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Advanced Digital Imaging Solutions Laboratory (ADISL)
Image Apprentice is a C/C++ based Image Processing Learner’s Toolkit. Students use it as a
companion to their favourite Image Processing Textbook. It allows one to use self-written
image processing algorithms as plugins.
It comes with a Plugin Development Kit (PDK) that has a skeleton code having a simple coding
style. A student who has attended a 101-level course in C/C++ programming is well-equipped to
write an Image Processing plugin for Image Apprentice using Visual C++.
AForge
AForge.NET is a C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence - image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, etc.
AllSeeingI
AllSeeingI (ASI) is the codename for a computer vision and visualization framework. It is a visual programming environment for rapid development and easy reusability.
Editor's Note - This project is just getting started but may be a chance for developers to contribute to a brand new vision system.
CamCap and CLAG
Links to the Nottingham video processing environment otherwise known collectively
as CamCap, for camera and video processing work and CLAG, for command line
based image processing/display and prototyping. The environment is windows
based and makes use of DirectShow and the intel open source computer vision
library (OpenCV).
CImg
The CImg Library is an open source C++ toolkit for image processing. It
provides simple classes and functions to load, save, process and display
images in your own C++ code. CImg stands for "Cool Image" : It is simple
to use and efficient. It's like a STL for image processing!
CMVision
Project goal was to create a simple, robust vision system suitable for real time robotics
applications. The system aims to perform global low level color vision at video
rates without the use of special purpose harware.
CVIPtools
One of the primary purposes of the CVIPtools development is to allow students, faculty,
and other researchers to explore the power of computer processing of digital images.
The newest version of CVIPtools, version 4.3, developed at the Computer Vision and
Image Processing Laboratory at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, under
the continuing direction of Dr. Scott E Umbaugh is currently available
with the new textbook, Computer Imaging: Digital Image Analysis
and Processing.
EDISON
Code for the Edge Detection and Image SegmentatiON system. This system is a low-level feature
extraction tool that integrates confidence based edge detection and mean shift based image
segmentation. It was developed by the Robust Image Understanding Laboratory
at Rutgers University.
FILTERS
Filters is a library (not an application) implementing image filters and image processing functions.
FreeImage Algorithms
FreeImage Algorithms is an image processing library built on top of FreeImage. Although originally
created for images involving cells it could be used for a large range of tasks.
Gandalf
The Fast Computer Vision and Numerical Library. Gandalf is a C library designed to support the development of computer vision applications.
Gwyddion
Gwyddion is a modular program for SPM (scanning probe microscopy) data analysis. Primarily it
is supposed to be used for analysis of height fields obtained by means of scanning probe
microscopy techniques (AFM, MFM, STM, NSOM), but generally it can be used for any other
height field analysis or image analysis.
Gluas plus GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
Gluas is a GIMP plug-in providing a enviroment for testing algorithms for image
processing. The environment contains a simple editor for entering the
algorithms. It uses the lua interpreter.
Hornets Eye
HornetsEye also is an attempt to trim down the Mimas library
and create a minimalistic and consistent C++/Ruby real-time computer vision library with an interface to Ruby.
iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit (iNVT)
The iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit is a comprehensive set of C++ classes for the development
of neuromorphic models of vision. Neuromorphic models are computational neuroscience algorithms
whose architecture and function is closely inspired from biological brains. The iLab
Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit comprises not only base classes for images, neurons,
and brain areas, but also fully-developed models such as our model of bottom-up visual
attention and of Bayesian surprise.
IM Toolkit
Windows and UNIX - The idea behind IM was to create a toolkit that was not so complex as OpenCV, neither
so big as VTK, but that can be used as a solid base to the development of thesis and
dissertations, as for commercial applications.
ImageJ
ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by
NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or
as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or
later virtual machine. Downloadable distributions are available for
Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Linux.
Editor's Note - This project is geared towards medical image analysis. If you need to analyze image cross-sections, break/create image stacks, then this package is worth some attention!
ImLib3D
ImLib3D is a C++ library and visualisation system for 3D image processing. It contains most basic
image processing algorithms, and some more sophisticated ones. ImLib3D images
are STL-compliant templated containers.
Imalab
Imalab is a powerful development environment for complex applications in computer vision. It
allows for flexible interactive experimentation with the vision modules developed in the Prima team,
and can be dynamically extended with new modules. A versatile scripting mechanism provides for fast and
convenient interactive development.
Editor's Note - Most of the documentation is in French.
IMLAB
IMLAB is a free open source graphical application for Scientific Image
Processing that runs in Windows, Linux and many other UNIX systems. It
supports multiple windows, data types including 32 bit integers, 32 bit
real numbers and complex numbers. It is implemented in C++ and also in C
to provide a very simple way to add new functions. It has many image
operations and supports several file formats.
IPL
Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) is a software library of highly
optimized functions for multimedia, audio, video, speech, computer vision, image and
signal processing.
IMPROMPTU
IMPROMPTU, which stands for IMage PROcessing Module for the Prototyping, Testing, and Utilization
of image analysis processes, is a software package for multi-dimensional image processing.
With IMPROMPTU, a user can construct an arbitrary sequence of operations to run automatically on an
input volume. This sequence, referred to as a process, can be made up of operations selected
from any of several categories. Each category, which represents one general type of
image-processing operation, contains a number of functions.
JHLabs
Jerry's Java Image Processing Pages. A great way to explore many image processing filters by experimenting
with Java applets.
Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API
The Java Advanced Imaging API provides a set of object-oriented interfaces that support a
simple, high-level programming model which lets you manipulate images easily.
MegaWave
MegaWave2 is a free software intended for image processing. It is made of a C library of modules, that contains original
algorithms written by researchers and a Unix/Linux package designed for the fast developpement of new image
processing algorithms.
Leptonica Library
This site contains well-tested C code for some basic image processing operations, along
with a description of the functions and some design methods. A full set of affine
transformations (translation, shear, rotation, scaling) on images of all
depths is included, with the exception that some of the scaling methods do not
work at all depths. There are also implementations of binary morphology, grayscale
morphology, convolution and rank order filters, and applications such as
jbig2 image processing and color quantization.
LTI-Lib
The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image
processing and computer vision. It has been developed at the Chair of Technical Computer
Science (Lehrstuhl fuer Technische Informatik) LTI at the Aachen University of Technology, as
part of many research projects in computer vision dealing with robotics, object recognition
and sign language and gesture recognition.
Lispix
Lispix is a public domain image analysis program for Microsoft Windows (PC), written and maintained by David Bright.
It features a collection of special purpose research tools for electron microscopy and spectral imaging at NIST.
Most of Lispix is written in Common Lisp.
LuaMat
LuaMat aims to provide a easy to use language to create visual effects and to
modify images. LuaMat is a fast way to use the most popular algorithms of
Image Processing and Computer Vision. As Lua, becoming the standard for
video-game scripting engines, LuaMat is fast and has a simple syntax.
The Mimas toolkit
Mimas was originally conceived as a platform for real-time machine vision
research. Its aim was and still is to reduce the turnaround time of new research
into the application workspace. It is written in C++ and is released in source
code form subject to the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Mavis
Mavis is computer vision software for mobile robots. It's part of an ongoing, group robotics project, called Leaf.
MIRIAD
MIRIAD (Multichannel Image Reconstruction, Image Analysis and Display) is a toolbox, in the form
of an environment with a large set of moderate-sized program which perform individual tasks, involving
calibration, mapping, deconvolution and image analysis of interferometric data. MIRIAD software is also
part of the Hat Creek telescope control software; data obtained from the telescopes is directly
written into MIRIAD format with a MIRIAD user interface.
Motion
Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is
able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can
detect motion.
tnimage
tnimage is a scientific image analysis program that allows you to create,
edit, analyze, and produce color prints of images. It is particularly useful
for analyzing images of SDS and agarose gels and X-ray or MRI images.
NeatVision
NeatVision is a free Java based image analysis and software
development environment, which provides high level access to a
wide range of image processing algorithms through well defined
and easy to use graphical interface. NeatVision is in its second
major release.
NIH IMAGE
NIH Image is a public domain image processing and analysis program for the
Macintosh. It was developed at the Research Services Branch (RSB) of the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH).
Editor's Note - The NIH IMAGE project is similar to ImageJ. In fact they are
documented side by side. ImageJ is recommended to be used by PC based users as NIH
IMAGE is a Mac based program.
OpenCV
OpenCV is an extensive open-source image processing library, built on the Intel Image
Processing Library (IPL). OpenCV aids commercial uses of computer vision in human-computer interface, robotics,
monitoring, biometrics and security by providing a free and open infrastructure
where the distributed efforts of the vision community can be consolidated and
performance optimized.
OpenVIDIA
The OpenVIDIA project implements computer vision algorithms on computer graphics hardware, using
OpenGL and Cg. The project provides useful example programs which run real time computer vision algorithms on
single or parallel graphics processing units(GPU).
Peter Kovesi Research
MATLAB and Octave Functions for Computer Vision and Image Processing.
Projective Vision Toolkit
The Projective Vision Toolkit (PVT) is a series of utilities that allows one to
take an image sequence and compute the fundamental matrix and trilinear tensor.
This can be used for such problems as camera selfcalibration, structure from motion,
camera motion annotation, image stabilization, 3D tracking and recognition, etc.
RAVL - Recognition And Vision Library
RAVL provides a base C++ class library, together with a range of computer vision, pattern
recognition and supporting tools. The aim of RAVL is to move software developed within the
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey, England for
research purposes into the public domain and to support its use in a wider community.
RoboRealm
Using RoboRealm you can create a low cost vision software solution with a standard webcam that allows you
to explore the very complex world of image analysis and image processing. Through
an easy to use analysis pipeline you can add image processing filters to translate
an image into robotic movements, computer actions, or just plain fun! RoboRealm
is free to download!
RobotVisionCAD
RobotVisionCAD or in short RvCAD is a computer aided design for Image Processing
and Computer Vision. RvCAD's GUI presents users with a view where users drag and
drop Image Processor Elements, and visually connecting them to form Image
Processing Pipeline. RvCAD supports real-time live video processing from
VideoForWindow, DirectShow(WDM) and Video4Linux on linux, compatible capture
device.
SPIDER
SPIDER (System for Processing Image Data from Electron microscopy and Related fields)
is an image processing system for electron microscopy.
TINA
TINA (TINA Is No Acronym) is an open source environment developed to accelerate the
process of image analysis research. TINA provides functionality to assist in
all areas of image analysis including handling of image, image feature and
geometrical data; statistical and numerical analysis of data; GUI development
as well as transmission and containment of data. TINA also provides a range
of high-level analysis techniques for both machine vision (3D object location,
2D object recognition, temporal-stereo depth estimation, etc) and medical
image analysis (MR tissue segmentation, blood flow analysis, etc).
Tekkotsu
Exploring Tekkotsu Programming on the Sony AIBO. Tekkotsu (see www.Tekkotsu.org) is an application development framework
for the Sony AIBO robot dog. ("Tekkotsu" literally means iron bones in Japanese, and refers to a metal
framework, such as the skeleton of a building.) At its lowest level, Tekkotsu provides primitives for
sensory processing, smooth control of effectors, and event-based communication.
Torch3vision
It's a machine vision library, written in simple C++ and
based on the Torch machine-learning library. This package contains Basic image processing
and feature extraction algorithms such as rotation, flip, photometric
normalizations (Histogram Equalization, Multiscale Retinex, Self-Quotient
Image or Gross-Brajovic), edge detection, 2D DCT, 2D FFT, 2D Gabor,
PCA to do Eigen-Faces, LDA to do Fisher-Faces
UTHSCSA ImageTool
UTHSCSA ImageTool (IT) is a free image processing and analysis program
for Microsoft Windows 9x, Windows ME or Windows NT. IT can acquire,
display, edit, analyze, process, compress, save and print gray scale
and color images.IT can read and write over 22 common file formats
including BMP, PCX, TIF, GIF and JPEG.
VXL
VXL (the Vision-something-Libraries) is a collection of C++ libraries designed for
computer vision research and implementation. It was created from TargetJr and
the IUE with the aim of making a light, fast and consistent system. VXL is
written in ANSI/ISO C++ and is designed to be portable over many platforms.
There are libraries covering numerical algorithms, image processing, co-ordinate systems,
camera geometry, stereo, video manipulation, structure recovery from motion,
probability modelling, GUI design, classification, robust estimation, feature
tracking, topology, structure manipulation, 3d imaging, and much more.
XMegaWave
XMegaWave (XMW) is a freeware graphical windows environment oriented towards image processing. The
development of XMW has been based on the collaboration between researchers from the University of
the Balearic Islands (Spain), the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and
the University of Paris IX Dauphine (France).
XVision
XVision provides an application independent set of tools for visual
feature tracking optimized to be simple to configure at the user level,
yet extremely fast to execute.
