- feat: introduce QueueCollectorThread
- feat: introduce SegmenterManagerThread
- feat: instroduce EventExtractorManagerThread and corresponding workers
- enh: minor improvements for HDF5ImageCache and ImageCorrCache
- enh: use data size as cache size if smaller than requested chunk size
- enh: return dictionary for brightness feature computation
- enh: allow to pass a single image for brightness feature computation
- enh: allow to pass a single image for texture feature computation
- enh: make sure that masks are written as uint8 to HDF5 files
- ref: haralick texture computation now returns dict instead of recarray
- ref: renamed HDF5WriterThread to DequeWriterThread
- ref: renamed feature submodules (prepended "feat_")