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- Conclusions
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- :depth: 2
- The Generic Image Library is designed with the following five goals in mind:
- Generality
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- Abstracts image representations from algorithms on images.
- It allows for writing code once and have it work for any image type.
- Performance
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- Speed has been instrumental to the design of the library.
- The generic algorithms provided in the library are in many cases comparable
- in speed to hand-coding the algorithm for a specific image type.
- Flexibility
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- Compile-type parameter resolution results in faster code, but severely limits
- code flexibility. The library allows for any image parameter to be specified
- at run time, at a minor performance cost.
- Extensibility
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- Virtually every construct in GIL can be extended - new channel types,
- color spaces, layouts, iterators, locators, image views and images
- can be provided by modeling the corresponding GIL concepts.
- Compatibility
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- The library is designed as an STL complement.
- Generic STL algorithms can be used for pixel manipulation, and they are
- specifically targeted for optimization. The library works with existing
- raw pixel data from another image library.
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