VXL, the Vision-something-Library, is a large collection of
open source C++
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libraries
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for
computer vision. The idea of the naming is to replace X with one of many letters to obtain the smaller library names, i.e. G (VGL) is a geometry library, N (VNL) is a numerics library, I (VIL) is an image processing library, etc. These libraries can be used for general scientific computing as well as computer vision. Some examples of usage can be seen online.
VXL is a larger-scale software engineering project with roots dating back to traditional computer vision environments from the 1990s, having libraries at multiple levels of complexities, many of them listing OpenCV as one of many dependencies. A similar approach at an even larger scale is taken by
Kitware __NOTOC__
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's KWIVER.
VXL core libraries are extremely stable and have been used in larger projects, both public and within companies, notably
ITK
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.
See also
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OpenCV
OpenCV (''Open Source Computer Vision Library'') is a library of programming functions mainly aimed at real-time computer vision. Originally developed by Intel, it was later supported by Willow Garage then Itseez (which was later acquired by In ...
References
External links
VXL Home PageVXD extension of VXL with development/experimental code.
Hacking VXL notes on programming with VXL on
Mac OS
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and
Linux
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.
Computer vision software
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