Open Source Mac Image Processing Libraries
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View 9 business solutionsBrowse free open source Image Processing Libraries and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Image Processing Libraries by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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GLM
OpenGL Mathematics (GLM)
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. -
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Pillow
The friendly Python Imaging Library fork
If you've ever wondered or worried about the future of Python's Imaging Library, it's time to stop. Pillow is here to answer your concerns, and offer you more. Pillow is the friendly fork of the Python Imaging Library or PIL, a library that adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. Why turn to Pillow? Aside from offering extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and fairly powerful image processing capabilities, Pillow is setuptools compatible. While PIL is not officially over yet, with Pillow you can be assured of continuous integration testing, publicized development activity, and regular releases to the Python Package Index. -
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AwesomeBump
Open Source graphic tool and alternative to Insane Bump
AwesomeBump is a free and open source graphic app written using Qt library. It was made as an alternative to known gimp plugin Insane Bump or the commercial tool Crazy Bump. It is designed to generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion, metallic, roughness and other textures from a single image. Most of the image processing is done on GPU so the program runs very fast and all the parameters can be changed in real time. -
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Point Cloud Library
A standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image processing
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. -
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Emgu CV
Emgu CV is a cross platform .Net wrapper for OpenCV
Emgu CV is a cross platform .Net wrapper to the OpenCV image processing library. Allowing OpenCV functions to be called from .NET compatible languages such as C#, VB, VC++, IronPython etc. The wrapper can be compiled in Mono and run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. -
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SciPy
SciPy library main repository
This is the main repository for the SciPy library, one of the core packages that make up the SciPy stack. SciPy is an open source software used in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering, with modules for statistics, optimization, integration, linear algebra, signal and image processing, and many more. The SciPy library contains many of the user-friendly and efficient numerical routines, including those for numerical integration, interpolation, and optimization. SciPy is built to work with NumPy, a software that provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. Both SciPy and NumPy run on all popular operating systems, are fast and easy to install, and are powerful yet easy to use. They’re currently depended upon by numerous leading scientists and engineers all over the world. Try them for yourself! -
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NOTE: the project has moved to https://scipy.org/scipylib/ --- go there to find latest versions. This sourceforge project contains only old historical versions of the software. SciPy is package of tools for science and engineering for Python. It includes modules for statistics, optimization, integration, linear algebra, Fourier transforms, signal and image processing, ODE solvers, and more.
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JACo Watermark
Add watermark to any image or photo (batch processing available).
A free open source Java application created to help you apply watermarks to your pictures in order to protect them from unauthorized distribution. Different font, color, size and transparency texts or images can be added as a watermark. Batch processing is also provided. -
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BoofCV
BoofCV is an open source Java library for real-time computer vision.
BoofCV is an open source Java library for real-time computer vision and robotics applications. Written from scratch for ease of use and high performance, it provides both basic and advanced features needed for creating a computer vision system. Functionality include optimized low level image processing routines (e.g. convolution, interpolation, gradient) to high level functionality such as image stabilization. Released under an Apache 2.0 license for both academic and commercial use. -
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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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ImageSharp
A modern, cross-platform, 2D Graphics library for .NET
ImageSharp carries no native dependencies and can be installed anywhere that supports .NET Standard 2.0+, ImageSharp can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios. ImageSharp's API is unparalleled for it's ease of use. Designed from the ground up to be flexible and extensible, the library provides API endpoints for common image processing operations and the building blocks to allow for the development of additional operations. Complete support for jpeg, bmp, gif, pbm, png, tga, tiff, and webp with more formats on the way. Supports over 25 different pixel formats. Metadata editing support (IPTC EXIF). Colorspace transforms (RGB/CMYK/Grayscale/CIELab and many more). Over 40 common processing operations. Great performance and memory friendly; work with any dimensions (even hundreds of megapixels). ImageSharp is brimming with features. Common operations are only a few keystrokes away. -
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Jimp
An image processing library written entirely in JavaScript for Node
An image processing library for Node written entirely in JavaScript, with zero native dependencies. If you're using this library with TypeScript the method of importing slightly differs from JavaScript. Instead of using require, you must import it with ES6 default import scheme. If you're using a web bundles (webpack, rollup, parcel) you can benefit from using the module build of jimp. Using the module build will allow your bundler to understand your code better and exclude things you aren't using. If you're using webpack you can set process.browser to true and your build of jimp will exclude certain parts, making it load faster. The static Jimp.read method takes the path to a file, URL, dimensions, a Jimp instance or a buffer and returns a Promise. In some cases, you need to pass additional parameters with an image's URL. -
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scikit-image
Image processing in Python
scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing. It is available free of charge and free of restriction. We pride ourselves on high-quality, peer-reviewed code, written by an active community of volunteers. scikit-image builds on scipy.ndimage to provide a versatile set of image processing routines in Python. This library is developed by its community, and contributions are most welcome! Read about our mission, vision, and values and how we govern the project. Major proposals to the project are documented in SKIPs. The scikit-image community consists of anyone using or working with the project in any way. A community member can become a contributor by interacting directly with the project in concrete ways. -
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tracking.js
A modern approach for Computer Vision on the web
The tracking.js library brings different computer vision algorithms and techniques into the browser environment. By using modern HTML5 specifications, we enable you to do real-time color tracking, face detection and much more, all that with a lightweight core (~7 KB) and intuitive interface. To get started, download the project. This project includes all of the tracking.js examples, source code dependencies you'll need to get started. Unzip the project somewhere on your local drive. The package includes an initial version of the project you'll be working with. While you're working, you'll need a basic HTTP server to serve your pages. Test out the web server by loading the finished version of the project. The main goal of tracking.js is to provide those complex techniques in a simple and intuitive way on the web. We believe computer vision is important to improve people's life, bringing it to the web will make this future a reality a lot faster. -
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SMILI
Scientific Visualisation Made Easy
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. -
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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
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Orfeo ToolBox
OTB is an open-source C++ library for remote sensing images processing
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. -
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ImageNets is an computer vision and image processing extension to the OpenCV library for user-friendly programming of Robot Vision algorithms. ImageNets uses Qt by Nokia. ImageNets is ideal for education of image processing.
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cocolib / light field suite
CUDA library for continuous optimization and light field analysis
Library for continuous convex optimization in image analysis, together with a command line tool and Matlab interface. Implements several recent algorithms for inverse problems and image segmentation with total variation regularizers and vectorial multilabel transition costs. Also included is a suite for variational light field analysis, which ties into the HCI light field benchmark set and givens reference implementations for a number of our recently published algorithms. *** NOTE: documentation on the SourceForge page is outdated and not updated anymore, please visit http://cocolib.net *** -
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ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later. HOME @ http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/
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QCI_AstroEntangle_Refiner
NOTICE OF CONSOLIDATION & PARTNERSHIP PENDING As of April 2026, the 20
NOTICE OF CONSOLIDATION & PARTNERSHIP PENDING As of April 2026, the 20 pipelines of the QCAUS/PDPBioGen suites are undergoing consolidation for high-scale institutional research. Core 'Ford 2026' algorithms remain the proprietary IP of the Ford Peace and Justice Foundation. Academic users at partner institutions (MTSU) are currently performing validation; all other commercial inquiries must contact the author A collection of four interconnected open‑source projects that explore the quantum nature of the universe – from the early cosmos to extreme astrophysical environments. 📸 Live Demo The application is deployed on Streamlit Cloud: Live App test now: QCI AstroEntangle Refiner – FDM soliton physics & image processing Magnetar QED Explorer – Magnetar fields, dark photons & vacuum QED Primordial Photon–DarkPhoton Entanglement – Von Neumann evolution in an expanding universe QCIS (Quantum Cosmology Integration Suite) – Quantum‑corrected cosmological pert -
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An implementation of Bruhn et al.'s fast variational optical flow algorithm using the OpenCV image processing library. The code calculates dense flow fields with a user-specified level of precision.
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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.
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OpenCMISS-Zinc
A Library for Interactive Modelling and Visualisation
The OpenCMISS-Zinc Library (opencmiss.org/zinc), or Zinc, is a software library for building interactive graphical modelling and visualisation applications. Models are represented in Zinc as mathematical fields defined over domains, including finite elements with support for high-order basis functions, complex parameter mappings and time variation, and image-based fields. Further fields can be defined by mathematical expressions and algorithms on existing fields, including image processing filters. Zinc model data structures are dynamic, supporting interactive applications which programmatically create, destroy and modify parts of models. -
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JaToo Imager
View and alter images (batch processing available).
JaToo Imager is a Java Open Source application created to view and alter images. Batch processing is also provided.
