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Anyone know how this compares to ITK? Or why NASA didn't use or customize ITK?
by signal12 16y ago
Anyone know how this compares to ITK? Or why NASA didn't use or customize ITK?
- rflrob 16y agoI would guess it's a combination of Not Invented Here syndrome and different problem spaces. Despite the fact that ITK seems to focus on very small things, while NASA tends to focus on the quite large, I've found that image processing, by and large, is image processing, so I'd think the former is probably more important.
- ylem 16y agoOr OpenCV for that matter?
- ylem 16y agoITK is developed by Kitware--are they a US company? Are either ITK or VTK open source? I have seen NASA devote resources to open source projects like matplotlib (an excellent python plotting package)
- kakali 16y agoHonestly I don't know enough about ITK to compare it to VW. VW's original developers just wanted to make a cool way of doing lazy image evaluation. This is its primary difference compared to OpenCV. VW leverages that ability to handle really large images (1+ GB) and to do multithreaded rasterization. Saying VW was created because of "Not Invented Here" is a little harsh. It is mostly just a fun exercise of CRTP that grew into a supporting library. Is this the best library for you? That depends. In my opinion, VW's strength at the moment is cartographic applications.