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2.2.0 -- Image combination performance

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@mwcraig mwcraig released this 31 May 14:48
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This release contains some modest improvements in image combination performance. For the best performance, install the bottleneck. With bottleneck installed, median_combine is 2x faster.

Changes in this version:

  • Image combination is faster for average and sum combine, and improves for all operations if the bottleneck package is installed.
  • Pixel-wise weighting can be done for sum and average combine.
  • When filtering an ImageFileCollection by keyword value, and not explicitly using a regex search pattern (regex_match=True), escape all special characters in the keyword value for a successful search.
  • Return mask and uncertainty from combine even if input images have no mask or uncertainty.

Thanks to all of the people who contributed code, opened issues, and/or provided advice:

  • Timothy P. Ellsworth-Bowers (@tbowers7) and Pey Lian Lim (@pllim) wrote code for this release.
  • Yoonsoo Back (@ysBach) and Simon Conseil (@saimn) provided extensive input on image combination.
  • Issues opened by Yash Gondhalekar (@Yash-10), Michael Kelley (@mkelley), Jane Rigby (@janerigby), and Aayushi Verma
    (@awesomecosmos) were closed in this release.
  • Rieke Bohemann and Tim-Oliver Husser (@thusser) provided extensive details about issues with median combination which have been addressed in this release.