Re: Non-local means denoising

On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 23:49:29 +1100, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote:

I'm personally very interested, yes! Regarding scikit-image, I'm not sure whether Stéfan would be happy to go down the GPU route (and CUDA more specifically), but my feeling is that a very large chunk of scientific computing is going in that direction, so it would be good to have at least an optional dependency there...

We've considered this before (recall discussions about multiple backends), but in the end found that it is not viable to maintain multiple implementations of the same code (at least not for our small team). I am putting my bets on tools like Numba, Parakeet, etc. to save us from Python's slowness. Stéfan