Opencv

Advances in Engineering Software 35 (2004) 527–536 www.elsevier.com/locate/advengsoft Ch OpenCV for interactive open architecture computer vision
Qingcang Yua, Harry H. Chenga,*, Wayne W. Chengb, Xiaodong Zhoub a Integration Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering,
University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA b SoftIntegration, Inc., 216 F Street, 68 Davis, CA 95616, USA
Received 17 May 2003; received in revised form 29 April 2004; accepted 21 May 2004
Available online 24 July 2004

Abstract
In this paper, design and implementation of an interactive open architecture computer vision software package called Ch OpenCV is presented. Benefiting from both Ch and OpenCV, Ch OpenCV has many salient features. It is interactive, capable of interface with binary static or dynamical C/Cþþ libraries, integrated with advanced numerical features and embeddable. It is especially suitable for rapid prototyping, web-based applications, and teaching and learning about computer vision. Applications of Ch OpenCV including web-based image processing are illustrated with examples. q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: C/Cþ þ interpreter; Ch; Open CV; Computer vision; Image processing

1. Introduction
In the past decades, the exponential growth of processor speed and memory capacity has led to dramatic broadening of research areas and its applications in computer vision. A considerable number of computer vision and image processing software packages have been developed for various applications. For computational speed, most of these software packages are written in C/Cþ þ . For example, TargetJr [1] and its successor VXL [2] are collections of Cþ þ libraries, which provide a modular and portable platform for development of vision algorithms.
Gandalf [3] is a computer vision and numerical library, which allows users to develop new portable applications.
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