On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Jaidev Deshpande <deshpande.jaidev@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Tony Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Jaidev Deshpande
> <deshpande.jaidev@gmail.com> wrote:
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> skimage doesn't implement image readers, but instead, uses other i/o
> libraries as plugins (so there's no good way to list image format support).

Out of curiosity, does matplotlib's imread do the same, using other plugins?

I think Matplotlib uses libpng for PNGs and then PIL for everything else. I tried loading a jp2 image with the matplotlib plugin and it raises a PIL error.

> For me, `skimage.io.imread` doesn't read jp2 by default (my default plugin
> is 'PIL'), but I can set the plugin to 'freeimage' to read jp2 images; e.g.
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> from skimage import io
> io.imread('some_image.jp2', plugin='freeimage')
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> which uses freeimage just for that one call or
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> io.use_plugin('freeimage')
> io.imread('some_image.jp2')
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> which changes your default io plugin to freeimage. You'd need to have the
> freeimage library installed on your system to use this plugin:
>
> http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/

Thanks! That did it.