolution images

Posted by sharanbabuk on Oct 04, 2014; 1:51am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Imagej-1-48-Java-heap-space-error-unable-to-load-high-resolution-images-tp5009900.html

I'm working on ImageJ 1.48V and I received below error while I was trying to open high resolution images with it. Image size was approximately 500mb with 21600 x 21600 dimension. I'm not sure if i need to increase any heap size to bypass this error.
Any help would be appreciated.


Error:
        at java.awt.image.DataBufferByte.<init>(DataBufferByte.java:58)
        at java.awt.image.ComponentSampleModel.createDataBuffer(ComponentSampleModel.java:397)
        at java.awt.image.Raster.createWritableRaster(Raster.java:938)
        at javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier.createBufferedImage(ImageTypeSpecifier.java:1056)
        at javax.imageio.ImageReader.getDestination(ImageReader.java:2879)
        at com.sun.imageio.plugins.png.PNGImageReader.readImage(PNGImageReader.java:1263)
        at com.sun.imageio.plugins.png.PNGImageReader.read(PNGImageReader.java:1560)
        at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1422)
        at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1282)
        at ij.io.Opener.openUsingImageIO(Opener.java:595)
        at ij.io.Opener.openImage(Opener.java:298)
        at ij.io.Opener.openImage(Opener.java:334)
        at ij.io.Opener.open(Opener.java:144)
        at ij.io.Opener.openAndAddToRecent(Opener.java:247)
        at ij.plugin.DragAndDrop.openFile(DragAndDrop.java:176)
        at ij.plugin.DragAndDrop.run(DragAndDrop.java:152)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)