[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] New OpenCV Bindings

[Arjun Comar]

After receiving feedback, I went ahead and split out the raw C wrappers and
Haskell bindings. You can find them at www.github.com/arjuncomar/opencv-raw.
I'll upload it to hackage as opencv-raw once I have uploader privileges.

Regards,
Arjun


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Arjun Comar <nrujac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've been hard at work on a new set of OpenCV bindings that will hopefully
> solve a lot of the shortcomings with previous attempts. An automatic header
> parser has been used to generate a full set of Haskell bindings for the C++
> API, and I'm now working to create a pleasant Haskell API. The plan is to
> expose major functionality through pipes for two reasons: 1) OpenCV is not
> very referentially transparent, and so you're stuck in IO for anything
> non-trivial. Lazy IO is potentially problematic, and so immediate
> incorporation of a proper streaming library is probably best. 2) Computer
> vision algorithms are frequently expressed in terms of pipelines of
> functionality, and a pipes approach can provide a very natural API for
> expressing these algorithms.
>
> At this stage, I could very much use input from anyone who's interested in
> these bindings. I've got the basics of a library forming, but there's a ton
> to do and help in the form of pull requests are very very welcome. I could
> also use feedback on what's been done so far (especially criticisms) as
> well as feature requests.
>
> The current plan is to develop the pipes API for the core functionality.
> The plan is to provide the major functionality from core, highgui, imgproc,
> features2d, contrib, ml, flann, video, and objdetect as quickly as I can
> before trying to cover any of the more specialized parts of the API. The
> functions and types from these modules (baring a few major and important
> exceptions) are automatically translated into C wrappers and raw Haskell
> bindings.
>
> If there's sufficient interest in these raw bindings separately from the
> API I'm developing, I'll release them as a separate package on Hackage. I'm
> calling my project revelation for the moment because I'm bad at naming
> things and it was the best pun I could come up with.
>
> Github: www.github.com/arjuncomar/revelation
>
> Regards,
> Arjun
>
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