ImageTranscoder

An interface providing metadata transcoding capability.

Any image may be transcoded (written to a different format than the one it was originally stored in) simply by performing a read operation followed by a write operation. However, loss of data may occur in this process due to format differences.

In general, the best results will be achieved when format-specific metadata objects can be created to encapsulate as much information about the image and its associated metadata as possible, in terms that are understood by the specific ImageWriter used to perform the encoding.

An ImageTranscoder may be used to convert the IIOMetadata objects supplied by the I