VTK VS CImg

Compare VTK vs CImg and see what are their differences.

VTK

Mirror of Visualization Toolkit repository (by Kitware)

CImg

The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing (by GreycLab)
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VTK CImg
5 3
2,490 1,420
2.7% 1.7%
10.0 9.3
6 days ago 3 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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VTK

Posts with mentions or reviews of VTK. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-05.

CImg

Posts with mentions or reviews of CImg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing VTK and CImg you can also consider the following projects:

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

ITK - Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

SVG++ - C++ SVG library

FreeImage - A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.

OpenMVG (open Multiple View Geometry) - open Multiple View Geometry library. Basis for 3D computer vision and Structure from Motion.

Boost.GIL - Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library | Requires C++14 since Boost 1.80

Video++ - Video++, a C++14 high performance video and image processing library.

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

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