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Vortex Image Processing package
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VIP is a python package for angular, reference star and spectral
differential imaging for exoplanet and disk high-contrast imaging. VIP is
compatible with Python 3 (Python 2 compatibility dropped with VIP 0.9.9).
The goal of VIP is to integrate open-source, efficient, easy-to-use and
well-documented implementations of high-contrast image processing algorithms to
the interested scientific community. The main repository of VIP resides on
GitHub, the standard for scientific
open source code distribution, using Git as a version control system.
VIP started as the effort of Carlos Alberto Gomez Gonzalez,
a former PhD student of the VORTEX team
(ULiege, Belgium). VIP's development is led by Dr. Gomez with contributions
made by collaborators from several teams (take a look at the contributors tab on
VIP's GitHub repository). Most of VIP's functionalities are mature but
it doesn't mean it's free from bugs. The code is continuously evolving and
therefore feedback/contributions are greatly appreciated. If you want to report
a bug or suggest a functionality please create an issue on GitHub. Pull
requests are very welcomed!
The documentation for VIP can be found here: http://vip.readthedocs.io.
Tutorials, in the form of Jupyter notebooks, showcasing VIP's usage and other resources such as test/dummy datasets are available on the VIP-extras repository. Alternatively, you can execute this repository on Binder. The notebook for ADI processing can be visualized online with
nbviewer. If you are new to the Jupyter notebook application check out the beginner's guide.
$ pip install vip_hciThe benefits of using a Python package manager (distribution), such as (ana)conda or Canopy, are many. Mainly, it brings easy and robust package management and avoids messing up with your system's default python. An alternative is to use package managers like apt-get for Ubuntu or Homebrew/MacPorts/Fink for macOS. I personally recommend using Miniconda.
VIP depends on existing packages from the Python ecosystem, such as
numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas, astropy, scikit-learn,
scikit-image, photutils and others. There are different ways of
installing VIP suitable for different scenarios.
The easiest way to install VIP is through the Python Package Index, aka
PyPI, with the pip package manager. Simply run:
$ pip install vip_hciWith pip you can easily uninstall, upgrade or install a specific version of
VIP. For upgrading the package run:
$ pip install --upgrade vip_hciAlternatively, you can use pip install and point to the GitHub repo:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/vortex-exoplanet/VIP.gitYou can download VIP from its GitHub repository as a zip file. A setup.py
file (setuptools) is included in the root folder of VIP. Enter the package's
root folder and run:
$ python setup.py installIf you want to benefit from the git functionalities, you need to clone the
repository (make sure your system has git installed):
$ git clone https://github.com/vortex-exoplanet/VIP.gitThen you can install the package by following the previous steps, using the setup.py file. Creating a fork with GitHub is recommended to developers or to users who want to experiment with the code.
OpenCV (Open source Computer Vision) provides fast C++ image processing
operations and is used by VIP for basic image transformations. If you don't
have/want the OpenCV python bindings (OpenCV is optional since VIP
v0.5.2), VIP will use the much slower ndimage/scikit-image libraries
transparently. Fortunately, installing OpenCV library is nowadays and easy
process that is done automatically with the VIP installation. Alternatively,
you could use conda:
$ conda install opencvVIP contains a class vip_hci.fits.ds9 that enables, through pyds9,
the interaction with a DS9 window (displaying numpy arrays, controlling the
display options, etc). pyds9 is an optional requirement and must be
installed from the latest development version:
$ pip install git+git://github.com/ericmandel/pyds9.git#egg=pyds9Also, you can install the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) optimizations
(provided that you have a recent version of conda) or openblas
libraries. Either of them can be installed with conda install. This is
recommended along with OpenCV for maximum speed on VIP computations.
VIP offers the possibility of computing SVDs on GPU by using CuPy
(starting from version 0.8.0) or PyTorch (from version 0.9.2). These remain
as optional requirements, to be installed by the user, as well as a proper CUDA
environment (and a decent GPU card).
Finally, start Python (or IPython or a Jupyter notebook if you prefer) and check
that you are able to import VIP:
import vip_hci as vipIf everything went fine with the installation, you will see a welcome message. Now you can start finding exoplanets!
Please subscribe to our mailing list
if you want to be informed of VIP's latest developments (new versions
and/or updates).
Please cite Gomez Gonzalez et al. 2017 (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa73d7/)
whenever you publish data reduced with VIP. Astrophysics Source Code Library
reference [ascl:1603.003].