Changelog

0.0.6 (2025-02-26)

LayerSegmentsImageSegmentationReader now suggest using --lenient flag in exception in case image not binary
added the discard-by-name filter that allows user to discard images based on name, either exact match of regexp (matching sense can be inverted)
requiring seppl>=0.2.10 now
added support for aliases
added to_bluechannel, to_grayscale and to_indexedpng image segmentation methods to idc.api
added the generate_palette_list method to idc.api which turns a predefined palette name or comma-separated list of RGB values into a flat list of int values, e.g., used for indexed PNG files
exposed method save_image through idc.api
filter-labels now handles not specifying any labels and only regexp
write-labels filter now allows specification of custom separator
write-labels: fixed retrieval of image-segmentation labels
using simple_palette_utils dependency now
idc-convert tool now flags aliases on the help screen with *
the from-voc-od reader now has the -r/--image_rel_path option which gets injected before the folder property from the XML file

added setuptools as dependency
switched to underscores in project name
using 90% as default quality for JPEG images now, can be overridden with environment variable IDC_JPEG_QUALITY
added methods to idc.api module: jpeg_quality(), array_to_image(...), empty_image(...)

switched to the fast-opex library
helper method from_indexedpng was using incorrect label index (off by 1)
Data.save_image method now ensures that source/target files exist before calling os.path.samefile
requiring seppl>=0.2.6 now
readers now support default globs, allowing the user to just specify directories as input (and the default glob gets appended)
the to-yolo-od writer now has an option for predefined labels (for enforcing label order)
the to-yolo-od writer now stores the labels/labels_cvs files in the respective output folders rather than using an absolute file name
the bluechannel/grayscale/indexed-png image segmentation readers/writers can use a value other than 0 now for the background
split filter has been renamed to split-records

added generic plugins that take user Python functions: from-pyfunc, pyfunc-filter, to-pyfunc
added idc-exec tool that uses generator to produce variable/value pairs that are used to expand the provided pipeline template which then gets executed
added polygon-simplifier filter for reducing number of points in polygons
moved several geometry/image related functions from imgaug library into core library to avoid duplication
added python-image-complete as dependency
the ImageData class now uses the python-image-complete library to determine the file format rather than loading the image into memory in order to determine that
the convert-image-format filter now correctly creates a new container with the converted image data
the to-coco-od writer only allows sorting of categories when using predefined categories now
the from-opex-od reader now handles absent meta-data correctly
added the AnnotationsOnlyWriter mixin for writers that can skip the base image and just output the annotations