Java image processing - accessing pixel data

[JacobGH]

Am I missing something huge? The ColorImage class in Java doesn't seem to do much image processing on it's own - you have to use its method to extract a MonoImage. But then, a MonoImage can only do one thing - find ellipses with the build in method. Is there any way to access individual pixel values? It would be nice to have methods, like blob detection (which labview has) but at least we could develop things like that if we had access to pixel data.

Any help would be appreciated.