BioImage Convert Changelog

What's new in BioImage Convert 1.52

Mar 28, 2014
  • New: No upsample argument in resize
  • Update: Many improvements and fixes to OIB reader

New in BioImage Convert 1.51 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • Support Zeiss ZVI file format
  • EXIF/IPTC metadata parsing
  • improve preferred channel mapping for OIB and Fluoview
  • add support for 7 channel visual mapping: R,G,B,Y,C,M,Gray
  • add registration based "overlapping frames" constraint for sampling
  • add skipping frames in the beginning and at the end
  • new binary: gobjects renderer, separate due to Qt usage
  • new: store to and use histogram from the file
  • support progressive jpeg encoding, make it default but allow option to disable

New in BioImage Convert 1.45 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • New: Channel fusion that allows combining channels, ex: 1+4,2+4,3
  • New: 3D interpolation (for 3D images) with Nearest Neighbor, Trilinear and Tricubic
  • New: Append channels from another file, images must match sizes and pixel formats
  • Fix: Writing OME-TIFF images with multiple channels

New in BioImage Convert 1.44 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • General:
  • Major library updates and support for new platforms
  • Added testing framework and all releases are now tested against exhaustive benchmark
  • Full support for Windows64
  • Full support for Intel based MacOSX
  • Full support for Signed, Unsigned and Float images in: 8/16/32/64 bits (includes resize, histogram and Luts)
  • Updated Matlab MEX: bimread
  • Updated libraries: ffmpeg, libtiff, libjpeg, libpng
  • Command line:
  • Support for definition of 5D geometry from command line
  • All metadata is now transfered by default
  • Add tiling command (generates a tiled pyramid is specified format in desired location)
  • Formats:
  • Full support for BigTIFF
  • Added support for OIB version 2.0.0.0
  • Many OME-TIFF fixes

New in BioImage Convert 1.40 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • Heavily improved metadata system: extraction of many more tags for all formats, code clean-up, new command line options
  • Added full support for OME-TIFF file format
  • Heavily improved parsing for STK, LSM, Fluoview
  • Improved command line parsing
  • Several improvements and fixes for OIB format, mostly fixed loading of mosaics, greatly improved speed for large files
  • Support for 1 and 4 bit images, they will be converted to 8 bit images