Computer vision packages

A number of groups have developed packages of standard image processing data structures and operations to aid research in computer vision. Ones currently in use include the following.

• Image manipulation and simple image processing
  • xv plus pbmplus

• Image processing only (no mid-to-high level computer vision)
  • The HIPS Image Processing System
  • Khoros
  • LaboImage

• Image processing plus edge finders (C-like interpreted front-end language)
  • Matlab's image processing toolkit

• Tracking (C++ classes)
  • XVision

• Image processing plus mid-to-high level vision (C-like interpreted front-end language)
  • The Image Understanding Environment (IUE)
  • KBVision
  • Vista

• Image processing plus some mid-to-high level vision (LISP user interface)
  • Iowa Vision Package
  • OBVIUS
  • Radius common Development Environment (developed for the RADIUS project)

Although they differ in many details, these systems all share a common approach: provide the user with a set of pre-written C functions. Such pre-written code is, of course, very helpful. However, it is not a long-term solution to the vision programming problem, because these packages are large, hard to maintain, and not standard across sites.

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