Re: Computer vision and Image processing functions

Fred Weinhaus <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:42:59 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.image-magick.devel
Message-ID <p06240801c744868c79c8@[192.168.1.2]>
>I was looking for an image processing library which can be used in
>scientific applications.
>What I've found is that some features like blob analysis and object
>detection, counting etc are not available in ImageMagick.
>Sorry If I've missed something from the specifications of ImageMagick.
>Is it within the scope of the ImageMagick project to have
>functionality that will be useful for
>Industrial and Machine vision, Computer vision research and other
>Scientific use ?
>I like ImageMagick and have used it a fair bit as a user from Ruby,
>PHP, C and the command line for basic stuff
>but I would now like to work on the library itself but was wondering
>if machine vision applications are welcome in ImageMagick.
>One of the reasons I want ImageMagick to have these features is
>because ImageMagick unlike OpenCV has bindings for quite a few
>languages.
>What you guys think about this?


I think it would be great if you or someone else were to develop and 
contribute functions to IM for blob analysis or any other things 
related to Industrial and/or Machine vision. I suspect they would be 
most welcome.