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The CImg Library is an <b>open source C++ toolkit for image processing</b> designed with these properties in mind :

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     CImg defines simple <i>classes</i> and <i>methods</i>
     aimed at manipulating generic images in your own C++ code : Load/save various file formats, access pixel values,
     display, resize/rotate/mirror/filter, draw primitives (text, faces, curves, 3D objects, ...), compute statistics,
     manage user interactions, and so on...
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     Provided image classes can represent datasets up to
     <i>4-dimension wide</i> (from 1D scalar signals to 3D hyperspectral volumes), with template pixel types.
     Image <i>collections</i> and <i>sequences</i> are also supported.
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     CImg is <i>self-contained</i> and thus <i>highly portable</i>. It fully works on
     <i>different operating systems</i> (Unix, Windows, MacOS X, *BSD) with <i>various C++ compilers</i>
     (Visual C++, GNU g++, Intel icc, Borland bcc, ...).
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     CImg is <i>lightweight</i>. It is made of a single header file
     <i><a href="http://cimg.cvs.sourceforge.net/cimg/CImg/CImg.h?view=markup"><b>CImg.h</b></a></i>
     that must be included in your C++ source. It defines only <i>four</i> different classes.
     It can be compiled using a minimal set of standard C++ and system libraries.
     <i>No need for exotic or complex dependencies</i>.
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     Although not required, CImg can use functionalities of external tools/libraries such as
     <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/">ImageMagick</a>,
     <a href="http://www.graphicsmagick.org/">GraphicsMagick</a>,
     <a href="http://xmedcon.sourceforge.net/">XMedCon</a>,
     <a href="http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/">FFMPEG</a>,
     <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html">libpng</a>,
     <a href="http://www.ijg.org/">libjpeg</a>,
     <a href="http://www.libtiff.org/">libtiff</a>,
     <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/">Magick++</a>,
     <a href="http://www.netlib.org/lapack/">Lapack</a>,
     <a href="http://libboard.sourceforge.net/">Board</a>
     or
     <a href="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW3</a>.
     Moreover, a simple <i>plug-in</i> mechanism allows any user to directly enhance the library
     capabilities according to his needs.
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      CImg is a <i>free, open-source library</i> distributed under the
      <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.txt"><i>CeCILL-C</i></a> (close to the GNU LGPL)
      or
      <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt"><i>CeCILL</i></a> (compatible with the GNU GPL)
      licenses</i></a>. It can be used in commercial applications.
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<blockquote>
<b>CImg</b> stands for <b><i>"Cool Image"</i></b> : It is <b>easy to use</b> and <b>efficient</b>.
It's a very pleasant toolbox to code image processing stuffs in C++, and potentially covers a wide range of image processing applications.
In the distributed package, a <a href="screenshots.shtml">lot of examples</a> are provided to help the developper in its first steps.<br/>
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<br/><img src="img/item_authors.jpg" alt="Authors">
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<a href="http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/">David Tschumperl&eacute;</a> (project leader), with the help of
various contributors :
<i>
  Haz-Edine Assemlal,
  Vincent Barra,
  Romain Blei,
  Yohan Bentolila,
  Jerome Boulanger,
  Frederic Devernay,
  Fran&ccedil;ois-Xavier Dup&eacute;,
  Eric Fausett,
  Jean-Marie Favreau,
  Sebastien Fourey,
  Alexandre Fournier,
  Vincent Garcia,
  Jinwei Gu,
  Jean-Daniel Guyot,
  Matt Hanson,
  Sebastien Hanel,
  Christoph Hormann,
  Werner Jainek,
  Daniel Kondermann,
  Pierre Kornprobst,
  Orges Leka,
  Francois Lauze,
  Xie Long,
  Thomas Martin,
  Cesar Martinez,
  Jean Martinot,
  Nikita Melnichenko,
  Baptiste Mougel,
  Renaud Peteri,
  Martin Petricek,
  Paolo Prete,
  Adrien Reboisson,
  Klaus Schneider,
  Konstantin Spirin,
  Rainer Steffens,
  David G. Starkweather,
  Grzegorz Szwoch,
  Thierry Thomas,
  Yu-En-Yun,
  Vo Duc Khanh,
  Phillip Wood,
  Bug Zhao,
  Haibo Zheng.
 </i>
</blockquote>

<br/><img src="img/item_licenses.jpg" alt="Licenses">
<blockquote>
   The CImg Library is an open-source product distributed under <b>two distinct licenses</b> :
   the library core itself is dual-licensed and
   can be governed either by the
   <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.txt"><b>CeCILL-C</b> License</a> (LGPL-like),
   or the
   <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt"><b>CeCILL</b> License</a> (GPL-compatible).
   Most of the other package files are distributed under the
   <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt"><b>CeCILL</b> License</a>.
   Both are <b>open source licenses</b>, the CeCILL-C being less restrictive than the CeCILL one.
   The CImg Library source code has been registered to the <a href="http://app.legalis.net/paris/">APP</a>
   (French Agency for the Protection of Programs) by the <a href="http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html">INRIA</a>,
   under registration number <i>IDDN.FR.001.040004.000.S.P.2004.000.21000.</i>
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<br/><img src="img/item_learnmore.jpg" alt="Learn More">
<ul>
  <li>The <a href="screenshots.shtml">Screenshots</a> section illustrates some of the different source code examples provided in
      the CImg package.</li>
  <li>The <a href="reference/group__cimg__tutorial.html">Tutorial</a> section shows the basic use of CImg classes
      and functions with a small first code.</li>
  <li>You can look at the quite complete <a href="CImg_slides.pdf">CImg Library presentation slides</a> (.pdf format) which gives
      more insights on the different library concepts.</li>
  <li>Online web statistics on the CImg website activity are available
      <a href="http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=895001&guest=1">here</a> and
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=96492&ugn=cimg">here</a>.</li>
</ul>

<br/><img src="img/item_quickhistory.jpg" alt="Quick History">
<blockquote>
   The development of the CImg Library began at the end of 1999, when I started my PhD thesis
   in the <a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/odyssee"><img border="0" height="16" alt="" src="img/logoODYSSEE.jpg"></img> Lab</a>
   at the <a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/"><img border="0" height="16" alt="" src="img/logoINRIA.gif"></img> Sophia Antipolis</a>.
   It was designed to help me and my colleagues developing various image processing algorithms,
   for datasets as simple as 2D scalar images, or as complex as 3D volumes of diffusion tensors. I also used it for
   courses on image processing I teached at the university. That's why the CImg library
   has been always intended to be <i>compact</i>, <i>easy to use</i>, <i>multi-platform</i> and <i>generic</i>.
   It provides a lot of basic functions that one would like to see in an image
   processing framework for C++ programming.
   I am now a permanent researcher of the  <a href="http://www.cnrs.fr"><img border="0" alt="" height="32" src="img/logoCNRS.gif"></img>
   institution</a>,
   working in the <a href="http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/EquipeImage"><img border="0" alt="" height="32" src="img/logoIMAGE.gif"></img>
    group</a> at the <a href="http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr"><img border="0" alt="" height="32" src="img/logoGREYC.gif"></img>
    GREYC lab</a> in Caen/France.
    I am still using, maintaining and updating the CImg Library, and will probably do it for the next couple of years.
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<br/><img src="img/item_howtohelp.jpg" alt="How to Help ?">
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   The CImg Library is an open source C++ library which is mainly developped during
   free time. If you enjoy using CImg, you may contribute to the project
   in different ways. This will motivate me to continue the work.
   <ul>
   <li>You can help CImg to be more widely known, by displaying a
   <a href="CImg_flyer.pdf">CImg Flyer</a> at work, in your lab or school
   (available in <a href="CImg_flyer.pdf">.PDF</a> or <a href="img/CImg_flyer.jpg">.JPEG</a> formats).
   <li>You can report bugs, propose patches or new functionalities, using the CImg
   <a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=96492">forums</a> or
   <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=96492">trackers</a>.</li>
   <li>You can write
   <a href="reference/group__cimg__tutorial.html">tutorials</a>
    or parts of the <a href="reference/index.html">documentation</a>.</li>
   <li>If you just want to say you've been happy with the library, you can send me a postcard from your place, to the following address : <br/>
   <i>David Tschumperl&eacute;, GREYC (UMR CNRS 6072), Equipe IMAGE, 6 Bd du Mar&eacute;chal Juin, 14050 Caen Cedex, FRANCE.</i><br/><br/>
   10 postcards received yet (I still have empty space on my wall ! :) ), from :<br/><br/>
   <ul>
   <li><a href="img/postcard1.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','420','320','yes');return false;">
   Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard2.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','420','320','yes');return false;">
   Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard3.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','420','320','yes');return false;">
   Waikiki's only true resort, Honolulu/Hawaii.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard4.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','420','320','yes');return false;">
   Royal Pavilion, Brighton/UK.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard5.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','320','420','yes');return false;">
   Cambridge, UK.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard6.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','420','320','yes');return false;">
   National Tai-Chung Institute of Technology, Taiwan.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard7.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','420','320','yes');return false;">
   Fuzzy Logic Laboratorium Linz-Hagenberg, Linz, Austria.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard8.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','500','450','yes');return false;">
   Corte/Corsica.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard9.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','400','600','yes');return false;">
   Microsoft Research, Beijing/China.</a></li>
   <li><a href="img/postcard10.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','700','500','yes');return false;">
   Palermo/Italia.</a></li>
   </ul><br/>
   <li>If you are rich, you can also <a href="http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=96492">
   <img src="img/project-support.jpg" alt=""></img></a></li>
   </ul>
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<br/><img src="img/item_copyrights.jpg" alt="Copyrights">
<blockquote>
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      Copyrights (C) From october 2004, David Tschumperl� - GREYC UMR CNRS 6072, Image group.<br/>
      Copyrights (C) January->September 2004, David Tschumperl�.<br/>
      Copyrights (C) 2000->2003, David Tschumperl� - INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. Odyss�e group.<br/>
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