From: Vit K on
Can Matlab Image Processing Toolbox functions process images structured as tile arrays , for example FlashPix or Tiled Tiff? I'm looking for some way to analyze very large, distributed tiled images using parallel computing on mutli-core HPC hardware, without conversion into single file.

Note: processing individual tiles separately is not an option, because if object (feature) spans across tiles it will not be counted as same continuous object.

Many thanks in advance for any thoughts on this matter.
Vit
From: Ashish Uthama on
On Wed, 05 May 2010 17:04:05 -0400, Vit K <student(a)khvatkov.com> wrote:

> Can Matlab Image Processing Toolbox functions process images structured
> as tile arrays , for example FlashPix or Tiled Tiff? I'm looking for
> some way to analyze very large, distributed tiled images using parallel
> computing on mutli-core HPC hardware, without conversion into single
> file.
>
> Note: processing individual tiles separately is not an option, because
> if object (feature) spans across tiles it will not be counted as same
> continuous object.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any thoughts on this matter.
> Vit


From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPix and what I know of a Tiled tiff
image indicate that they are both single files. I do not follow what you
mean by 'without conversion into single file'.
Could you say more?


It might help to outline what kind of processing you intend to do. Folks
here might be able to suggest ways to break it up in a parallel fashion.

Aside: (not what you asked for, but might be useful)
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/images/blockproc.html
lets your process individual tiles of a tiff file (by setting the block
size == tiff tile size).