[Insight-users] FastBilateral missing in ITK?

[Alexandre GOUAILLARD]

hi alex.

Originally the idea was to let users gives review and when enough
positive reviews were in, the filter would be moved to review first
(with the option to later change the API) and later to ITK (with fixed
API).

Nowadays, practically, you should indeed write reviews for all the
insight journal paper you used/tested wether it is positive or
negative reviews. negative (but constructive) reviews are very
valuable as insight journal let people update their work (both papers
and code). This is very valuable feedback for contributors. Then, if
you, as a user, think the filter is useful, you should let it know on
this mailing list, as you just did, and someone (usually luis by
default) will keep track of it on the wiki.

When a filter is chosen for inclusion, one of the senior itk developer
from the community usually volunteer to help the original contributor
to bring the code to ITK quality level when needed. Help from the
interested users for testing, advices, and so on is then greatly
appreciated.

alternatively, you could see with luis where to put the request on the
wiki so it is taken into consideration for inclusion in ITK for next
releases. There are usually 4 releases a year.

regards,

alex.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Oleksandr Dzyubak <adzyubak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Sergio,
>
> Thanks for reply. At the moment I am using the "old style".
> So I have submitted my review to promote this submission.
> Hopefully it helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>
>
> Sergio Vera wrote:
>>
>> Hello Oleksandr,
>>
>> As far as I remember, articles from the Insight journal had to be reviewed
>> by at least 4 or 5 users to enter the review section of ITK.
>> So the first step is to write a review yourself after you have tested the
>> code.
>>
>> I do however, believe that we, the users are a bit lazy about reviewing
>> submissions, so contributions enter are moved into ITK very slowly.
>> Maybe would be interesting to rethink the process to speed up the process
>> of integration into ITK of the submissions.
>>
>> At the moment I wrote reviews to each submission that I use or find
>> interesting.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Oleksandr Dzyubak <adzyubak at gmail.com
>> <mailto:adzyubak at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    I have a need of a narrow kernel Bilateral filter
>>    which works "relatively fast".
>>    After some tests I found that the Bilateral filter
>>    provided by the ITK library is much slower than I expected.
>>    Well, I might be doing something wrong so I have to explore that
>>    deeper.
>>
>>    Fortunately in the Insight Journal I found an alternative
>>    by J. Woehr "A Fast Approximation to the Bilateral Filter for ITK"
>>    which serves my needs so far.
>>
>>    Unfortunately this very useful filter did not get into the ITK.
>>    Which is even more, this contribution was never given a review.
>>
>>    As Luis Ibanez mentioned somewhere on this forum that in some cases
>>    a nice positive review can promote the filter to be accepted to
>>    the ITK.
>>
>>    If I write such a review, would that help or
>>    there is another mechanism such as "user request", for example?
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>
>>    Alex
>>
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