scikit-image 0.11.0 release notes#

We’re happy to announce the release of scikit-image v0.11.0!

scikit-image is an image processing toolbox for SciPy that includes algorithms for segmentation, geometric transformations, color space manipulation, analysis, filtering, morphology, feature detection, and more.

For more information, examples, and documentation, please visit our website:

http://scikit-image.org

Highlights#

For this release, we merged over 200 pull requests with bug fixes, cleanups, improved documentation and new features. Highlights include:

  • Region Adjacency Graphs - Color distance RAGs (#1031) - Threshold Cut on RAGs (#1031) - Similarity RAGs (#1080) - Normalized Cut on RAGs (#1080) - RAG drawing (#1087) - Hierarchical merging (#1100)

  • Sub-pixel shift registration (#1066)

  • Non-local means denoising (#874)

  • Sliding window histogram (#1127)

  • More illuminants in color conversion (#1130)

  • Handling of CMYK images (#1360)

  • stop_probability for RANSAC (#1176)

  • Li thresholding (#1376)

  • Signed edge operators (#1240)

  • Full ndarray support for peak_local_max (#1355)

  • Improve conditioning of geometric transformations (#1319)

  • Standardize handling of multi-image files (#1200)

  • Ellipse structuring element (#1298)

  • Multi-line drawing tool (#1065), line handle style (#1179)

  • Point in polygon testing (#1123)

  • Rotation around a specified center (#1168)

  • Add shape option to drawing functions (#1222)

  • Faster regionprops (#1351)

  • skimage.future package (#1365)

  • More robust I/O module (#1189)

API Changes#

  • The skimage.filter subpackage has been renamed to skimage.filters.

  • Some edge detectors returned values greater than 1–their results are now appropriately scaled with a factor of sqrt(2).

Contributors to this release#

(Listed alphabetically by last name)

  • Fedor Baart

  • Vighnesh Birodkar

  • François Boulogne

  • Nelson Brown

  • Alexey Buzmakov

  • Julien Coste

  • Phil Elson

  • Adam Feuer

  • Jim Fienup

  • Geoffrey French

  • Emmanuelle Gouillart

  • Charles Harris

  • Jonathan Helmus

  • Alexander Iacchetta

  • Ivana Kajić

  • Kevin Keraudren

  • Almar Klein

  • Gregory R. Lee

  • Jeremy Metz

  • Stuart Mumford

  • Damian Nadales

  • Pablo Márquez Neila

  • Juan Nunez-Iglesias

  • Rebecca Roisin

  • Jasper St. Pierre

  • Jacopo Sabbatini

  • Michael Sarahan

  • Salvatore Scaramuzzino

  • Phil Schaf

  • Johannes Schönberger

  • Tim Seifert

  • Arve Seljebu

  • Steven Silvester

  • Julian Taylor

  • Matěj Týč

  • Alexey Umnov

  • Pratap Vardhan

  • Stefan van der Walt

  • Joshua Warner

  • Tony S Yu