Products

SimpleCV

Machine Vision has never been easier

SimpleCV is a Python interface to several powerful open source computer vision libraries, in a single convenient package. With it, your software can have access to high level algorithms in feature detection, filtering, and pattern recognition without wrangling with separate libraries. Manage and process data from USB Webcams, Firewire cameras, or even your Kinect. Forget about bit depths, file formats, color formats, buffer management, eigenvalues, and matrix vs bitmap storage. We love clean, readable computer vision code and hope you'll love how easy SimpleCV is to work with.

  • Clean and usable wrapper for OpenCV, Freenect, PIL, Numpy & Scipy, ZXing, and libSDL
  • Feature detection and discrimination of Corners, Edges, Blobs, Barcodes
  • Filter and sort features by location, color, quality, and size
  • Integrated iPython interactive shell makes experimenting easy

http://www.simplecv.org

ServoHubcoming soon

Find and Share Innovations


The ServoHub community is a social showcase for innovations in Machine Vision, Robotics, Sensors, and Control Systems. Whether you are a professional, researcher, or hobbyist, you can find what's going on or promote you own projects. ServoHub is a collaborative effort to gather the scattered efforts of the many ways computing has touched the physical world, make a coherent database of what's been achieved, and dream about what is possible.

  • View profiles of innovators and their projects
  • Browse and Search projects by keyword
  • Interact with a community building the future

Seer

Free and Open Source Inspection Software


Seer turns any PC with a camera into a Network Managed Machine Vision appliance. This web-based inspection software makes it easy to build tests, set triggers, and communicate with your existing systems. Add SeerService, and you can securely manage your cameras over the internet, backup and restore test systems, and keep revision control for any changes made. Seer lets you focus on keeping uptime, and not on managing your camera systems.

  • Easy Feature, Blob, Barcode, and Edge detection and calibrated measurement
  • Communicate with HTTP, Modbus and OPC protocols
  • Web-based controls make remote management
  • Cloud-based state control and backups
  • Industry standard security controls with firewalls, SSL and SSH
  • Fully Open Source, Extendable, and Customizable

About Us

Nathan Oostendorp

President


Nathan Oostendorp is an Open Source Entrepreneur, co-founder of Slashdot.org, and worked 9 years as architect and director of SourceForge.net. He has developed multiple successful online communities, including Everything2.com and PerlMonks.org. His areas of expertise include Software Architecture, Information Economics, Incentive design, and large-scale information system operation. He holds an MS in Information Science from the University of Michigan and a BS in Computer Science from Hope College.

Anthony Oliver

CTO


Anthony Oliver is an open source advocate and vision system aficionado. He has given numerous talks and presentations on the use of open source software in manufacturing, including a the 2010 Quality Conference and Ignite Automotive. He has worked in manufacturing machine vision for over 5 years as well as areas such as robotics and web development. He has been involved with technical and open source communities his entire professional career, including being an officer of A2Geeks and a Google Summer of Code awardee for the Drupal content management system. He holds a BS in Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University.

Katherine A. Scott

Director of Research & Development


Katherine Scott has over ten years experience working as a research engineer for a number of Military research projects covering the domains of computer vision, robotics, augmented reality, and simulation. She holds Bachelor of Science and Engineering degrees in both Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ms Scott is currently a graduate student studying computer science with a concentration of computer vision and graphics at Columbia University in the city of New York.