As for the scale and crop requests, they should be doable but requires some additions to the image handlers. For instance to get support for this for ImageMagick we would have to have some more keywords to use in the parameter strings, for instance the size of the image to scale from, perhaps also some basic arithmetic operations.
Also it can be problematic to know the size of an image, we must either rely on the builtin functions in PHP to do this (but they don't support many formats) or create custom code to figure out the size. Formats such as JPEG, GIF and PNG shouldn't be a problem though.