Boost Generic Image Library

The Generic Image Library (GIL) is a C++11 library that abstracts image representations from algorithms and allows writing code that can work on a variety of images with performance similar to hand-writing for a specific image type.

Quickstart

• Installation
• Tutorial: Video Lecture
• Tutorial: Histogram
• Tutorial: Image Gradient
• Naming Conventions

Core Library Documentation

• Design Guide

  • Basics
  • Concepts
  • Point
  • Channel
  • Color Space and Layout
  • Color Base
  • Pixel
  • Pixel Iterator
  • Pixel Locator
  • Image View
  • Image
  • Dynamic images and image views
  • Metafunctions
  • Examples
  • Technicalities
  • Extending
  • Conclusions

• Image Processing

  • Overview
  • Basics
  • Affine region detectors

• API Reference

Extensions Documentation

• IO extensions

  • Overview
  • Supported Platforms
  • Tutorial
  • Using IO
  • Running gil::io tests

• ToolBox extension

  • Overview
  • Folder Structure
  • Acknowledgements
  • Reference

• Numeric extension

  • Overview

Examples

• x_gradient.cpp: Writing an algorithm that operates on generic images
• dynamic_image.cpp: Using images whose properties (color space, channel type) are specified at run time
• histogram.cpp: Creating a histogram
• interleaved_ptr.cpp, interleaved_ptr.hpp, interleaved_ref.hpp: Creating your own pixel reference and pixel iterator
• mandelbrot.cpp: Creating a synthetic image defined by a function
• packed_pixel.cpp: Defining bitmasks and images whose channels or pixels are not byte-aligned
• resize.cpp: Rescaling an image using bilinear sampling (requires the optional Numeric extension)
• affine.cpp: Applying an affine transformation to an image (requires the optional Numeric extension)
• convolution.cpp: Blurring images (requires the optional Numeric extension)