Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I was just reading about an image tool for extracting objects, sorta like a magic wand, but a lot better. Info is at siox.org .. Looks like it's only implemented as a plugin for other image programs. I'm wondering if it's be possible to add it to IM?

We can add the functionality to ImageMagick but after checking our to-do list it may well be 2010 before we get to it. In the mean-time if someone implements a basic version of SIOX in C that we could use from the command line, it might get into ImageMagick sooner.

That looks really impressive, would be excellent if we could do this with imagemagick.

Well, they have written the algorithm in C as a gimp plugin:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp/app/b ... iew=markup

I haven't developed plugins for either IM or gimp, so I have no idea how different they are.

Maybe we can convince them to write an initial version for IM.

I have used siox with Gimp and wonder how it would work with ImageMagick. The version I used in Gimp you had to outline a box area containing the item you were interested in extracting then the areas containg the colours to keep. From what I understand the latest version would be similar but you use a "paint brush" to select the areas ?
I suppose the method I have used could be done with javascript as there are methods around to select cropping areas but how would you impliment the new method ?
Thinking on I suppose you could set up a crop to set your main object and then other crop boxes to find the colours within them to keep?
You are getting into a GUI now ?

Going off on a tangent I found this link which looks interesting although I have not downloaded all the files as I am over my bandwidth allocation this month already
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/