After receiving feedback, I went ahead and split out the raw C wrappers and Haskell bindings. You can find them at www.github.com/arjuncomar/opencv-raw. I'll upload it to hackage as opencv-raw once I have uploader privileges.
Regards, Arjun On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Arjun Comar <nru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I've been hard at work on a new set of OpenCV bindings that will hopefully > solve a lot of the shortcomings with previous attempts. An automatic header > parser has been used to generate a full set of Haskell bindings for the C++ > API, and I'm now working to create a pleasant Haskell API. The plan is to > expose major functionality through pipes for two reasons: 1) OpenCV is not > very referentially transparent, and so you're stuck in IO for anything > non-trivial. Lazy IO is potentially problematic, and so immediate > incorporation of a proper streaming library is probably best. 2) Computer > vision algorithms are frequently expressed in terms of pipelines of > functionality, and a pipes approach can provide a very natural API for > expressing these algorithms. > > At this stage, I could very much use input from anyone who's interested in > these bindings. I've got the basics of a library forming, but there's a ton > to do and help in the form of pull requests are very very welcome. I could > also use feedback on what's been done so far (especially criticisms) as > well as feature requests. > > The current plan is to develop the pipes API for the core functionality. > The plan is to provide the major functionality from core, highgui, imgproc, > features2d, contrib, ml, flann, video, and objdetect as quickly as I can > before trying to cover any of the more specialized parts of the API. The > functions and types from these modules (baring a few major and important > exceptions) are automatically translated into C wrappers and raw Haskell > bindings. > > If there's sufficient interest in these raw bindings separately from the > API I'm developing, I'll release them as a separate package on Hackage. I'm > calling my project revelation for the moment because I'm bad at naming > things and it was the best pun I could come up with. > > Github: www.github.com/arjuncomar/revelation > > Regards, > Arjun >
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