My company has spent several thousand dollars over the past 5 years, paying C/C++ programmers to create and update OpenCV-C, which is a plain-c wrapper for OpenCV. This allows for projects like Xojo-OpenCVC, which use that library to expose the openCV functions in native Xojo code.
We did this because we needed OpenCV functionality for an in-house app I’m building to run a motion picture film scanner. The functionality we need from OpenCV-C is all working, but while we had these programmers working on it, we implemented a bunch of other stuff that is not tested, and probably not complete. There is also more that needs to be added in order to make it a more complete wrapper for OpenCV.
So I’m putting out a call for help here. Our budget for hiring someone to do this work is exhausted, and at this point I can only pay for things that we will need in-house. At the moment, we’re all set on that front. But I’d like to see this project move forward because the functionality of OpenCV blows anything that Xojo can do natively absolutely out of the water, including simple stuff like resizing very large images, but also sophisticated object detection and machine vision tools.
Let me know if you’re interested in helping out with this. We have a growing list of features that we’d like to finish testing/implementation on. I’d like to find someone experienced with writing C wrappers for C++ libraries, since that’s all this really is.