Re: GSOC project "Improve Octave's image IO"

[Wolfgang]

ok, I will try to rewrite the imtranslate function

Thank you,
Wolfgang

Carnë Draug writes:

> On 22 February 2015 at 14:10, Wolfgang <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> my name is Wolfgang and I am doing my Masters in Mechanical Engineering at 
>> the TU
>> Munich. I would like to start contributing to octave, preferably as
>> part of GSOC, if Octave gets accepted as mentoring organization.
>> Medical Engineering and thus image processing is a part of my
>> studies, so I am very interested in improving octave's image analysis
>> and I think the project "Improve Octave's image IO" fits me the most.
>> I browsed the short projects page and the bug tracker, but I am still 
>> wondering
>> what would be a good starting point for my first changeset. Maybe
>> already something directly related to the handling of image formats?
>>
>
> That will be tough since the main idea of that project is to replace the
> thing with something else.  Also, most of the bugs we have related to that
> are limitations we inherit from GraphicsMagic.
>
> But there are plenty of things you can do about image processing still that
> will start to get you used to Octave.  See for example the list of missing
> functions in the image package [1].  Just pick something that you think you
> can handle and implement it.  The imtranslate function seems simple enough 
> [2].
>
> Carnë
>
> [1] http://wiki.octave.org/Image_package#Missing_functions
> [2] http://uk.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/imtranslate.html