Enquiring about companies that rely on scikit-image

[Emmanuelle Gouillart]

Hi Kevin,

thank you for your question and sorry you didn't get an answer earlier.
Most users (and developers) of scikit-image that I know of work in
research labs rather than in companies. I also know a few users in
national labs (such as synchrotron facilities, for example). 

I would be very interested in hearing from readers of the mailing-list
working outside of academia: are you using scikit-image for your work? If
yes, what do you like and do not like about the package, and if not, what
keeps you from using scikit-image? 

A big difference with scikit-learn is that scikit-learn was the first
comprehensive and successful Python package for machine learning, whereas
other image processing solutions already existed for Python. In
particular, openCV is an excellent package for computer vision, with
good python bindings and numpy compatibility. In comparison, some of the
strengths of scikit-image are its very simple and readable API (functions
taking as input numpy arrays and optional parameters as keyword
arguments) and its compatibility with 2D and 3D images. The
documentation is also getting pretty good, with the example gallery that
is a great tool for beginners (and others) to get started. 

Also, machine learning is a more recent (and more rapidly growing) field
than image processing, so that there is more "legacy" in the image
processing field. Whereas it was easier for machine learning users to
start with new technologies (Python and scikit-learn), a lot of labs
have developed image processing tools in C/C++/matlab and are reluctant
to switch to a new language.

But I'm sure that some companies are using scikit-image for their data
processing workflow. It would be very nice to hear from them (shall we
tweet about this?), in order to get feedback and maybe to set up a page
like the one of scikit-learn.

Any other thoughts from the mailing-list?
Cheers,
Emmanuelle

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 07:58:32PM +0100, 'Kevin Keraudren' via scikit-image wrote:
> Hi,

> I just came back from PyData London, which was a great experience. I thought I
> would see a bit more image processing outside of an academic context, but Lyst
> is the only one I noticed.

> I was surprised by the success of scikit-learn outside of academia [1], and I
> was wondering if people on the mailing list were aware of companies that would
> similarly rely on scikit-image?

> Kind Regards,

> Kevin


> [1] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/testimonials/testimonials.html