Open Source C++ Image Processing Libraries

OpenGL Mathematics (GLM) is a header only C++ mathematics library for graphics software based on the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) specifications. GLM provides classes and functions designed and implemented with the same naming conventions and functionality than GLSL so that anyone who knows GLSL, can use GLM as well in C++. This project isn't limited to GLSL features. An extension system, based on the GLSL extension conventions, provides extended capabilities: matrix transformations, quaternions, data packing, random numbers, noise, etc. This library works perfectly with OpenGL but it also ensures interoperability with other third party libraries and SDK. It is a good candidate for software rendering (raytracing / rasterisation), image processing, physics simulations and any development context that requires a simple and convenient mathematics library. GLM is written in C++98 but can take advantage of C++11 when supported by the compiler.

The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing. PCL is released under the terms of the BSD license, and thus free for commercial and research use. Whether you’ve just discovered PCL or you’re a long time veteran, this page contains links to a set of resources that will help consolidate your knowledge on PCL and 3D processing. An additional Wiki resource for developers is available too. To simplify both usage and development, we split PCL into a series of modular libraries. PCL is cross-platform, and has been successfully compiled and deployed on Linux, MacOS, Windows, and Android. To simplify development, PCL is split into a series of smaller code libraries, that can be compiled separately. This modularity is important for distributing PCL on platforms with reduced computational or size constraints.

The Simd Library is a free open source image processing library, designed for C and C++ programmers. It provides many useful high performance algorithms for image processing such as: pixel format conversion, image scaling and filtration, extraction of statistic information from images, motion detection, object detection (HAAR and LBP classifier cascades) and classification, neural network. The algorithms are optimized with using of different SIMD CPU extensions. In particular the library supports following CPU extensions: SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2 and AVX-512 for x86/x64, VMX(Altivec) and VSX(Power7) for PowerPC, NEON for ARM. The Simd Library has C API and also contains useful C++ classes and functions to facilitate access to C API. The library supports dynamic and static linking, 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, Android and Linux, MSVS, G++ and Clang compilers, MSVS project and CMake build systems.

CxImage is a C++ image processing library. It can load, save, display, transform images in a very simple and fast way, with transparency, multiple layers and selections, support for BMP GIF JPG PNG MNG TIF ICO TGA PCX J2K JBG RAS PNM RAW PSD

The Orfeo Toolbox is a C++ library for high resolution remote sensing image processing. It is developped by CNES in the frame of the ORFEO program. More information is available at www.orfeo-toolbox.org It is based on the medical image processing library ITK and offers particular functionalities for remote sensing image processing in general and for high spatial resolution images in particular. Targeted algorithms for high resolution optical images (SPOT, Quickbird, Worldview, Landsat, Ikonos), hyperspectral sensors (Hyperion) or SAR (TerraSarX, ERS, Palsar) are available. Orfeo ToolBox has three main access depending on the category of user: write processing chains in C++ using existing filters or creating new ones, use the OTB applications, which is a plugin-based framework allowing to extend high-level processing chains from various environment ( command-line, QT, QGis, Python....) or use Monteverdi, a software for everyday life image manipulation and analysis.

The Simple Medical Imaging Library Interface (SMILI), pronounced 'smilie', is an open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use medical imaging viewer and library for all major operating systems. The main sMILX application features for viewing n-D images, vector images, DICOMs, anonymizing, shape analysis and models/surfaces with easy drag and drop functions. It also features a number of standard processing algorithms for smoothing, thresholding, masking etc. images and models, both with graphical user interfaces and/or via the command-line. See our YouTube channel for tutorial videos via the homepage. The applications are all built out of a uniform user-interface framework that provides a very high level (Qt) interface to powerful image processing and scientific visualisation algorithms from the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and Visualisation Toolkit (VTK). The framework allows one to build stand-alone medical imaging applications quickly and easily.

itom is an open source software suite for operating measurement systems, laboratory automation and data evaluation. One main application of itom is the development and operation of sensor and measurement system for instance in a laboratory environment. Therefore, the software has to be able to communicate with a wide range of different hardware systems, such as cameras or actuators and should provide a diversified and as complete as possible set of evaluation and data processing methods. Additionally, the rapid prototyping of modern measurement and inspection setups requires a system, where parameters or components can easily be changed at runtime, necessitating the availability of an embedded scripting language. Finally, when operating a measurement system, it is also desirable to extend the graphical user interface by system adapted dialogs and windows. The project has been moved mid 2023 to github: https://itom-project.github.io https://github.com/itom-project

The free-vision project aims at creating a library for computer vision related functions, including camera capture interface, stereo, image processing, camera calibration and so on.

VIPS is an image processing suite designed for extremely large images and colorimetry. It consists of a powerful re-usable library and a graphical user interface. http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk

This software provides libraries and command line tools for the processing and analysis of gray scale medical images.

LCUI is a freely available software library to create GUI application, it is written in C, support the use XML and CSS describe the graphical interface, you can use it to make some simple effects. The above description and screenshots is for the version 1.0.0 (+), and the 1.0.0 version is still in development, it is not officially released, please do not use old versions of "files "page to download as version 1.0.0.

The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) is a C++ class library for the development of medical imaging software with a high degree of interaction. The example application features DICOM viewing, measurement, image segmentation and registration.

Open Source Remote Sensing OSSIM project, pronounced "awesome", will leverage existing algorithms/tools/packages from the open source community in construction of the ultimate Remote Sensing/Image Processing/GIS package. osgPlanet extends OSSIM and Op

This Library was released by Acute3D for educational purposes. It is distributed under a BSD license. Some derivative works are used for teaching C++ development and image processing at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. The Library is composed of 4 modules: - Common: base containers, random number generation, timer functions. - Images: image I/O and basic image processing algorithms. - LinAlg: simple wrappers for linear algebra algorithms. - Graphics: basic graphical user interface based on wxWidgets.

amilab is a tool for image processing that includes its own scripting language, and an interface for visualizing 2d/3d images and 3d surfaces. Its main application is medical image processing.

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.

The CVR-Lib (Computer Vision and Robotics Library) is a C++ object oriented library for computer vision. It provides lots of functionality to solve mathematical problems, many image processing and analysis algorithms, classification tools, and much more.

The Digital Image Processing Library (dimple) is a C++ class/algorithm library for image processing. Dimple consists of a wide range of image processing routines which can be viewed as low- to mid- level vision tasks.

A simple rendering, image processing engine. Includes a framework width (multiplatform) event handling, plugin management, a templated based math library and some exotic features like general linear camera, gpu based (OpenGL) image process...

Foad is an open source software which receive an EKG Signal from scanner, WFDB database or heart sensors. Finding patient disease started by taking Fourier transform (FFT) from input signal and extract a single cycle. Based on some heuristic algorithm the most important feature like P , Q , R , S , T captured and feed to trained neural network. and so the final decision made by CNN library. As mentioned before this software also capable do some image processing on scanned paper to lower the final costs.

Foresight is a LGPLed wrapper that currently brings together the Intel IPL, Intel OpenCV, ImageMagick, and the Matrox MIL. The ultimate goal is to provide a standard interface for any number of acquisition and image processing libraries.

GENIAL is a C++ library for signal and image processing. It uses template-generic techniques, multi threading, cache optimization and SIMD instructions for Pentium (MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3) to achieve high performance: FFT,DCT,Convolution,Linear Algebra...

Generic Image processing Library of Library (GILL) is a cross-platform and GP-based C++ image processing architecture helping to develop flexible and expandable image processing library.

GLIP-Lib is an OpenGL image processing library written in C++. It features all the necessary tools to quickly build texture filters and pipelines and operate them on the GPU.

IMGH (IMaGe library in C++ Header files) is a simple, light-weight, and cross-platform image processing library, that supports simple editing and drawing, multiple pixel formats (pointers and float). Designed for developers and researchers.