# Announcement: ImageQuilting.jl

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/announcement-imagequilting-jl/1973>\
**Category:** Geo\
**Tags:** package, announcement\
**Created:** [February 8, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/announcement-imagequilting-jl/1973 "2017-02-08T05:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/announcement-imagequilting-jl/1973/1 "2017-02-08T05:06:19Z")

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Dear Geoscientists,

I am happy to announce [ImageQuilting.jl](https://github.com/juliohm/ImageQuilting.jl), a geostatistics/computer vision package I’ve been working on since Julia v0.3. I’ve tested it extensively, but I would like to get your feedback if possible.

[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/juliohm/ImageQuilting.jl/master/docs/src/images/quilting.gif(image larger than 4 MB)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/juliohm/ImageQuilting.jl/master/docs/src/images/quilting.gif)

This package implements an extension to the famous Efros-Freeman algorithm for texture synthesis and transfer in computer vision. Unlike the original algorithm developed for 2D images, our method can also handle 3D grids and pre-existing point-data very efficiently (the fastest in the literature). This is useful for generating alternative models of the subsurface of the Earth when data is available at a few locations (e.g. wells) or at low resolution (e.g. seismic). You can find out more in the [Examples](http://juliohm.github.io/ImageQuilting.jl/latest/examples.html) section of the documentation.

The corresponding paper is coming out in a few days, I appreciate if you can report issues or give suggestions of improvement before it is out.

> Hoffimann, J., Scheidt, C., Barfod, A., Caers, J, 2017. Stochastic Simulation by Image Quilting of Deterministic Process-based Geological Models.

I would like to thank the community for the constant help in forums and on GitHub, it is being a pleasure to learn from you. Special thanks to @tim.holy, @yuyichao, @vchuravy, and @tkelman.

Thank you,  
-Júlio

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**Author:** ![tim.holy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tim.holy/32/52_2.png) [@tim.holy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tim.holy)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/announcement-imagequilting-jl/1973/2 "2017-02-08T13:08:34Z")

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Congrats on the paper and the release, Júlio!

–Tim