In this article I will introduce you to Java Image processing, explain why Java is a good fit and introduce our JDeli image processing library.
What is Image processing?
Image processing is the action of altering an image using an algorithm. Often this involves a kernel matrix. Image processing operations are frequently used to improve picture quality or expose details as well as just for fun.
Why use Java for Image processing?
Reason 1 ImageIO, plugins and third-party libraries such as JDeli allow Java to read and write a very wide range of Image file formats
Reason 2 Java provides a simple abstract BufferedImage class but also deep level access to pixels, rasters, colorspaces if needed
Reason 3 Graphics2D, kernels and Affine TranformOp allow a very wide range of operations to be applied to an Image.
Reason 4 Java is cross-platform, robust and well supported
Why use JDeli for Java Image processing?
JDeli simplifies image processing in Java and offers the following benefits:
- prevent heap related JVM crashes
- large selection of predefined Image processing operations
- custom() operation makes it easy to define new operations
- support for additional image formats such as Heic
- reduce output file size
- improve read/write performance
- create smaller files
- control over output
- support threading
- superior image scaling algorithms