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Reading FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) images

asked 2012-08-29 12:44:21 -0600

ali dariush gravatar image

Is there any option in openCV to read FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) images? Such image format has many applications in astronomical image processing.

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answered 2012-08-30 07:49:21 -0600

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updated 2012-08-30 07:50:41 -0600

According to Wikipedia, "The FITS Support Office at NASA/GSFC maintains a list of libraries and platforms that currently support FITS."
Once you have a memory buffer with the image, cv:Mat will probably be able to handle it.

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Many thanks. Indeed I can use the NASA FITS/IO libraries to handle FITS images. But my aim is to avoid using other libraries and just rely on OpenCV functionality.

ali dariush gravatar imageali dariush ( 2012-09-14 05:04:46 -0600 )edit

OpenCV is not meant to support a large set of specialized image and data I/O formats. These usually have their own tools. However, once you have pixel buffers, OpenCV can take it from there.

Adi gravatar imageAdi ( 2012-09-15 13:06:04 -0600 )edit
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answered 2018-02-22 02:27:36 -0600

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You can map file into the memory by mmap (for example), and then construct cv::Mat object by data pointer. That's the most simple way, i think. In common, before that you should to parse your FITS header to know dimensions and other info to make cv::Mat.

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