Filterbank code

[Stéfan van der Walt]

Hey Andy

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Andreas Mueller
<amueller at ais.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> There is no wavelet filter bank in skimage, is there?
> I guess it would be easy enough to do with scipy, though.

No, but I recently saw some activity at:

https://github.com/nigma/pywt
http://www.pybytes.com/pywavelets/

> By the way, you mentioned you are interested in matting.
> I'm working on the alphamatting.com dataset this week :)

Ah, fantastic!  Are you implementing their paper?

> OT: Sorry for not finishing up my segmentation PR.
> It is quite mature but I wanted to compare it to the standard
> implementations. But for that I need Lab color space conversions,
> which I didn't get around doing yet.

I'll add Lab color space conversion to the todo list for Friday's SciPy sprint.

Stéfan