OCR Base Engine Part 2- CCD/Blob Libraries Review

Connected Component Detection and Analysis Libraries


As a preliminary step towards building the OCR engine, we will look many libraries that consist of implementation of CCD algorithm.


Fast CCs on Image - http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/connected/

Opencv Based Quasi CCs - http://www.marcad.com/cs584/proj3/default.htm

OpenCV.Net - http://code.google.com/p/opencvdotnet/

Vigra - http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~koethe/vigra/

CCLib - http://mathieu.delalandre.free.fr/projects/CCLib.html

EPIDaure - http://www-sop.inria.fr/epidaure/software/basics/connexe.php

Blob Extraction Library (CC Labeling) - http://opencvlibrary.sourceforge.net/cvBlobsLib

General CC implementations - http://www2.toki.or.id/book/AlgDesignManual/WEBSITE/FILES/DFS_BFS4.HTM

BOOST based CC graph - http://docs.huihoo.com/boost/1-33-1/libs/graph/doc/connected_components.html

QGar CC - http://www.qgar.org/doc/QgarLib/html/group__GRAPHPROC__CC.html

Opencv - http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~laganier/tutorial/opencv+directshow/cvision.htm
http://www.cs.iit.edu/~agam/cs512/lect-notes/opencv-intro/opencv-intro.html
www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~bouakaz/OpenCV-0.9.5/docs/ref/OpenCVRef_ImageProcessing.htm
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/unfolded.htm

Other General Libraries
RestoreInPaint - http://restoreinpaint.sourceforge.net/
GIL (Adobe) - http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/gil/Generic+Image+Library
Many Libraries - http://www.oonumerics.org/oon/