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Computer Vision links mentioned in This Week in Rust materials
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The sources mention several links related to computer vision, graphics, and image processing within the Rust ecosystem. These include libraries, projects, and discussions:

Graphics & Rendering Libraries/Frameworks:

  • Piston: A graphics library. Its image library has been rewritten in pure Rust, and it also features skeletal animation demos and supports "duck typing".
  • glium: A safe wrapper for OpenGL, used in the simple polar dodging game, Rusty_Dodge. Its project updates and a post-mortem have been noted.
  • gfx / gfx-rs / gfx-hal: A crate designed to display content on a screen across various platforms. Updates from its development have been highlighted. It also has a hardware abstraction layer (gfx-hal) and an ecosystem overview.
  • luminance: A type-safe, type-level, and stateless Rust graphics framework.
  • wgpu: A cross-platform graphics and compute library based on WebGPU, with multi-threading capabilities.
  • Speedy2D: A crate offering cross-platform hardware-accelerated drawing of shapes, images, and text with an easy-to-use API.
  • posh: A library for type-safe graphics programming using functional shaders in Rust.
  • kajiya: An experimental real-time global illumination renderer built with Rust and Vulkan.
  • rs-pbrt: A Rust counterpart to the C++ code from the "PBRT" book (3rd edition), focused on physically based rendering.
  • floem: A native Rust UI library featuring fine-grained reactivity.
  • rinf: A library designed to integrate Rust code with Flutter applications.
  • SvgBobRus: A tool to convert ASCII diagram scribbles into SVG format.
  • resvg: An SVG rendering library.
  • oxvg: An SVG optimizer.

Image & Video Processing:

  • color-rs: A library providing types and conversions for various color formats.
  • Barcoders: A barcode encoding library for Rust.
  • Imageproc: An image processing library written in Rust.
  • Oxipng: A lossless PNG compression optimizer written in Rust.
  • imgref: A simple Rust struct facilitating the interchange of pixel buffers with width, height, and stride.
  • viu: A terminal image viewer.
  • Real-time video processing with Rust, FFmpeg and OpenCV: A blog post discussing this specific application.
  • lepton-jpeg-rust: Microsoft's Rust port of Dropbox's space-saving JPEG compressor library.
  • czkawka: A GTK-based duplicate file finder, which can be used for image duplicates.
  • Generative metatag images in Rust: A walkthrough on creating images for metadata.
  • Vimeo introduces support for AV1 using rav1e: A Rust library for video encoding.

Emulators & Game Engines (with visual/graphics components):

  • Ferris Makes Emulators: A video series documenting the development of an N64 emulator in Rust.
  • Amethyst: A data-oriented game engine written in Rust.
  • Anima Engine: A game engine noted for its quirky nature.
  • Pinky: An NES emulator written in Rust.
  • Bevy: A capable yet simple game engine.

Machine Learning (with computer vision applications):

  • Machine learning in Rust: A general discussion on the topic.
  • Deep Learning in Rust: a walk in the park: A blog post about deep learning.
  • Are we learning yet?: A resource cataloging the Rust machine learning ecosystem.
  • TensorFlow Rust: Rust language bindings for TensorFlow, a popular machine learning framework.
  • tract: A neural network inference library written purely in Rust, supporting ONNX, NNEF, and TF formats.
  • autograd: A library for differentiable operations and tensors, useful for machine learning applications.
  • best-of-ml-rust: A ranked list of notable machine learning Rust libraries.
  • Qdrant: A production-ready vector database/similarity search engine written in Rust, which can be applied to computer vision features for similarity search.
  • microflow: A robust and efficient TinyML inference engine for embedded systems, which could be used for on-device computer vision tasks.

Other Visual Tools & Related Discussions:

  • d3cap: A libpcap-based network activity visualizer.
  • RemoteJoy: A program for remotely viewing the screen of a PlayStation Portable.
  • Pathfinder: A fast GPU-based font rasterizer in Rust.
  • Fireplace: A modular Wayland window manager written in Rust.
  • perceptia: A dynamic window manager with Wayland support.
  • Rorschach: A tool to pretty-print binary blobs based on common layout definition, which involves visual representation of data.
  • syntect: A library used for syntax highlighting.
  • Rust GUI Infrastructure: A general discussion on the state of Rust's GUI capabilities.
  • Alacritty: An OpenGL-propelled terminal application known for its speed and appearance.
  • Talks from Rust Computer Vision Meetup 2021-09-29: An explicit mention of a meetup focused on computer vision.
  • Learn how to build OpenGL renderer with Rust: A tutorial on rendering with OpenGL.
  • A guide to Rust graphics libraries as of 2019: A comprehensive resource on graphics libraries.
  • gradient: A command-line tool to extract, display, and manipulate gradients from SVG files.
  • dxf-rs: A library for parsing AutoCAD files.
  • Sniffnet: A cross-platform GUI application for network traffic analysis, providing a visual representation of network activity.
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