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Computer Vision for Python

29 points| mjtokelly | 17 years ago |code.google.com | reply

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[+] lilspikey|17 years ago|reply
I used Python + OpenCV during my MSc for face-detection: http://littlespikeyland.com/msc/project/ back in 2003/2004, so I ended up doing a lot of SWIG wrapping. A lot of the heavy lifting was done in C/C++, as I was running lots of simulations for a evolutionary algorithm.

I've used ctypes for a few projects now and wish I could have used it for that project. Might have meant I could have ditched a lot of the C/C++.

[+] manvsmachine|17 years ago|reply
Great find, I had been looking into trying to extend the PIL to support some CV features; had no idea that this was out there.

God, I really could've used that sample K-Means algorithm during last semester when I was taking DIP.

[+] tocomment|17 years ago|reply
How can it be a pure Python package? Surely you need something of openCV installed. Am I reading it wrong?
[+] chengmi|17 years ago|reply
It's a Python interface to OpenCV's shared libraries. You still need the OpenCV binaries to be installed, though not necessarily the source.