These samples are normal bits in the encoded (e.g. compressed) stream of
each tile or row of the image. However, when considering the photometric
interpretation of an image these samples should be discarded. They are
only relevant for multiband.
For the most part we previously rejected these images due to a mismatch
between sample count and the color as indicated by the interpretation.
Only, for alpha we never really verified if the extra channel is indeed
alpha or something unrelated. We don't have a perfect solution as
GeoTiff motivates us having a MultiBand pseudo-color output
configuration that has no related photometric interpretation and borrows
the usual gray tone instead. We can only really distinguish this from a
gray-alpha image through looking at the values of the ExtraSamples
vector. Then again we do not yet support GrayAlpha anyways.
As a simplification for the discarding process we only support full-byte
extra samples and require all samples to be the same bit-depth, not only
those which we return. This is blessed by Tiff's recommendations for
baseline decoding as well as libtiff.
The idea is to allow codegen to exploit specific known constants. It
seems that LLVM by itself will not generate split loop blocks by an
input argument that is a loop constant. Whereas we know, from PNG, that
some constants yield much better code. In this case
coef[i] = coef[i] + coef[i - n]
This has a destructive dependency chain for `n = 1`, should never get an
argument of 0 and is almost embarrassingly parallel in SIMD if n >= 8
where we can increase the amount of data loaded at once for each
independent loop iteration.
By splitting the loop we make the compiler apply independent
optimization passes to each of case, then have a fallback for things we
did not cover with vectorized possibilities.
Currently, when getting the LZWStatus::NoProgress from the underlying
weezl library, tiff checks that no input bytes were read and no
output bytes were written. Although this is according to what the
weezl library mentions in their doc-comment, it's not what the real
result always looks like.
Our fuzzer found input that triggered exactly this case, where the LZW
reader is able to write some output byte before hitting the NoProgress
status.
This change removes the assert, as the resulting action is anyways to return
an error that can be handled by the caller.
This was found through the fax4 decoding that is always bilevel.
No longer silently ignore an unknown color type when a photometric
interpretation requires an inversion. DICOM requires that WhiteIsZero
and BlackIsZero are only used for samples-per-pixel=1 but we do not
strictly enforce that early. Previously for the result Multiband color
we just ignored the tag which is also not right.
Fax was commonly requested, so let's make it Just Work when tiff crate is used through `image` where it's difficult to fiddle with tiff crate features.
At the moment when writing Byte strings into tiff metadata sections (like
for XMP metadata) and try to read it with this crate, you will find your
characters as a Value::UnsignedBig, holding the char value with padding.
This seems wrong and we should instead return actual Value::Bytes.
Aurelia Molzer