[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] New OpenCV Bindings

[Ivan Perez]

Noam Lewis?

https://github.com/sinelaw



On 28 September 2013 21:48, Arjun Comar <nrujac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ahh, I misunderstood then. Who is currently maintaining the HOpenCV
> package on Hackage?
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Anthony Cowley <acowley at seas.upenn.edu>wrote:
>
>> To be clear, I am not the maintainer of HOpenCV. I have used a fork of
>> that library for experimenting with OpenCV interfaces over the past few
>> years, and written quite a few kloc using it in several robotics oriented
>> projects with computer vision needs. None of my experiments with HOpenCV
>> are on hackage as they are experiments, but I have helped others get
>> started with them over time.
>>
>> I am totally supportive of Arjun's new efforts: OpenCV has changed a lot,
>> and there is reason to be optimistic that he will be able to provide a much
>> better foundation for Haskell bindings than we have ever had. As the low
>> level bindings come online, we will be able to introduce some of the extra
>> type-driven code paths and static checks that have proven successful in the
>> existing fragmented Haskell-OpenCV ecosystem.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Sep 28, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Arjun Comar <nrujac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been talking to Anthony Cowley who I think is the current maintainer
>> of HOpenCV and Ville Tirronen who has been developing the CV bindings.
>> Basically the consensus is that these raw bindings provide a new base to
>> work from, and it's worthwhile to rethink the API we provide with a fresh
>> start.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Ivan Perez <ivanperezdominguez at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> The people working on HOpenCV are very open to incorporating other's
>>> programmer's patches. Maybe you can incorporate your changes to
>>> cv-combinators? (Project's been halted since 2010, I'm sure they'll be very
>>> happy to see that sb is contributing).
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28 September 2013 19:13, Arjun Comar <nrujac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fair enough, it's been two or three years since I tried to play with
>>>> them. Most of my work is in the raw bindings currently, which provide the
>>>> C++ API in Haskell, so much lower level that cv-combinators. If HOpenCV
>>>> were to incorporate parts of these bindings then cv-combinators would be
>>>> able to benefit from this work. That said, my effort going forward is to
>>>> provide something equivalent to cv-combinators in expressiveness. I'm
>>>> definitely taking inspiration from the library though I'm not basing my
>>>> work on their source code.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Ivan Perez <
>>>> ivanperezdominguez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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