imread / imwrite status?

[Brendan Drew]

Appologies if this is going to the wrong list -- there's a maintainers 
list but no devel list, which is where I'd usually send this sort of thing.

I am presently using Octave 2.1.64 (SuSE binaries) and Octave-Forget 
2004.11.16. Looking through the release notes for Octave and 
Octave-Forge, it appears that imread and imwrite (my bread and butter, 
so to speak) are both implemented by forking off an ImageMagick 
(convert) process. This gets to be intolerably slow when reading large 
sequences of images (my C++ png reading / writing code is roughly a 
factor of 10 faster on my system, which when you multiply out by 6000+ 
images is quite the savings). Are there any plans for a C++ version of 
imread / imwrite? If not, I'd be happy to take a weekend or two to start 
hacking one together if there is sufficient interest.

--
Brendan Drew
Research Scientist
PercepTek, Inc.
12395 North Mead Way
Littleton, CO 80125
Tel: 720-344-1037 x 126
Fax: 720-344-2360



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