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= Acknowledgements =
BoofCV has been entirely developed by myself ([https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-abeles-59b2603 Peter Abeles]) and is based off my experience in developing computer vision and robotic solutions over the past 10+ years or so.  The main motivation for this work is to create the tools that I wish I always wish I had in my preferred development environment.  I hope to create a fast and easy to use computer vision library which is stable and relatively bug free.  Java was selected for development because it's a much easier language to maintain large projects.  Primarily due to the high quality of its development tools, which are still years ahead of anything out there in C/C++.  While the ability to refactor and change the code's fundamental structure isn't unique to tools in Java, it actually works very well.  That can't be said for C++ where every tool I have tried likes to occasionally destroy the code base after a refactor.


BoofCV has been entirely developed by myself (Peter Abeles) and is based off my experience in developing computer vision and robotic solutions over the past 10+ years or so.  The main motivation for this work is to create the tools that I wish I always wish I had in my preferred development environment.  I hope to create a fast and easy to use computer vision library which is stable and relatively bug free.  Java was selected for development (despite a lot of prejustice against it in the community) because its development tools are still years ahead of anything out there in C/C++.  The ability to refactor and change the code's fundamental structure on the fly in a fraction of a second has allowed its rapid development.
Most of BoofCV's development is self supported.  In recent years I've been luck enough to find employers who are supportive of open source software.  Contributions of any type are welcomed!


Currently BoofCV's development is entirely self supported.  Another reason for its development is to get more visibility and hopefully bring in some business.  I'm currently looking for contract work which is favorable to the development of open source tools.  For potential consulting or collaborative work feel free to contract me using my [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-abeles/3/260/59b| LinkedIn profile].
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While few 3rd party libraries have been included inside of BoofCV, the open source movement in general has aided in its development.  Whenever possible I looked at other libraries and try to learn from their API and or code to create the fastest and most stable algorithms.  The following is a list of other projects of web pages which helped contribute to BoofCV in some fashion.
! Organizations !! Contribution
 
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* [http://www.ces.clemson.edu/~stb/klt/ Stan Birchfield's KLT tracker]
| Romotive || Current Employeer and allows code to be donated!
* [http://www.chrisevansdev.com/computer-vision-opensurf.html Open SURF]
|-
* [http://aorlinsk2.free.fr/panomatic/ Pan-o-Matic]
| style="background-color: black;text-align: center;"| [[File:Ihmc-logo.png|frameless|125px|link=http://www.ihmc.us/]] || Supported several new features, like object tracking.
* [http://opencv.willowgarage.com/ OpenCV]
|-
* [http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ The best IDE I have ever used: IntelliJ IDE].  Also would like to thank them for providing a free license for this project!
| [[File:Logo_intellij_idea.jpg|frameless|200px|link=http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/]] || The best IDE ever created.  Sponsor.
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= Dependencies =
= Dependencies =
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* [http://georegression.org/ Geometric Regression Library]
* [http://georegression.org/ Geometric Regression Library]
** Geometric transforms and distance operations
** Geometric transforms and distance operations
* [http://code.google.com/p/efficient-java-matrix-library/ EJML]
* [http://ejml.org/ EJML]
** Linear algebra
** Linear algebra
* [http://code.google.com/p/caliper/ Caliper]
* [http://ddogleg.org/ DDogleg]
** Internal micro benchmarks
** Numerics
* [http://www.junit.org/ JUnit ]
* [http://www.junit.org/ JUnit ]
** Unit testing
** Unit testing
= Other Libraries =
No one lives in a vacume and here's a list of other computer vision websites I've found useful.
* [http://www.vlfeat.org/ VLFeat]
* [http://www.ces.clemson.edu/~stb/klt/ Stan Birchfield's KLT tracker]
* [http://www.chrisevansdev.com/computer-vision-opensurf.html Open SURF]
* [http://aorlinsk2.free.fr/panomatic/ Pan-o-Matic]
* [http://opencv.willowgarage.com/ OpenCV]

Latest revision as of 10:20, 14 November 2015

BoofCV has been entirely developed by myself (Peter Abeles) and is based off my experience in developing computer vision and robotic solutions over the past 10+ years or so. The main motivation for this work is to create the tools that I wish I always wish I had in my preferred development environment. I hope to create a fast and easy to use computer vision library which is stable and relatively bug free. Java was selected for development because it's a much easier language to maintain large projects. Primarily due to the high quality of its development tools, which are still years ahead of anything out there in C/C++. While the ability to refactor and change the code's fundamental structure isn't unique to tools in Java, it actually works very well. That can't be said for C++ where every tool I have tried likes to occasionally destroy the code base after a refactor.

Most of BoofCV's development is self supported. In recent years I've been luck enough to find employers who are supportive of open source software. Contributions of any type are welcomed!

Organizations Contribution
Romotive Current Employeer and allows code to be donated!
Ihmc-logo.png Supported several new features, like object tracking.
Logo intellij idea.jpg The best IDE ever created. Sponsor.

Dependencies

BoofCV leverages several other libraries.

Other Libraries

No one lives in a vacume and here's a list of other computer vision websites I've found useful.

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