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I recently came back to image processing. Most of what I used previously was Matlab. I’d like to switch to a more convenient and open language.
After having used Python library PIL and bitterly understood it had, built-in, only 3×3 and 5×5 filter kernels, I decided to ask here if someone knows of good image processing libraries.
What are the existing image processing libraries (any language) ?
Are they fast / mature / still in early phase ?
Check out the python Scipy library. It’s an open source fast n-dimensional array manipulation library in python. It has all the basic image processing tools:
It doesn’t have all the more advanced functions of Matlab’s Image Processing Toolbox. However, as Vereb suggested, a lot of those can be found in ITK (also available in python flavor).
Like you I wanted to get away from matlab to a dynamic language like python. And like you, I was disappointed by PIL, when I realized it was just an ImageMagick in python. You’ll still need to use PIL for reading/writing images.
To get a Matlab-like image processing experience with python get Numpy/Scipy, Matplotlib and Spyder. All of which and more is conveniently packaged in Python(X,Y) for windows only.