[Image-SIG] new release of vips python, now with windows support

Joao S. O. Bueno gwidion at mpc.com.br
Thu May 7 15:32:16 CEST 2015


That is great, John -

Thanks for the announcement.

(Have you been to the LGM in Toronto this year? I remember watching a VIPS talk
in Montreal a few years ago)


Best regards,

   js
  -><-




On 7 May 2015 at 10:09,  <jcupitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I hope no one minds me mailing this.
>
> I help maintain vips, a free image processing library, and we've just
> released a new version, vips8. This new version has a much better
> Python interface. It supports python2 and python3, and it works on any
> Unix, OS X and Windows. It comes with a large test-suite, written in
> Python, which it passes with no memory leaks.
>
> The speed and memory use varies with the operations you are performing
> but typically it's 5x faster than PIL or Pillow and only needs 1/10th
> of the memory. There's a benchmark here:
>
>   http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Speed_and_Memory_Use
>
> with some sample source code. On that test at least, vips is even
> quicker than OpenCV.
>
> vips is interesting because it's a demand-driven library. Most image
> processing systems load up the input image, perform a series of
> operations one after the other, then write the result back to disk.
> This is simple, but can use huge amounts of memory if the images are
> large.
>
> Instead, vips breaks the image into small chunks and streams it
> through your system. All operations are active at the same time,
> including the load and save operations, and no more of the image is
> kept in memory than is needed for computation. It runs a separate
> pipeline of operations for each core in your computer, so threading is
> efficient.
>
> This page introduces the Python interface:
>
>   http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Python
>
> And this chapter in the manual goes into more detail:
>
>   http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/libvips/using-from-python.html
>
> John
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