Software and Interfaces

Integrating Vision Toolkit

Implementation

The Integrating Vision Toolkit (IVT) is an image processing library that has been developed by the author of this monograph. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) in source code and can be downloaded from SourceForge.net. Detailed instructions for the installation of the IVT can be found on the project webpage.

The highest goal with the development of the IVT was to lay a clean, object-oriented architecture as foundation and at the same time to offer efficient implementations of the algorithms. A core component, by which the IVT stands out from most image processing libraries - and also from the popular OpenCV - is the abstraction of image acquisition by an appropriate camera interface. This enables the development of computer vision systems that are perfectly independent from the used image source from a software point of view. Furthermore, a fully integrated generic camera model in combination with an easy-to-use calibration application allows metric measurements in 3D with any camera. Thus changing only two lines of code - one for the choice of the camera module and another for the choice of the camera calibration file - is sufficient, in order to run an application with another camera.