Open Source Linux Computer Vision Libraries
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View 20 business solutionsBrowse free open source Computer Vision Libraries and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Computer Vision Libraries by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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OpenCV
Open Source Computer Vision Library
The Open Source Computer Vision Library has >2500 algorithms, extensive documentation and sample code for real-time computer vision. It works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS in your browser through JavaScript. Languages: C++, Python, Julia, Javascript Homepage: https://opencv.org Q&A forum: https://forum.opencv.org/ Documentation: https://docs.opencv.org Source code: https://github.com/opencv Please pay special attention to our tutorials! https://docs.opencv.org/master Books about the OpenCV are described here: https://opencv.org/books.html -
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Armadillo
fast C++ library for linear algebra & scientific computing
* Fast C++ library for linear algebra (matrix maths) and scientific computing * Easy to use functions and syntax, deliberately similar to Matlab / Octave * Uses template meta-programming techniques to increase efficiency * Provides user-friendly wrappers for OpenBLAS, Intel MKL, LAPACK, ATLAS, ARPACK, SuperLU and FFTW libraries * Useful for machine learning, pattern recognition, signal processing, bioinformatics, statistics, finance, etc. * Downloads: http://arma.sourceforge.net/download.html * Documentation: http://arma.sourceforge.net/docs.html * Bug reports: http://arma.sourceforge.net/faq.html * Git repo: https://gitlab.com/conradsnicta/armadillo-code -
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MESHROOM
3D reconstruction software
Photogrammetry is the science of making measurements from photographs. It infers the geometry of a scene from a set of unordered photographies or videos. Photography is the projection of a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, losing depth information. The goal of photogrammetry is to reverse this process. The dense modeling of the scene is the result yielded by chaining two computer vision-based pipelines, “Structure-from-Motion” (SfM) and “Multi View Stereo” (MVS). Fusion of Multi-bracketing LDR images into HDR. Alignment of panorama images. Support for fisheye optics. Automatically estimate fisheye circle or manually edit it. Take advantage of motorized-head file. Easy to integrate in your Renderfarm System. Add specific rules to select the most suitable machines regarding CPU, RAM, GPU requirements of each Node. -
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DensePose
A real-time approach for mapping all human pixels of 2D RGB images
DensePose is a computer vision system that maps all human pixels in an RGB image to the 3D surface of a human body model. It extends human pose estimation from predicting joint keypoints to providing dense correspondences between 2D images and a canonical 3D mesh (such as the SMPL model). This enables detailed understanding of human shape, motion, and surface appearance directly from images or videos. The repository includes the DensePose network architecture, training code, pretrained models, and dataset tools for annotation and visualization. DensePose is widely used in augmented reality, motion capture, virtual try-on, and visual effects applications because it enables real-time 3D human mapping from 2D inputs. The model architecture builds on Mask R-CNN, using additional regression heads to predict UV coordinates that map image pixels to 3D surfaces. -
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OpenCV
Open Source Computer Vision Library
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is a comprehensive open-source library for computer vision, machine learning, and image processing. It enables developers to build real-time vision applications ranging from facial recognition to object tracking. OpenCV supports a wide range of programming languages including C++, Python, and Java, and is optimized for both CPU and GPU operations. -
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COLMAP
Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo
COLMAP is a general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface. It offers a wide range of features for the reconstruction of ordered and unordered image collections. The software is licensed under the new BSD license. -
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AirSim
A simulator for drones, cars and more, built on Unreal Engine
AirSim is an open-source, cross platform simulator for drones, cars and more vehicles, built on Unreal Engine with an experimental Unity release in the works. It supports software-in-the-loop simulation with popular flight controllers such as PX4 & ArduPilot and hardware-in-loop with PX4 for physically and visually realistic simulations. It is developed as an Unreal plugin that can simply be dropped into any Unreal environment. AirSim's development is oriented towards the goal of creating a platform for AI research to experiment with deep learning, computer vision and reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. For this purpose, AirSim also exposes APIs to retrieve data and control vehicles in a platform independent way. AirSim is fully enabled for multiple vehicles. This capability allows you to create multiple vehicles easily and use APIs to control them. -
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IIDC Camera Control Library
Capture and control API for IIDC compliant cameras
libdc1394 is a library that provides a high level programming interface for application developers who wish to control and capture streams from IEEE 1394 based cameras that conform to the 1394-based Digital Camera Specifications (also known as the IIDC or DCAM Specifications). libdc1394 also supports some USB cameras that are IIDC compliant. Besides capture and control, libdc1394 provides a full set of colour space conversion functions (including RAW decoding), vendor specific functions and direct camera register access. Keywords: ieee1394, IIDC, DCAM, firewire, USB, machine vision, computer vision, video capture, library -
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OpenVINO
OpenVINO™ Toolkit repository
OpenVINO™ is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference. Boost deep learning performance in computer vision, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing and other common tasks. Use models trained with popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch and more. Reduce resource demands and efficiently deploy on a range of Intel® platforms from edge to cloud. This open-source version includes several components: namely Model Optimizer, OpenVINO™ Runtime, Post-Training Optimization Tool, as well as CPU, GPU, MYRIAD, multi device and heterogeneous plugins to accelerate deep learning inferencing on Intel® CPUs and Intel® Processor Graphics. It supports pre-trained models from the Open Model Zoo, along with 100+ open source and public models in popular formats such as TensorFlow, ONNX, PaddlePaddle, MXNet, Caffe, Kaldi. -
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Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT)
Interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision
Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) is a free and open source, interactive online tool for annotating videos and images for Computer Vision algorithms. It offers many powerful features, including automatic annotation using deep learning models, interpolation of bounding boxes between key frames, LDAP and more. It is being used by its own professional data annotation team to annotate millions of objects with different properties. The UX and UI were also specially developed by the team for computer vision tasks. CVAT supports several annotation formats. Format selection can be done after clicking on the Upload annotation and Dump annotation buttons. -
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OpenFace
A state-of-the-art facial behavior analysis toolkit
OpenFace is an advanced facial behavior analysis toolkit intended for computer vision and machine learning researchers, those in the affective computing community, and those who are simply interested in creating interactive applications based on facial behavior analysis. The OpenFace toolkit is capable of performing several complex facial analysis tasks, including facial landmark detection, eye-gaze estimation, head pose estimation and facial action unit recognition. OpenFace is able to deliver state-of-the-art results in all of these mentioned tasks. OpenFace is available for Windows, Ubuntu and macOS installations. It is capable of real-time performance and does not need to run on any specialist hardware, a simple webcam will suffice. -
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GoogleTest
Google Testing and Mocking Framework
GoogleTest is Google's C++ mocking and test framework. It's used by many internal projects at Google, as well as a number of notable projects such as The Chromium projects, the OpenCV computer vision library, and the LLVM compiler. This GoogleTest project is actually a union of what used to be two separate projects: the old GoogleTest and GoogleMock, an extension of GoogleTest for writing and using C++ mock classes. Since they were so closely related, they were merged to create an even better GoogleTest. GoogleTest features an xUnit test framework, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, among many others. It's been used on a variety of platforms, including Cygwin, Symbian, MinGW and PlatformIO. -
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GIMP ML
AI for GNU Image Manipulation Program
This repository introduces GIMP3-ML, a set of Python plugins for the widely popular GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). It enables the use of recent advances in computer vision to the conventional image editing pipeline. Applications from deep learning such as monocular depth estimation, semantic segmentation, mask generative adversarial networks, image super-resolution, de-noising and coloring have been incorporated with GIMP through Python-based plugins. Additionally, operations on images such as edge detection and color clustering have also been added. GIMP-ML relies on standard Python packages such as numpy, scikit-image, pillow, pytorch, open-cv, scipy. In addition, GIMP-ML also aims to bring the benefits of using deep learning networks used for computer vision tasks to routine image processing workflows. -
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ImageAI
A python library built to empower developers
ImageAI is an easy-to-use Computer Vision Python library that empowers developers to easily integrate state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence features into their new and existing applications and systems. It is used by thousands of developers, students, researchers, tutors and experts in corporate organizations around the world. You will find features supported, links to official documentation as well as articles on ImageAI. ImageAI is widely used around the world by professionals, students, research groups and businesses. ImageAI provides API to recognize 1000 different objects in a picture using pre-trained models that were trained on the ImageNet-1000 dataset. The model implementations provided are SqueezeNet, ResNet, InceptionV3 and DenseNet. ImageAI provides API to detect, locate and identify 80 most common objects in everyday life in a picture using pre-trained models that were trained on the COCO Dataset. -
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OpenPose
Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, etc.
OpenPose has represented the first real-time multi-person system to jointly detect human body, hand, facial, and foot keypoints (in total 135 keypoints) on single images. It is authored by Ginés Hidalgo, Zhe Cao, Tomas Simon, Shih-En Wei, Yaadhav Raaj, Hanbyul Joo, and Yaser Sheikh. It is maintained by Ginés Hidalgo and Yaadhav Raaj. OpenPose would not be possible without the CMU Panoptic Studio dataset. We would also like to thank all the people who has helped OpenPose in any way. 15, 18 or 25-keypoint body/foot keypoint estimation, including 6 foot keypoints. Runtime invariant to number of detected people. 2x21-keypoint hand keypoint estimation. Runtime depends on number of detected people. 70-keypoint face keypoint estimation. Runtime depends on number of detected people. Input: Image, video, webcam, Flir/Point Grey, IP camera, and support to add your own custom input source (e.g., depth camera). -
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SAM 2
The repository provides code for running inference with SAM 2
SAM2 is a next-generation version of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), designed to improve performance, generalization, and efficiency in promptable image segmentation tasks. It retains the core promptable interface—accepting points, boxes, or masks—but incorporates architectural and training enhancements to produce higher-fidelity masks, better boundary adherence, and robustness to complex scenes. The updated model is optimized for faster inference and lower memory use, enabling real-time interactivity even on larger images or constrained hardware. SAM2 comes with pretrained weights and easy-to-use APIs, enabling developers and researchers to integrate promptable segmentation into annotation tools, vision pipelines, or downstream tasks. The project also includes scripts and notebooks to compare SAM2 against SAM on edge cases, benchmarks showing improvements, and evaluation suites to measure mask quality metrics like IoU and boundary error. -
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torchvision
Datasets, transforms and models specific to Computer Vision
The torchvision package consists of popular datasets, model architectures, and common image transformations for computer vision. We recommend Anaconda as Python package management system. Torchvision currently supports Pillow (default), Pillow-SIMD, which is a much faster drop-in replacement for Pillow with SIMD, if installed will be used as the default. Also, accimage, if installed can be activated by calling torchvision.set_image_backend('accimage'), libpng, which can be installed via conda conda install libpng or any of the package managers for debian-based and RHEL-based Linux distributions, and libjpeg, which can be installed via conda conda install jpeg or any of the package managers for debian-based and RHEL-based Linux distributions. It supports libjpeg-turbo as well. libpng and libjpeg must be available at compilation time in order to be available. TorchVision also offers a C++ API that contains C++ equivalent of python models. -
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reacTIVision is a computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of markers attached on physical objects, and the creation of multi-touch surfaces. It was designed for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces.
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ArrayFire
ArrayFire, a general purpose GPU library
ArrayFire is a general-purpose tensor library that simplifies the process of software development for the parallel architectures found in CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware acceleration devices. The library serves users in every technical computing market. Data structures in ArrayFire are smartly managed to avoid costly memory transfers and to take advantage of each performance feature provided by the underlying hardware. The community of ArrayFire developers invites you to build with us if you're interested and able to write top performing tensor functions. Together we can fulfill The ArrayFire Mission under an excellent Code of Conduct that promotes a respectful and friendly building experience. Rigorous benchmarks and tests ensuring top performance and numerical accuracy. Cross-platform compatibility with support for CUDA, OpenCL, and native CPU on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Built-in visualization functions through Forge. -
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Diffgram
Training data (data labeling, annotation, workflow) for all data types
From ingesting data to exploring it, annotating it, and managing workflows. Diffgram is a single application that will improve your data labeling and bring all aspects of training data under a single roof. Diffgram is world’s first truly open source training data platform that focuses on giving its users an unlimited experience. This is aimed to reduce your data labeling bills and increase your Training Data Quality. Training Data is the art of supervising machines through data. This includes the activities of annotation, which produces structured data; ready to be consumed by a machine learning model. Annotation is required because raw media is considered to be unstructured and not usable without it. That’s why training data is required for many modern machine learning use cases including computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. -
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LLaVA
Visual Instruction Tuning: Large Language-and-Vision Assistant
Visual instruction tuning towards large language and vision models with GPT-4 level capabilities. -
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qiji-font
Typeface from Ming Dynasty woodblock printed books
Typeface from Ming Dynasty woodblock printed books. A Ming typeface. Extracted from Ming Dynasty woodblock printed books (凌閔刻本). Using semi-automatic computer vision and OCR. Open-source. A work in progress. Named in honor of 閔齊伋, a 16th-century printer. Intended to be used with Kenyan-lang, the Classical Chinese programming language. Download high-resolution PDFs and split pages into images. Manually lay a grid on top of each page to generate bounding boxes for characters (potentially replaceable by an automatic corner-detection algorithm). Generate a low-poly mask for each character on the grid, and save the thumbnails (using OpenCV). First, red channel is subtracted from the grayscale, in order to clean the annotations printed in red ink. Next, the image is thresholded and fed into the contour-tracing algorithm. A metric is then used to discard shapes that are unlikely to be part of the character in interest. -
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Datasets
Hub of ready-to-use datasets for ML models
Datasets is a library for easily accessing and sharing datasets, and evaluation metrics for Natural Language Processing (NLP), computer vision, and audio tasks. Load a dataset in a single line of code, and use our powerful data processing methods to quickly get your dataset ready for training in a deep learning model. Backed by the Apache Arrow format, process large datasets with zero-copy reads without any memory constraints for optimal speed and efficiency. We also feature a deep integration with the Hugging Face Hub, allowing you to easily load and share a dataset with the wider NLP community. There are currently over 2658 datasets, and more than 34 metrics available. Datasets naturally frees the user from RAM memory limitation, all datasets are memory-mapped using an efficient zero-serialization cost backend (Apache Arrow). Smart caching: never wait for your data to process several times. -
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FiftyOne
The open-source tool for building high-quality datasets
The open-source tool for building high-quality datasets and computer vision models. Nothing hinders the success of machine learning systems more than poor-quality data. And without the right tools, improving a model can be time-consuming and inefficient. FiftyOne supercharges your machine learning workflows by enabling you to visualize datasets and interpret models faster and more effectively. Improving data quality and understanding your model’s failure modes are the most impactful ways to boost the performance of your model. FiftyOne provides the building blocks for optimizing your dataset analysis pipeline. Use it to get hands-on with your data, including visualizing complex labels, evaluating your models, exploring scenarios of interest, identifying failure modes, finding annotation mistakes, and much more! Surveys show that machine learning engineers spend over half of their time wrangling data, but it doesn't have to be that way. -
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Machine Learning PyTorch Scikit-Learn
Code Repository for Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn
Initially, this project started as the 4th edition of Python Machine Learning. However, after putting so much passion and hard work into the changes and new topics, we thought it deserved a new title. So, what’s new? There are many contents and additions, including the switch from TensorFlow to PyTorch, new chapters on graph neural networks and transformers, a new section on gradient boosting, and many more that I will detail in a separate blog post. For those who are interested in knowing what this book covers in general, I’d describe it as a comprehensive resource on the fundamental concepts of machine learning and deep learning. The first half of the book introduces readers to machine learning using scikit-learn, the defacto approach for working with tabular datasets. Then, the second half of this book focuses on deep learning, including applications to natural language processing and computer vision.
