[SIP-devel] New dev release

[Ricardo F. <rf...@if...>]

Dear co-developers,

a new development version is available. The main change is the new
watershed function for image segmentation. It accepts markers.  There
is a nice example in the help page, showing how to separate overlying
objects in a binary image.

SIP 0.3.0 is about to come, so it will be specially important to have
feedback from you in the next weeks.

There are also many advances to SIP's core library, called
Animal (An IMAging Library, http://animal.sf.net). In particular, It
is nice to have started using Gandalf library
(http://gandalf-library.sf.net).  Together with the IFT (Image
Foresting Transform), this will provoke an avalanche of new operators.
It is just a matter of time.

Here is the new features for Animal

0.7.0
   + Fast Watershed transform by IFT (function watershed in
   morphology.h)
   + Regional minima detection by IFT (regional_minima in
   morphology.h)
   + IFT procedures and framework were rewritten. They are more
   general.  One may readily implement many image processing operators
   using it, specially segmentation operators.
   + In file analysis.c we changed the way propagation functions are
   called (parameters, etc).
   + Many bugfixes to the propagation routines, which affects
   euclidean distance transforms and multiscale skeletonization.
   + Error treatment has been improved in some routines, by making use
   of lib Gandalf's error treatment scheme.


Animal and SIP-dev installs easily under Linux. Any problems please
write to this list.

Enjoy!
Ricardo.

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  Ricardo Fabbri, Cybernetic Vision Research Group, USP, Brazil.
  www.rfabbri.kit.net
  "Quality and Quantity both matter, but nowadays we miss Quality"