OpenSource/Freeware vision software

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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++.

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.