Image Processing – IIPImage

TIFF Image Encoding: Optimizing for Size, Speed and Quality

Ruven — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:11:29 +0000

The TIFF image format is the recommended input format for use with IIPImage due to it’s flexibility, unrivaled speed as well as its ability to handle multiple bit depths, scientific imaging and multidimensional datasets. However, how a TIFF is encoded and structured can make a large difference to the resulting file size as well as [...]

iipsrv 1.2 released

Ruven — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 19:30:06 +0000

Version 1.2 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released and available for download! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. Major new features include support for output in PNG and WebP formats, support for TIFF image stacks such [...]

Image Comparison of Ancient Mummy Portraits: The Appear Project

Ruven — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:43:46 +0000

Guest Post by Marie Svoboda, J. Paul Getty Museum Mummy Portrait of a Young WomanTempera on wood, about A.D. 170–200 In 2013, the Antiquities Conservation Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum launched a collaborative study inviting major museums around the world to participate in the study and characterization of the manufacturing practices and material [...]

iipsrv 1.1 released

Ruven — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:22:37 +0000

Version 1.1 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. Major new features include support for decoding JPEG2000 images via the OpenJPEG library, support for several new image processing functions, ICC profile [...]