Gandalf is a computer vision and numerical algorithm library, written in C,
which allows you to develop new applications that will be portable and run
FAST. Dynamically reconfigurable vector, matrix and image structures allow
efficient use of memory.
Gandalf has been used to develop the "mokey" motion editing software
by Imagineer Systems Ltd,
released at IBC'2001 in Amsterdam. Mokey performs automatic inpainting of
moving objects over an image sequence, and can also be used to compute
an accurate alpha matte or outline of an object.
For more details of mokey click on the mokey logo:
Gandalf is free for use for both research and commercial purpises under the
LGPL (Lesser Gnu Public License). Gandalf been used on commercial
development contracts in the areas of
- Counterfeit detection
- Camera motion control
Gandalf currently contains four packages:
- Common
package of simple structures
and routines used by the other packages, such as memory
allocation, linked lists and error handling;
- Linear algebra
package with a large number of
routines for matrix and vector manipulations;
- Image
package defining a general purpose image
structure and low-level image manipulation routines;
- Vision
package containing a number of standard image
processing, computer vision and geometrical routines.
The major design features of Gandalf are
- Efficient use of memory through dynamically reconfigurable structures;
- Emphasis on support of numerical algorithms, especially optimisation;
- A very flexible and efficient internal image representation,
- A comprehensive set of matrix/vector operations, incorporating implicit
matrix transpose & inverse, and in-place computation where appropriate;
- Thread-safe.
- Exploitation of the computational and compilation speed
advantages of C over C++ in reducing the number of layers of
abstraction over the raw data, an approach we believe is
appropriate for simple objects such as matrices, vectors and
images.
The documentation for Gandalf comes in two parts. There is a LaTex tutorial
with examples available in HTML
(via Latex2html) or as a
PDF file.
Reference documentation for Gandalf has also been generated using
Doxygen, and is
available here.
There is a Gandalf FAQ.
Download the Gandalf source distribution from the SourceForge project page for Gandalf.
Contributions to Gandalf are welcomed. You can also become a Gandalf developer.
However please conform to the Gandalf coding conventions.