Best Java Image Manipulation API

[ags1]

Instead of programming day and night, I do sometimes get distracted by things like astronomy. There are some great freeware programs to manipulate astrophotographs, but I would like to make a few simple utilities myself.

I would need to do pixel-level operations of TIFF images. What are my options? Java Advanced Imaging?

[ags1]

Well, I found this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jiu/

It runs, which is more than I can say for JAI!

[nsigma]

Two I know of that might be useful to you -

JHLabs filters - http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/filters/
ImageJ - http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/index.html  /  http://fiji.sc/

ImageJ is used a lot for scientific image processing.  Quick google found this - http://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astroimagej/  It is possible to use ImageJ as a library, but it might be easier to write plugins / scripts for it if you go down that route.

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[Danny02]

When I did some simple image filtering some time ago I just used the build in java2d stuff. They have some  standard stuff like gausfilter and generic blockfilter and so on and with BufferedImageOp a simple Interface to implement own image operations
i.e. my filter
https://github.com/Danny02/WanderrouteJS/tree/master/WebTerrainGenerator/src/main/java/wanderroutejs/imageprocessing

[nsigma]

... BufferedImageOp a simple Interface to implement own image operations ...

All the JHLabs stuff are BufferedImageOp's.

[ags1]

ImageJ is seriously floating my boat! This is exactly what I was looking for! And it supports FITS files. Thanks!