Søren Hauberg skrev:
> tir, 23 02 2010 kl. 21:43 +0100, skrev David Grundberg:
>
>> I don't know if the underlaying tiff library supports reading single frames.
>>
>> One way to work-around any frame loading problem is to make sure that
>> all frames are loaded at once in one imread call. Maybe imread should
>> read all frames available if there is only one argument. Maybe imread
>> should be made to accept ":" as a frame index and load all available
>> frames only then.
>>
>
> If I understand things correctly, you can currently do
>
> I = imread ("myfile.tif", 7);
>
> after which 'I' will contain the 7th frame of "myfile.tif". Hence, the
> class of 'I' is an array.
>
> The obvious extension is to allow for
>
> J = imread ("myfile.tif", 3:5);
>
This is already supported. The result J is a four-dimensional matrix. I
think it makes perfect sense.
> which would then return frames 3, 4 and 5 in a cell array. The problem
> is then that the class of the output depends on how many frames the user
> asks for. If the user asks for one frame, she would get an array (for
> Matlab compatibility), but if she asks for more than one frame the
> result is a cell array. This will most likely be the cause of great
> confusion and many bugs.
>
> One solution would be to do something like
>
> [J1, J2, J3] = imread ("myfile.tif", 3:5);
>
> but then you have to know how many frames you are asking for in advance,
> which really isn't that great.
>
> Any thoughts on how to deal with this?
>
> Søren
>
I tested Matlab and it doesn't support several frame indices, so I don't
think we need to make any changes (like put frames into cell arrays)
David
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