Computer Vision Market is large and continues to grow There is no standard API (like OpenGL and DirectX in graphics, or OpenSSLin cryptography), most of CV software is of 3 kinds: –Research code (slow, unstable, independent/incompatible data types
FreeImage supports: >> Loading and saving of as many bitmap types as possible >> Easy access to bitmap components, such as palettes and data bits >> Converting bitmap’s bit depths from one to another >> Accessing pages in a b
