This repository contains a collection of working, unfinished as well as abandoned functions. They serve various tasks although many of them are related to image processing tasks.

Note that the functions have been designed for usability and not necessarily for speed and memory efficiency. The functions do some thorough checks of all the passed arguments and are very flexible when it comes to parameter settings, without cluttering the the function calls with countless unnecessary parameters. Also note, that most functions are not necessarily compatible to GNU Octave, Scilab and/or other software that tries to offer a free alternative to Matlab. Although it often would only require trivial changes to make it compatible. Concerning GNU octave, one could probably obtain almost complete compatibility by simply removing the input parser.

Unless specified otherwise, all the files are licensed under GPLv3 and contain the following license information

Copyright 2012, 2013 Laurent Hoeltgen laurent.hoeltgen@gmail.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Many parts are work in progress and subject to change in the future. This is especially true for the structure of the repository. In the long term, it is planned to achieve a reasonable layout using toolboxes and classes.

There are a certain number of external dependencies. For the time being, they are:

• PAQ8o6: available from: http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/#paq
• JBIGKit: available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/

Only the binaries are required. The methods that require these binaries are Linux specific and do not work on Windows machines.

The following dependency is contained in the repository:

• FED: available from: http://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/Research/SC_FED.shtml

Other dependencies might be required in future versions.