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	VIGRA Reference Manual

Installation

how to get started

Concepts

generic interface definitions

Utilities

Basic helper functionality needed throughout

Error Reporting

Exceptions and assertions

Mathematical tools

Number types, mathematical constants and functions, linear algebra etc.

Pixel Types

Non-scalar types such as RGBValue and TinyVector

Image Data Structures and Iterators

Images, image iterators, and supporting types and functions

Multi-Dimensional Arrays and Iterators

Arrays, iterators, and supporting types and functions for arbitrary dimensions

Image Import and Export

Conversion from and to other image data types

Color Space Conversions

Convert between RGB and other color spaces, such as L*u*v*, Y'PbPr

Image Processing

Point operators, image arithmetic, convolution, morphology

Image Analysis

Segmentation and feature extraction algorithms

Examples

Demonstration programs for VIGRA's usage

Credits and Changelog

Who contributed what?

VIGRA is a computer vision library that puts its main emphasize on flexible algorithms, because algorithms represent the principle know-how of this field. The library was consequently built using generic programming as introduced by Stepanov and Musser and exemplified in the C++ Standard Template Library. By writing a few adapters (image iterators and accessors) you can use VIGRA's algorithms on top of your data structures, within your environment. Alternatively, you can also use the data structures provided within VIGRA, which can be easily adapted to a wide range of applications. VIGRA's flexibility comes almost for free: Since the design uses compile-time polymorphism (templates), performance of the compiled program approaches that of a traditional, hand tuned, inflexible, solution.

VIGRA's design is documented in the chapter "Reusable Software in Computer Vision" by Ullrich Köthe, in: B. Jähne, H. Haußecker, P. Geißler: "Handbook on Computer Vision and Applications", volume 3, Acadamic Press, 1999. If you don't have the book, you may read a draft of this article. A shorter article "STL Style Generic Programming with Images" describing some of the ideas has appeared in the January 2000 issue of C++ Report Magazine. The most comprehensive source of information is U. Köthe's PhD thesis "Generische Programmierung für die Bildverarbeitung". However, this is written in German.

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Documentation

The documentation can be found in ${prefix}/doc/vigra, the start file is ${prefix}/doc/vigra/index.html (this file).
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© Ullrich Köthe (koethe@informatik.uni-hamburg.de) Cognitive Systems Group, University of Hamburg, Germany

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