[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of PsiVision - Image Auto-Classification

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Tariq Rashid <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: PsiVision -  Image Auto-Classification
System name: psivision
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
The PsiVision project has the following aims:

  * to produce an industrial strength, scalable, modular system for 
    automatic image classification, recognition, retrieval. 
  * to produce a system for quantifying the performance of this and
    other similar systems. 
  * to produce excellent and extensive documentation to promote 
    the use of this project, to maximise its enjoyment, 
    to encourage a greater understanding of this and related 
    disciplines. 
  * to provide a friendly and fun environment for non-experts 
    (like myself) to learn about really cool facets of programming, 
    image understanding, databases, high availability computing, 
    mathematics, neuroscience, data mining, machine learning, 
    consciousness, philosophy, ... ;)

preface:

  * proprietary with similar aims to psivision exist - they are
    large, expensive and mysterious. we want to corrrect that.
  * some free systems exist but are not entirely free - 
    eg academic use only, non-commercial use, etc
  * some libre image processing projects exist - usually in the
    form of libraries - but no complete solutions (eg no scheduling
    of retrieval, no database systems, no integrated UIs). 
  * gnu gift is not entirely _automatic_ (it\'s interactive 
    query by example) and doesn\'t aim to be. psivision will encompass
    all these methods eventually.

Software details:

  * the entire projects architecture will be developed independently
    and evolves with comminity discussion and critical evaluation of
    existing technologies such as IBM\'s CBIR. 
  * the entire project will be developed independently and not rely
    on pre-existing components (eg GNU GIFT relies on viper project)
  * project will consider the use of existing protocols if they are
    totally open and free (possibly MRML as an example - see gnu 
    gift project).
  * code will be written using open and portable languages - 
    it is intended that the psivision backend will be in C.
    the frontend (likely web based as well as cli) is likely to
    be in python. 
  * all code is to be as portable as possible - follow example set by
    OpenBSD\'s isakmpd project - with (eventual) compile targets for
    net/free/open BSD and gnu/linux - sysdeps seperated off. 
    others may port to windows?
  * initial testing and development on both gnu/linux and freebsd.
  * it is difficult to predict what libraries might be required. 
    again, use only free libre code - if functionality is only 
    in a non-free library - we will write our own.
  * likely libraries - graphics format loaders (libpng?), 
    maths libraries (libgsl?), possibly prolog/lisp libraries.
  * algorithms either inspired from public sources or invented.
  * as mentioned above, the documentation will comprehensively
    cover design decisions and their reasoning. that includes
    algorithms, sources and the use of libraries.

It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.


Other Software Required:
difficult to predict - but will be entirely free and open libre libraries and 
dependencies.

non-free functionality will be written from scratch.

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