New package for image processing in R

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I’ve written a package for image processing in R, with the goal of providing a fast API in R that lets you do things in C++ if you need to. The package is called imager, and it’ on Github.
The whole thing is based on CImg, a very nice C++ library for image processing by David Tschumperlé.

Features:

  • Handles images in up to 4 dimensions, meaning you can use it for volumetric/hyperspectral/data or short videos
  • Facilities for taking subsets of images, pixel neighbourhoods, etc.
  • All the usual image processing stuff (filters, morphology, transformations, interpolation, etc.)
  • Easy access to the C++ API via Rcpp

The package is still in an early phase but it can already do a lot of useful things as you’ll see from the documentation.

Example code:

library(imager)
im <- load.image(system.file('extdata/parrots.png',package='imager'))
layout(t(1:3)) 
plot(im,main="Original image")
grad <- grayscale(im) %>% get_gradient("xy")
names(grad) <- paste("Gradient along",c("x","y")) 
l_ply(names(grad),function(n) plot(grad[[n]],main=n))

example_parrots

Visit the website for more information.


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