Why am I unable to do tiled writes with IMWRITE in MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)?

I would like to be able to write tiled segments of a TIFF image rather than the entire image, since this would help me avoid out of memory errors. IMREAD supports PIXELREGIONs which allow for tiled reads but IMWRITE does not support tiled writes.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This enhancement has been incorporated in Release 2009b (R2009b). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

As a workaround, this can be implemented via MEX files using the LIBTIFF library which supports tiled writes. The LIBTIFF library is available at:

https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/

The 'WriteMode' property has an 'append' value that can be used to create multiframe image stacks that may suffice for some customers depending on their application.