Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

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.

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 LinkedIn profile.

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.

• Stan Birchfield's KLT tracker
• Open SURF
• Pan-o-Matic
• OpenCV
• The best IDE I have ever used: IntelliJ IDE

Dependencies

BoofCV leverages several other libraries.

• Geometric Regression Library
  • Geometric transforms and distance operations
• EJML
  • Linear algebra
• Caliper
  • Internal micro benchmarks
• JUnit
  • Unit testing