Re: Q: Low hanging fruit?

[John Swensen]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Bill Denney wrote:
>
> > Attached are three new functions.  Essentially now I'm just going  
> > through the list of functions in matlab that are missing in octave  
> > and writing the low hanging fruit.
> >
> > Have a good day,
> >
> > Bill
>
> Bill,
>
> Any chance you (or anyone else) have compiled a list of "low hanging  
> fruit"?
>
> I expect there are a few individuals who would like to contribute to  
> that effort.
>
> Personally, I'd be interested in writing some m-files during my  
> spare time.
>
> Ben

I don't know about a list of low hanging fruit, but I have one you  
could work on (or I should just stop being lazy and do it myself).   
The image processing toolbox function 'edge' does not have a *true*  
canny edge detector.  There is a non-standard option called 'andy'  
that is similar to the canny edge detector, but isn't quite it.  That  
is the only edge method still missing from the octave version of  
edge.m.  I implemented a canny edge detector for my computer vision  
class, but haven't had time nor motivation to incorporate it into  
edge.m, but am more than willing to contribute my code.  I also have a  
friend in the class who wrote a much more optimized/vectorized (yet  
more memory hungry) version that he said he may be willing to  
contribute in place of mine.

John Swensen