[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] New OpenCV Bindings

Ivan Perez ivanperezdominguez at gmail.com
Sat Sep 28 18:51:02 CEST 2013


I think they do work. cv-combinators depends on HOpenCV, which depends on
OpenCV 2.0.



On 28 September 2013 16:03, Arjun Comar <nrujac at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, these are unrelated. Cv-combinators hasn't really worked since OpenCV
> 2.0 waa released I believe.
>  On Sep 28, 2013 8:54 AM, "Ivan Perez" <ivanperezdominguez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Cool. Thanks a lot for uploading this.
>>
>> I have a question (and I confess that I haven't checked the link). How is
>> this related to or overlaps with cv-combinators?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ivan
>>
>>
>> On 28 September 2013 06:18, Arjun Comar <nrujac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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