STAIR Vision Library

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STAIR Vision Library

The STAIR Vision Library (SVL) (codenamed lasik) contains computer vision research code initially developed to support the STanford AI Robot project. It has since been expanded to provide a range of software infrastructure for computer vision, machine learning, and probabilistic graphical models. The code is maintained by me (Stephen Gould) and a small group of core developers. It was developed as part of my PhD studies under the guidance of Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng. A number of contributions to the code have also been made by colleagues and students working on various research projects. The library builds on top of the OpenCV computer vision library and the Eigen matrix library. For XML parsing we use Frank Vanden Berghen's xmlParser library. Some GPU-accelerated functionality is also provided (via Nvidia's Cuda libraries). GUI applications use wxWidgets. The STAIR Vision Library is designed primarily for academic research (although no restriction is made on commercial use). The research nature of the library is reflected in the project structure, making it easy for multiple student groups to develop code and run experiments. We support both Windows and Linux platforms. Please report any bugs (but check the list of known bugs first).

If you use the STAIR Vision Library in your scientific work, you should cite:


The STAIR Vision Library is hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/stairvision/. You can subscribe to the (low-bandwidth) announcements mailing list by sending an email to <stairvision-announce-join@lists.sourceforge.net>.

Note: The development branch (and versions 2.5 onwards) of the STAIR Vision Library needs to link against OpenCV 2.1. Previous versions of The STAIR Vision Library were tested on OpenCV 1.0 and may exhibit strange behavior when linked against OpenCV 2.1.

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Stable (version 2.4, 22-May-10)
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The STAIR Vision Library (SVL) is distributed under the BSD license. This means that it is free for both academic and commercial use. Note however that some third party components in the library require that you reference certain works in scientific publications (see acknowledgments for details).

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