Dlib is a general purpose

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software

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written in the programming language

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. Its design is heavily influenced by ideas from design by contract and

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. Thus it is, first and foremost, a set of independent software components. It is

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released under a

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. Since development began in 2002, Dlib has grown to include a wide variety of tools. As of 2016, it contains software components for dealing with networking, threads,

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, data mining,

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and text parsing,

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s, and many other tasks. In recent years, much of the development has been focused on creating a broad set of statistical machine learning tools and in 2009 Dlib was published in the ''

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''. Since then it has been used in a wide range of domains.Nakashima, Yuta, Noboru Babaguchi, and Jianping Fan. "Detecting intended human objects in human-captured videos." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on. IEEE, 2010.

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DLib: Library for Machine Learning
{{DEFAULTSORT:dlib C++ libraries C++ numerical libraries Computer vision software Data mining and machine learning software Free software programmed in C++ Free statistical software Software using the Boost license

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