Image processing

IPX is nice image proxy. scikit-image & sharp are nice libs for image processing.

Links

• Bild - Collection of parallel image processing algorithms in pure Go.
• Crunch - Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization.
• Tiler - Tool to create an image using all kinds of other smaller images (tiles).
• Fiji - Image processing package — a "batteries-included" distribution of ImageJ, bundling many plugins which facilitate scientific image analysis.
• Create Social Images (Code)
• libvips - Fast image processing library with low memory needs. (Web)
• wasm-vips - libvips compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten.
• sharp - High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.
• Oxipng - Multithreaded lossless PNG compression optimizer. It can be used via a command-line interface or as a library in other Rust programs.
• Glitch This - Glitchify static images to glitched images and GIFs.
• Obscure features of JPEG (2011)
• stegify - Go tool for LSB steganography, capable of hiding any file within an image.
• waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art.
• Lossless Image Compression through Super-Resolution (HN)
• Zpng - Better lossless compression than PNG with a simpler algorithm.
• butteraugli - Estimates the psychovisual difference between two images.
• PIK - New lossy/lossless image format for photos and the internet.
• imgmaker - Create high-quality images programmatically with easily-hackable templates.
• Halide - Language for fast, portable data-parallel computation. (Web)
• video-loops - Automatic looping of image sequence using optical flow.
• imaginary - Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-first HTTP microservice for high-level image processing.
• Image Segmentation: tips and tricks from 39 Kaggle competitions (2020) (Reddit)
• Instagram 3D Photo - Chrome extension that adds a 3d photo effect to Instagram pages.
• Segmentation Models - Segmentation models with pretrained backbones. Keras and TensorFlow Keras.
• Seam-aware Decimater - Mesh simplification with UV's boundary preserved.
• dechroma (2020)
• skopeo - Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content.
• BlurHash - Compact representation of a placeholder for an image. (Code)
• imgproxy - Fast and secure on-the-fly image processing. ([Code])
• GPR (General Purpose Raw image format) - 12-bit raw image coding format that is based on Adobe DNG standard.
• photon - Rust/WebAssembly image processing library.
• imageproc - Image processing operations as rust library.
• Thumbor - Open-source smart on-demand image cropping, resizing and filters. (Minimal Compact thumbor)
• ImageMagick - Convert, Edit, or Compose Bitmap Images. (WASM implementation) (Deno port) (Code) (HN)
• Leptonica - Open source library containing software that is broadly useful for image processing and image analysis applications. (Web)
• libspng - C library for reading and writing Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format files with a focus on security and ease of use. (spng-rs)
• Visualizing and Understanding JPEG Format (HN)
• jpeg2png - Silky smooth JPEG decoding - no more artifacts. (Lobsters)
• VICAR - Multi-dimensional image processing software. (HN)
• Parallel Seam Carving (2020) (HN)
• Image Resizing by Seam Carving (2017)
• AVIF has landed (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
• imgix - Image processing and optimization API - Image CDN.
• cavif - AVIF image creator in pure Rust.
• A Tour of the Tiny and Obfuscated Image Decoder (2020) (HN)
• imSearch - Generic framework to build your own reverse image search engine.
• image-stego - Novel approach to image manipulation detection.
• Lycon - Minimal and fast image library for Python and C++.
• Optimizt - CLI tool that helps you prepare images during frontend development.
• napari - Multi-dimensional image viewer for python. (Docs)
• NeuralHash - Adversarial Steganographic Method For Robust, Imperceptible Watermarking.
• gif-h - C++ one-header library for the creation of animated GIFs from image data.
• Image Processing Techniques That You Can Use in Machine Learning Projects (2020)
• image-server - Simple http server that accepts an image, converts it to a different format, resizes/compresses it and sends it back.
• smartcrop - Finds good image crops for arbitrary crop sizes.
• Programmable In-Memory Image Processing Accelerator Using Near-Bank Architecture (2020) (HN)
• High throughput JPEG decoder in Verilog for FPGA
• Dezoomify - Extracts full high-resolution images from online zoomable image interfaces. (Code)
• dezoomify-rs - Tiled image downloader.
• libwebp (WebP codec) - Library to encode and decode images in WebP format.
• WebM - High-quality, open video format for the web that's freely available to everyone. (GitHub)
• Odiff - Fastest in the world pixel-by-pixel image difference tool.
• Image Processing in Python: Algorithms, Tools, and Methods You Should Know (2020)
• Image Super-Resolution - Upscale and improve the quality of low resolution images.
• Primitive Pictures - Reproducing images with geometric primitives. (Primitive for macOS)
• picfit - Reusable Go server to manipulate images (resize, thumbnail, etc.).
• dify - Pixel-by-pixel image diffs tool.
• imagemin - Minify images seamlessly.
• imgdiff - Faster than the fastest in the world pixel-by-pixel image difference tool. (HN)
• Triangler - Images to Low-Poly art using Python and Delaunay triangulation.
• Geometrize - Transform images into geometric primitives. (Code)
• A perceptual color space for image processing (2020)
• Critique of Oklab (new perceptual color space) (2021)
• fSpy - Cross platform app for quick and easy still image camera matching. (Code)
• Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (2021) (HN)
• Jimp - JavaScript Image Manipulation Program.
• Resemble.js - Analyze and compare images with JavaScript and HTML5.
• Image Analyze Workers - Zoo of image processing Web Workers for JavaScript or TypeScript.
• ImagePy - Open source image processing framework written in Python.
• Creating image reveal videos with ffmpeg and primitive (2021)
• Upscaler - Increase image resolution up to 4x using JavaScript and Tensorflow.js (Code)
• RemoveBackground.app - Remove the background from your images using ML. (HN)
• z.lib - Scaling, colorspace conversion, and dithering library.
• pierogis - Framework for image processing.
• Fractal Image Compression (2018)
• The Magic Kernel Sharp – image resizing algorithm
• Sparkles - Easily extract metadata and a blurhash from images.
• ‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos (HN)
• diffimg - Differentiate images in python - get a ratio or percentage difference, and generate a diff image.
• Dither Me This - Image Dithering Tool.
• Fast, Safe PNG Decoder (2021) (HN)
• Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript (2021) (HN)
• Cloudflare Images (HN) (Available to Everyone)
• Cryptomatte - Creates ID mattes automatically with support for motion blur, transparency, and depth of field.
• Using Rust and WebAssembly to Process Pixels from a Video Feed (2020) (Code)
• dask-image - Distributed image processing.
• A broader picture: A guide on imgproxy for businesses (2021)
• Lust - Fast, auto-optimizing image server designed for high throughput and caching.
• cutout.pro - Image Cutout and Background Removal.
• MozJPEG - Improved JPEG encoder.
• lilliput - Resize images and animated GIFs in Go.
• Command Line HDR Image Processing (2021)
• Image unshredding using a TSP solver (HN)
• How to identify blurry images (2020)
• Removal.ai - Remove Image Background.
• Albumentations - Fast image augmentation library and an easy-to-use wrapper around other libraries.
• PIX - Image processing library in JAX, for JAX.
• Blur Quick - Tool to blur images quickly.
• SimpleITK - Image analysis toolkit with a large number of components supporting general filtering operations, image segmentation and registration. (Web)
• Pixel Sorting - Introducing order in a disordered way can make for some great glitch art.
• Pixel sorting images in python
• ꟻLIP: A Tool for Visualizing and Communicating Errors in Rendered Images
• The past, present and future of image formats (HN)
• Real-ESRGAN - Practical Algorithms for General Image Restoration.
• Rembg - Tool to remove images background.
• IPX - High performance, secure and easy to use image proxy based on sharp and libvips.
• ImageScript - Zero-dependency JavaScript image manipulation.
• How to use a serverless function as image/caching proxy (2021)
• Microlink Cards - Easiest way to create and share dynamic images at scale. (Code)
• Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images (2020) (Lobsters)
• BackgroundRemover.app - Command line tool to remove background from video and image. (Code)
• Using Modern Image Formats: AVIF And WebP (2021)
• didder - Extensive, fast, and accurate command-line image dithering tool.
• GL Transitions - Powerful and easy to learn language, perfect for image effects. (Code)
• Media Utility Scripts - Bash scripts for common conversion tasks on multimedia (video, image, audio) files.
• CleanUp.pictures - Free web application that lets you quickly cleanup or remove objects in any image. (Code) (Tweet)
• AVIF Converter - Convert all images to AVIF for free. No data is sent. (Code)
• Online GIF Tools
• Rustagram - Instagram filters in Rust.
• Image File Formats That Didn’t Make It (2021) (HN)
• Imagetools - Toolbox of easy-to-use import directives that transform and optimize your images at compile-time.
• Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images (2021)
• Digital Image Processing, 4th Edition Book (2018) (Python Code)
• One of these JPEGs is not like the other (2021) (HN)
• Pixel It - Create pixel art from an image. (Web)
• Datamosh - Mess around with image data using buffers, create some interesting & artistic results.
• Imagor - Fast, Docker-ready image processing server written in Go. (HN)
• Issues with Cloudflare Images (2021) (HN)
• Aydin - User-friendly, Fast, Self-Supervised and Unsupervised Image Denoising for All.
• PyTorch structural similarity (SSIM) loss
• Image Optimizer - Free and open source tool for optimizing images and vector graphics.
• Glitch Image Generator (Code)
• Awesome Visible Watermark Removal
• fpng - Super fast C++ .PNG writer/reader.
• A new protocol and tool for PNG file attachments (2022) (HN)
• img-diff-js - Node.js library to compare 2 images without native libs.
• RGBA Structural Similarity - Image similarity comparison simulating human perception (multiscale SSIM in Rust). (Web)
• AnsiGo - Simple ANSi to PNG converter written in pure Go.
• heic-cli - Convert HEIC/HEIF images to JPEG and PNG on the command line.
• CGIF - GIF encoder written in C.
• You Don't Know Gif - An analysis of a gif file and some weird gif features (2022)
• ResizeRight - Resizing packge for images or tensors, that supports both Numpy and PyTorch (fully differentiable) seamlessly.
• rawpy - RAW image processing for Python, a wrapper for libraw.
• Compressed Sensing in Python (2016)
• Unraveling The JPEG (2019) (HN) (Code)
• GIFT - Go Image Filtering Toolkit.
• Cascade - Node-based image editor with GPU-acceleration.
• imageproxy - Caching image proxy server written in go.
• image-size - Node module for detecting image dimensions.
• sic - Accessible image processing and conversion from the terminal.
• 3D Slicer - Free, open source and multi-platform software package widely used for medical, biomedical, and related imaging research. (Code)
• BPG Image format - Purpose is to replace the JPEG image format when quality or file size is an issue. (HN)
• Serverless Image Handler - Solution to dynamically handle images on the fly, utilizing SharpJS.
• Mosaic - Takes a folder of images (as a palette), and an image, and figures out how to tile the palette to resemble the image. (HN)
• image-js - Image processing and manipulation in JavaScript.
• IIIF | International Image Interoperability Framework (Awesome)
• Comparing images in Go
• SAIL - Format-agnostic cross-platform image decoding library providing rich APIs, from one-liners to complex use cases with custom I/O sources.
• JPEG XL reference implementation
• Image Similarity Measures - Implementation of eight evaluation metrics to access the similarity between two images.
• Toolbox repository to help evaluate various methods that perform image matching from a pair of images
• SSIM.JS - JavaScript Image Comparison.
• Imger - Collection of image processing algorithms written in pure Go.
• Hide a photo inside another photo (2022) (HN)
• ProxImaL - Python-embedded modeling language for image optimization problems.
• Announcing the Cloudflare Images Sourcing Kit (2022)
• Deno Deploy Scale Image - Image scaling app built on Deno Deploy and Go WebAssembly.
• Papaya - Image editing right in your browser.
• imgdiff - Calculate similarity of 2 images. Supports: jpeg, png.
• Polaroid - Hyper Fast and safe image manipulation library for python . Powered by rust.
• LibRaw - Library for reading and processing of RAW digicam images.
• scikit-image - Image processing in Python.
• scivision - Toolkit for Scientific Image Analysis.
• Digital Image Processing Implementations
• Fighting JPEG color banding, or how to compress JPEG even more without artifacts (2022) (HN)
• Image Processing with WebGL
• rscolorq - Spatial color quantization in Rust.
• simple_clustering - Image segmentation library and CLI tool using SNIC and SLIC superpixel algorithms.
• fast-png - PNG image decoder and encoder written entirely in JavaScript.
• Stitching - Python package for fast and robust Image Stitching. (HN)