An Overview of Watershed Algorithm Implementations in Open Source Libraries

An Evaluation of Open Source SURF Implementations

SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) is a detector and descriptor of local scaleand rotation-invariant image features. By using integral images for image convolutions it is faster to compute than other state-of-the-art algorithms, yet produces comparable or even better results by means of repeatability, distinctiveness and robustness. A library implementing SURF is provided by the authors. However...

Open Source Software Development: An Overview

P roprietary software vendors operate on a closed-source model: They develop their own software and release that software to the public with the intention of gaining market penetration and earning a profit. The open source movement, while still profitable in many ways to profit-oriented companies, relies on a different set of practices. In the open source movement, everyone capable of writing c...

What Makes Computational Open Source Software Libraries Successful? What Makes Computational Open Source Software Libraries Successful?

Software is the backbone of scientific computing. Yet, while we regularly publish detailed accounts about the results of scientific software, and while there is a general sense of which numerical methods work well, our community is largely unaware of best practices in writing the large-scale, open source scientific software upon which our discipline rests. This is particularly apparent in the c...

Open source, open minds?: An investigation into attitudes towards open source library management systems in UK higher education libraries

Digital Libraries: An Overview

Candy Schwartz is Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5898 ,[email protected].. I t is an understatement to say that the phrase “digital library” (DL) means different things to different people. As part of a class project, students in a digital library course recently found 64 different formal...