The VW is a general purpose image processing and computer vision library developed by the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) Area in the Intelligent Systems Division at the NASA Ames Research Center. VW has been publically released under the terms of the NASA Open Source Software Agreement. They are working to establish out a process through which outside parties can actively participate as developers on this project.

The VW was implemented in the C++ programming language and makes extensive use of C++ templates and generative programming techniques for conciseness of expression, efficiency of operation, and generalization of implementation.

While substantial functionality is implemented in the VW, the goal of the library is not to provide advanced cutting-edge image processing or computer vision capabilities. Rather, the intent is to provide a solid efficient foundation implementing well known techniques and a common framework for doing advanced research and development in collaboration with others.

The intended audience for the VW includes computer vision and robotics researchers and developers, as well as those who simply want to transform or enhance images. At this point in time, the VW may not be suitable for those who have little experience or familiarity with C++.

The Vision Workbench resulted from a collaboration between IRG and the Adaptive Control and Evolvable Systems (ACES) group to more effectively leverage technical expertise embodied in disparate ASR image processing and computer vision code bases by developing a framework implementing common functionality and providing a common infrastructure for collaboration and reuse of code.

To learn more, visit: http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/projects/visionworkbench/

To contribute code as a developer, email: vision-workbench-owner@lists.nasa.gov

To stay up-to-date on this project, subscribe to the Vision Workbench user mailing list by sending an empty email message with the subject ’subscribe’ (without the quotes)

Project owners + coordinators:
Matt Hancher
Michael Broxton