eLynx Image Processing SDK and Lab / News: Recent posts

New package of code sources for eLynx SDK v2.6.
Adding midtone filter to eLynx Lab v1.1.0.

Improve performance for AHD,
New "Hybrid color filter array demosaicking for effective artifact suppression" by LanLan Chang and Yap-Peng Tan,
New "Edge-Adaptive color reconstruction for single-sensor digital camera" by Xiaomeng Wang, Weisi Lin and Ping Xue.

Fixes of AHD demosaicing algorithm.
"High-quality linear interpolation" by Malvar, He and Cutler has been added.
Now you can adjust brightness, constrast and gamma correction with Bayer images.

Fixes of demosaicing algorithms Cok and AHD (Adaptive homogeneity-directed).
Ron Kimmel's implementation added.
Now you can directly convert raw files to RGB at loading.

New installation. Correct bug when you have installed eLynx lab and astRaw with none compatible libraries.
Now eLynx lab and astRaw do no more share libraries and plugins.

New demosaicing (Bayer matrix to color) algorithms have been added: Cok, Freeman, Laroche/Prescott, Hamilton/Adams, Wemmiao Lu and Chuan-kai Lin.

Fixes for loading raw files.
When loading a raw file, a new dialog with two boutons appears.
[Do not alter raw datas] allows to load raw file without altering datas.
[Process raw datas for viewing] Process normalization, white balance and gamma correction to have user view.

Generation of master Bias/dark/flat have been added. Now let's generate denoised lights directly using the Go! button.

Loading speed of raw files has been improved.
Tif plugin now can load and save grey and color images with floating point resolution.

Add new functionnalities for decoding and viewing RAW files (AutoBrightness, White balance, AHD demosaicing algorithm). Add blending parameter (result = original*(1-b) + mean*(b) ) with Mean filter.

Add new morphological image filters: min (erode), median (salt and pepper noice removing and max (dilate).

New version of eLynx lab. Now you can use all filters in color spaces such as RGB, HLS, HSV, CIE XYZ, CIE Luv, CIE Lab, CIE Lch, Hunter Lab.

New installer with all dependencies and some basic images for testing image processing lab.

Imag processing tool with installer.

Add color space conversion RGB,XYZ,HLS and Lab.
Can preview each channels of original and processed image using processing dialog.

New filters: Box blur, Fast Gaussian blur (quick approximation of gaussian), Gaussian blur (real gaussian kernel) and Unsharp mask (to improve details with planetary images).

New application in eLynx project. astRaw deals with raw astronomical files from CCD cameras. It quickly auto detects image type (bias/dark/flat/light) and allows to preview global and individual image informations.

Now we generate a report atfer autodetection of astronomical image type (offset/dark/flat/object).

Easy building sdk for linux now.
You just need gcc4. Go to eLynx\build\linux and type make! For windows you need Visual Studio 8, go to eLynx\build\vc8 and run sdkV2.sln, that's all.

New windows exe & source codes using new image sdk.

Refactoring sdk using templates, improving documentation and samples. UML diagrams available.

Project was compliant with vc6, vc7, gcc4.
Now is buildable with vc8 compiler.

Port on linux Ubuntu 5.10 and Suze 10.0 is completed. The fits plugin supports reading and saving 8/16 bits gray and color images.

eLynx application is now available on windows and linux. It has been tested on vc6 and unbuntu 5.10.

As eLynx team is growing and have now the requested skill to port the project on linux and UNIX, we start porting. We are still looking for mac os x porters, bakefile familiar and wxWidgets developers.