ideas for contributions

[Gary Ruben]

Hi Damian,

The code is accessible via a link on Luís Pedro Coelho's site, but the 
documentation is hosted by the original authors. To be precise, the 
source is here:
http://luispedro.org/files/pymorph-0.91.1.tar.gz
He says this further down also:
"Most of the documentation in the original documentation is still valid, 
except that I removed the mm prefix from function names..."
"I also changed other small things, including removing some functions 
which were superfluous. See the CHANGES_SINCE_08 file in the distribution."

It looks to me like it's purely dependent on numpy and a couple of 
standard Python modules. Perhaps it could actually be sped up by making 
ndimage a dependency and simply replacing a few of the functions in 
terms of ndimage ones.

Gary

Damian Eads wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Sorry for the delayed response. I've been traveling a bit and my
> connectivity has been pretty intermittent.
> 
> 2009/9/25 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>:
>> 2009/9/25 Gary Ruben <gary.ruben at gmail.com>:
>>> You may already know this, but pymorph is BSD licensed and may be a
>>> good starting point for incorporating morphological functions:
>>> http://luispedro.org/pymorph/
>> Damian has been working on morphological operators during the sprint,
>> so I'll ask him to compare pymorph to the work he has done so far.  It
>> looks like pymorph pretty much covers all the Matlab functionality?
> 
> Very interesting. pymorph is a huge library that covers a large space
> of mathematical morphology algorithms. I searched around google,
> sourceforge, and their project website, and I've been unable to find
> their source code to see exactly what it depends on and how it might
> be integrated into scikits.image. They only have a windows release of
> their code so I'm unable at the moment to try some benchmarks on my
> Linux machine. The API should definitely be changed: the function
> names are too short and every function begins with mm rather than
> using a module name to encapsulate. LIBCVD supports highly optimized,
> basic morphology but not the full space of algorithms provided by
> pymorph.
> 
> Damian