I just made a function blocproc to do this. I'll add a pull request later today. It works in a similar way as the matlab feature. 



On Sunday, September 1, 2013 5:37:22 AM UTC-4, Johannes Schönberger wrote:
Yes that should be very useful. Nevertheless, I think a function like Matlab's blockproc would be a really good addition.

Am 01.09.2013 um 11:34 schrieb Stéfan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za>:

> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Johannes Schönberger <js...@demuc.de> wrote:
>> - pad image with skimage.util.pad, which allows a large number of padding methods
>> - spawn a pool of processes using Python's multiprocessing package in the standard library
>> - use shared memory to provide read access to complete image
>> - define slices of image blocks and add them to a processing queue
>
> How about we add an `overlap` parameter to
> `skimage.utill.view_as_windows`?  That should solve this problem.
>
> Stéfan
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