About
SIP stands for Scilab Image Processing toolbox. SIP intends to do imaging tasks such as filtering, blurring, edge detection, thresholding, histogram manipulation, segmentation, mathematical morphology, color image processing, etc.
These operations are useful for problem solving in real-world applications ranging from car motion planning to automatic diagnosis of medical images.
SIP is meant to be a complete, useful, and FREE digital image processing toolbox for Scilab.

What SIP can do:
Although SIP is far from complete, it has the following useful features:
  • I/O of image files in many formats, including BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, XPM, PCX, and more. (Thanks to ImageMagick)
  • Numerous functions with flexible interface and error treatment (see a listing)
  • Documentation with examples for all the functions
See the ChangeLog and the Development pages for more information.

SIP vs. SIVP vs. IPD - the 'other' Scilab Image Processing toolboxes
Basically, SIP aims towards comprehensive functionality. The only price is a longer installation process to get all the features due to many third-party dependencies.

  • SIP prioritizes GNU/Linux. SIVP and IPD are currently easier for Windows users.
  • SIP provides unified bindings to several image processing libraries: ImageMagick, OpenCV, animal, and Leptonica.
  • SIP has the most number of functions. As of april 2012, SIP has 74 help pages, compared to 55 from SIVP and 53 from IPD.
  • SIP appeared first, SIVP as a friendly fork of SIP. IPD appeared more recently. Most of the SIVP improvements have recently been merged back into SIP.
  • SIP is targeted to more advanced users: aims at more functionality than SIVP and IPD, but can be harder to install. This is a design decision.
  • SIP is designed for very rapid prototyping of imaging solutions.
  • SIP has a friendly and responsive developer and user community.
  • SIP provides ample illustrated documentation with examples.
  • SIP provides state-of-the-art Euclidean morphology-related algorithms, such as dilations, erosions, distance transforms, skeletons, watershed segmentation, with reference implementations that are mostly superior to Matlab and other software.
  • SIVP has explicit handling of integer pixel depths, while SIP is purposedly built for double representation, for simplicity.
  • SIVP currently has support for video processing beyond SIP.
  • SIP focuses on ease of use, functionality, and on the internal speed of the provided functions, not on any low-level user-visible details that could complicate quick usage, such as specialized support for huge images or integer pixel depths. Most image processsing production code or complex time-consuming algorithms that need to deal with very large images should switch from Scilab to C/C++ (for example) as soon as the idea is working for medium-sized images in Scilab+SIP.
  • SIP was awarded Google Summer of Code 2012!
  • Conclusion: All 3+ Scilab IP toolboxes are great and complement each other. They even share code.


License: GPL.

Bugs:
Please report bugs at the Bug Tracker.

Current main authors:
Ricardo Fabbri (rfabbri at (not this part) gmail d0t com), and
Zhang Cheng (zhangcheng.johnchain at gmail,com).
SIP is fostered by
prof. Luciano da Fontoura Costa (luciano at if,sc,usp,br), and
prof. Odemir Martinez Bruno (bruno at icmc,usp,br)
Pending
ToDo:

There is a complete tasklist at Sourceforge:

TO-DO List

Please send suggestions and feature requests to
ricardofabbri (a) users (dot) sf (dot) net
Linx
Sourceforge
SIP record at SouceForge.net SIP at Freshmeat.net

Other Toolboxes:

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26Nov2016 SIP now works using standard Scilab 5.5.2 and Imagemagick 6.8.9-9 that comes with ubuntu 16.10

Download

Please use the Git development version

  • Development version <<use this





There are no stable Windows binaries for SIP yet. Please consider contributing a new windows binary!
  • Windows (old version)
    (SIP 0.1.1) -- Scilab v. <= 2.7 !

  • ImageMagick
    (Linux/UN!X) -- only for sourcecode build and for Windows
    (5.4.3 for WlND0WS)
    v5.4.3 is required by SIP 0.1.1 in Windows.


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