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Comparing IM with Other Imaging Toolkits

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Still today there is a need for something easier to code and understand in + Imaging. The available free libraries are sometimes close, sometimes very far + from “easier”. IM is an unexplored solution and proposed as a simple and clean + one. It is another Imaging tool with a different approach to the many + possibilities in the area. Its organization was designed so it can be used for + teaching Imaging concepts. We invite you to try it.

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First we list some libraries mainly target for storage, then some + scientific libraries, and then a small comparsion of IM and those libraries.

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Here are some free storage libraries:

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Imlib2

+ +

Last Update 2003-09 / Version 1.1.0
+ + http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html
+ Language C
+ Documentation is terrible. Depends on the X-Windows System libraries.
+ It is designed for display/rendering performance.

+ +

Corona

+ +

Last Update 2003-09 / Version 1.0.2
+ + http://corona.sourceforge.net/
+ Language C++
+ Very simple library. Only a few formats. Only bitmap images, no video.
+ 

+ +

PaintLib

+ +

Last Update 2004-04 / Version 2.61
+ + http://www.paintlib.de/paintlib/
+ Language C++
+ A very simple library.
+ Has an interesting ActiveX component. Only bitmap images, no video.

+ +

NetPBM

+ +

Last Update 2004-07 / Version 10.23
+ + http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
+ Language C
+ A traditional library that starts at the Pbmplus package more than 10 years + ago.
+ Very stable, it has support for the PNM format family and many processing + operations.
+  Only bitmap images, no video.

+ +

DevIL ***

+ +

Last Update 2004-06 / Version 1.6.7
+ + http://openil.sourceforge.net/
+ Language C (Has also a C++ Wrapper)
+ Called initially OpenIL. Supports many formats and have a very interesting + API, that works very similar the OpenGL API (that's why the original name). + Also supports the display in several graphics systems. Has several data + types as OpenGL has.

+ +

FreeImage ***

+ +

Last Update 2004-07 / Version 3.4.0
+ + http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/
+ Language C (Has also a C++ Wrapper)
+ Supports many formats. Many data types, but only RGB and subclasses (gray, + map, etc).
+ Very well written, stable and simple to use.

+ +

ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick ***

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Last Update 2004-07 / Version 6.0.3 || Last Update 2004-04 / Version + 1.0.6
+ + http://www.imagemagick.org/ || + + http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
+ Language C (Has also a C++ Wrapper)
+ The two libraries are listed together because GraphicsMagick is totally and + explicitly based on ImageMagick version 5.5.2.
+ They have very similar or identical APIs but the development process is + completely different. GraphicsMagick propose a more organized development + process (a more precise comparison requires detailed knowledge about the two + libraries).
+ These are very complete libraries. They support lots of file formats, + several color spaces, but use only the byte data type.
+ They use a big image structure with everything inside. Image creation may + involve about 40 parameters.

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And here are some free scientific libraries:

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TINA

+ +

Last Update 2002-03 / Version 4.0.2
+ http://www.niac.man.ac.uk/Tina +
+ Language C
+ Very UNIX oriented. Lots of functions for Computer Vision. Developed by a + researcher of the University of Manchester.

+ +

XITE

+ +

Last Update 2002-09 / Version 3.44
+ + http://www.ifi.uio.no/forskning/grupper/dsb/Software/Xite/
+ Language C
+ Very UNIX oriented, but compiles fine in Windows. Several separated command + line routines, it is a package not a library. But inspired several aspects + of the IM library. Seems to be not updated anymore. Developed by a + researcher of the University of Oslo.

+ +

VIGRA

+ +

Last Update 2004-09 / Version 1.3.0
+ + http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~koethe/vigra/ 
+ Language C++
+ STL based. Many operators. Developed by a researcher of the University of + Hamburg.

+ +

Wild Magic

+ +

Last Update 2004-09 / Version 2.4
+ http://www.magic-software.com/ +
+ Language C++
+ Game development oriented, very rich in mathematics. Developed by Magic + Software, Inc.

+ +

VIPS

+ +

Last Update 2004-09 / Version 7.10.2
+ http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
+ Language C/C++
+ Support for very large images. Powerful macro laguage. Good implementation. + Many functions. Developed by researchers at the University of Southampton + and The National Gallery in the UK.

+ +

MegaWave2

+ +

Last Update 2004-06 / Version 2.3
+ + http://www.cmla.ens-cachan.fr/Cmla/Megawave/
+ Language C
+ Very UNIX oriented. Good implementation. Many functions. C preprocessor. + Developed by French researchers at l'École Normale Supérieure de Cachan.

+ +

JAI

+ +

Last Update 2003-07 / Version 1.1.2
+ + http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/index.jsp
+ Language Java
+ It is becoming more and more popular. Java is slow than C/C++ but the + performance of the image processing operations is very acceptable. Also it + has several C optimized functions. Developed by the Sun Corporation.

+ +

OpenCV ***

+ +

Last Update 2004-08 / Version 4.0
+ + http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/
+ Language C/C++
+ Only a few formats but lots of image processing operations. One of the most + interesting libraries available. It is more than an Imaging library, it is + designed for Computer Vision. Developed by Intel Russian researchers.

+ +

VTK ***

+ +

Last Update 2004-03 / Version 4.2
+ http://www.vtk.org/
+ Language C++
+ Another very important library. Very huge. Much more than Imaging, includes + also 3D Computer Graphics and Visualization. Has a book about the library. + Developed by Kitware Inc.

+ +
+

IM

+ +

Last Update 2004-08 / Version 3.0.2
+ http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/im
+ Language C/C++
+ Support for several data types, i.e. scientific images and different + color spaces. Support for input and output of image sequences. Support for + generic image attributes (metadata), which includes several standard TIFF + tags, GeoTIFF tags and Exif tags. Image storage and capture data can be + accessed using an image structure or with raw data. Internal implementation + in C++ but with a simple C API. Code is portable for Windows and UNIX. Many + image processing operations.

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Comparsion

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The idea behind IM was to create a toolkit that was not so complex as + OpenCV, neither so big as VTK, but that can be used as a solid base to the + development of thesis and dissertations, as for commercial applications.

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As the academic environment is very heterogeneous the IM project choose + some directives:

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Considering these directives there are only a few similar toolkits. Making + some exceptions the following should be mentioned:

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Today OpenCV and VTK are the most professional and complete choices of free + libraries that are similar to IM. But they are more complicated than IM. For + instance VTK it is very large, it has about 700 C++ classes.

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Although OpenCV has many resources, its code is very hard to reuse. The + simplicity of the IM code, mainly the image processing routines, make it a + good reference to be reused by other applications extracting only the code + needed with little changes. And can be used as an complement to learn image + processing algorithms and techniques.

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This page was last updated in Sep 2004.

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