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<p>
  The <tt><i>CImg Library</i></tt> is an <b>open source</b>, <b>C++ toolkit</b> for <b>image processing</b>,
  designed with these properties in mind :

  <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="16">
    <tr><td><img src="img/item_usefulness.jpg" alt="Usefulness"></img></td>
      <td><hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="100%"></hr>
        <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> defines <i>classes</i> and <i>methods</i>
        to manage images in your own C++ code. You can use it to load/save various file formats, access pixel values,
        display/transform/filter images, draw primitives (text, faces, curves, 3d objects, ...), compute statistics,
        manage user interactions on images, and so on...
    </td></tr>
    <tr><td><img src="img/item_genericity.jpg" alt="Genericity"></img></td>
      <td><hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="100%"></hr>
        <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> defines a single image class which can represent datasets having up to
        <i>4-dimensions</i> (from 1d scalar signals to 3d hyperspectral volumetric images),
        with <i>template pixel types</i> (<tt>bool,char,int,float,...</tt>).<br/>
        It also handles image <i>collections</i> and <i>sequences</i>.
    </td></tr>
    <tr><td><img src="img/item_portability.jpg" alt="Portability"></img></td>
      <td><hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="100%"></hr>
        <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> is <i>self-contained</i> and thus <i>highly portable</i>. It fully works on
        <i>different operating systems</i> (<tt>Unix,Windows,MacOS X,*BSD,...</tt>) and is compatible
        with <i>various C++ compilers</i> (<tt>Visual C++,g++,icc,...</tt>).
    </td></tr>
    <tr><td><img src="img/item_simplicity.jpg" alt="Simplicity"></img></td>
      <td><hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="100%"></hr>
        <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> is <i>lightweight</i>. It is made of a single header file
        <a href="http://cimg.cvs.sourceforge.net/cimg/CImg/CImg.h?view=markup"><tt>CImg.h</tt></a>
        that must be included in your C++ source. It defines only <i>four</i> different classes, encapsulated
        in a namespace.
        It can be compiled using a minimal set of standard C++ and system libraries.<br/>
        <i>No need for exotic or complex dependencies</i>.
    </td></tr>
    <tr><td><img src="img/item_extensibility.jpg" alt="Extensibility"></img></td>
      <td><hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="100%"></hr>
        Although not mandatory, <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> can use functionalities of external tools/libraries such as
        <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/">ImageMagick</a>,
        <a href="http://www.graphicsmagick.org/">GraphicsMagick</a>,
        <a href="http://xmedcon.sourceforge.net/">XMedCon</a>,
        <a href="http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/">FFMPEG</a>,
        <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html">libpng</a>,
        <a href="http://www.ijg.org/">libjpeg</a>,
        <a href="http://www.libtiff.org/">libtiff</a>,
        <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/">Magick++</a>,
        <a href="http://http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/">OpenCV</a>,
        <a href="http://www.netlib.org/lapack/">Lapack</a>,
        <a href="http://libboard.sourceforge.net/">Board</a>,
        <a href="http://www.openexr.com/">OpenEXR</a>
        or
        <a href="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW3</a>.
        Moreover, a simple <i>plug-in</i> mechanism allows any user to directly enhance the library
        capabilities according to his needs.
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    <tr><td><img src="img/item_freedom.jpg" alt="Freedom"></img></td>
      <td><hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="100%"></hr>
        <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> is a <i>free, open-source library</i> distributed under the
        <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.txt"><i>CeCILL-C</i></a> (close to the GNU LGPL)
        or
        <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt"><i>CeCILL</i></a> (compatible with the GNU GPL)
        licenses</i></a>. It can be used in commercial applications.
</td></tr>
</table>
</p>

<blockquote>
  <b>CImg</b> stands for <b><i>Cool Image</i></b> : It is <i>easy to use</i>, <i>efficient</i> and is intended to be
  a very pleasant toolbox to design image processing algorithms in C++. Due to its generic conception, it covers a wide range
  of image processing applications.
</blockquote>

<br/><img src="img/item_authors.jpg" alt="Authors"></img>
<blockquote>
  <a href="http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/">David Tschumperl&eacute;</a> (project leader)<br/><br/>
  with the help of many contributors around the world :<br/><br/>
  <i>
    Antonio Albiol,
    Haz-Edine Assemlal,
    Vincent Barra,
    Romain Blei,
    Yohan Bentolila,
    Jerome Boulanger,
    Frederic Devernay,
    Fran&ccedil;ois-Xavier Dup&eacute;,
    Eric Fausett,
    Jean-Marie Favreau,
    Sebastien Fourey,
    Alexandre Fournier,
    Vincent Garcia,
    David Grimbichler,
    Jinwei Gu,
    Jean-Daniel Guyot,
    Matt Hanson,
    Sebastien Hanel,
    Michael Holroyd,
    Christoph Hormann,
    Hon-Kwok Fung,
    Werner Jainek,
    Daniel Kondermann,
    Pierre Kornprobst,
    Orges Leka,
    Francois Lauze,
    Xie Long,
    Thomas Martin,
    Cesar Martinez,
    Jean Martinot,
    Arnold Meijster (Center for High Performance Computing and Visualization, University of Groningen/The Netherlands)
    Nikita Melnichenko,
    Baptiste Mougel,
    Julien Morat,
    Guillaume Nee,
    Andrea Onofri,
    Renaud Peteri,
    Martin Petricek,
    Paolo Prete,
    Adrien Reboisson,
    Klaus Schneider,
    Jakob Schluttig,
    Konstantin Spirin,
    Rainer Steffens,
    David G. Starkweather,
    Grzegorz Szwoch,
    Thierry Thomas,
    Yu-En-Yun,
    Vo Duc Khanh,
    Phillip Wood,
    Bug Zhao,
    Haibo Zheng.
  </i>
</blockquote>

<br/><img src="img/item_licenses.jpg" alt="Licenses"></img>
<blockquote>
  The <tt><i>CImg Library</i></tt> is an open-source product distributed under <b>two distinct licenses</b> :
  the library core itself is dual-licensed and
  can be governed either by the
  <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.txt"><b>CeCILL-C</b> License</a> (LGPL-like),
  or the
  <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt"><b>CeCILL</b> License</a> (GPL-compatible).
  Most of the other package files are distributed under the
  <a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt"><b>CeCILL</b> License</a>.
  Both are <b>open source licenses</b>, the CeCILL-C being less restrictive than the CeCILL.<br/><br/>
  The <tt><i>CImg Library</i></tt> source code has been registered to the <a href="http://app.legalis.net/paris/">APP</a>
  (French Agency for the Protection of Programs) by the <a href="http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html">INRIA</a>,
  under registration number <i>IDDN.FR.001.040004.000.S.P.2004.000.21000.</i>
</blockquote>

<br/><img src="img/item_learnmore.jpg" alt="Learn More"></img>
<ul>
  <li>The <a href="screenshots.shtml">Screenshots</a> section illustrates some of the different source code examples provided in
    the <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> package.</li>
  <li>The <a href="reference/group__cimg__tutorial.html">Tutorial</a> section shows the basic use of <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> classes
    and functions with a small first code.</li>
  <li>You can look at the quite complete <a href="CImg_slides.pdf">CImg Library presentation slides</a> (.pdf format) which gives
    more insights on the different library concepts.</li>
  <li>Online web statistics on the <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> website activity are available
    <a href="http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=895001&guest=1">here</a>,
    <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=96492&ugn=cimg">here</a> and below :</li>
</ul>
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<br/><img src="img/item_quickhistory.jpg" alt="Quick History"></img>
<blockquote>
  The development of the <tt><i>CImg Library</i></tt> began at the end of 1999, when I started my PhD thesis
  in the <a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/odyssee"><img border="0" height="16" alt="" src="img/logoODYSSEE.jpg"></img> Lab</a>
  at the <a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/"><img border="0" height="16" alt="" src="img/logoINRIA.gif"></img> Sophia Antipolis</a>.
  It was designed to help me and my colleagues developing various image processing algorithms,
  for datasets as simple as 2D scalar images, or as complex as 3D volumes of diffusion tensors. I also used it for
  courses on image processing I teached at the university. As a result, the <tt><i>CImg library</i></tt>
  has been always intended to be <i>compact</i>, <i>easy to install and to use</i>, <i>multi-platform</i> and <i>generic</i>.
  It provides a lot of basic functions that any human would like to find in a C++ image processing framework.<br/><br/>
  I am now a permanent researcher of the  <a href="http://www.cnrs.fr"><img border="0" alt="" height="32" src="img/logoCNRS.gif"></img>
    institution</a>,
  working in the <a href="http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/EquipeImage"><img border="0" alt="" height="32" src="img/logoIMAGE.gif"></img>
    group</a> at the <a href="http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr"><img border="0" alt="" height="32" src="img/logoGREYC.gif"></img>
    GREYC lab</a> in Caen/France.
  I am still using, maintaining and updating the <tt><i>CImg Library</i></tt>, and will probably do it for the next couple of years.
</blockquote>

<br/><img src="img/item_howtohelp.jpg" alt="How to Help ?"></img>
<blockquote>
  The <tt><i>CImg Library</i></tt> is an open source C++ library which is mainly developped during
  free time. If you enjoy using <tt><i>CImg</i></tt>, you may contribute to the project
  in different ways. This will motivate me to continue the work.
  <ul>
    <li>You can help <tt><i>CImg</i></tt> to be more widely known, by displaying a
      <a href="CImg_flyer.pdf">CImg Flyer</a> at work, in your lab or school
      (available in <a href="CImg_flyer.pdf">.PDF</a> or <a href="img/CImg_flyer.jpg">.JPEG</a> formats).
    <li>You can report bugs, propose patches or new functionalities, using the <tt><i>CImg</i></tt>
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=96492">forums</a> or
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=96492">trackers</a>.</li>
    <li>You can write
      <a href="reference/group__cimg__tutorial.html">tutorials</a>
      or parts of the <a href="reference/index.html">documentation</a>.</li>
    <li>If you just want to say you've been happy with the library, you can send me a postcard from your place, to the following address : <br/>
      <i>David Tschumperl&eacute;, GREYC (UMR CNRS 6072), Equipe IMAGE, 6 Bd du Mar&eacute;chal Juin, 14050 Caen Cedex, FRANCE.</i><br/><br/>
      31 postcards received yet (I still have empty space on my wall ! :) ), from :<br/><br/>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="img/postcard1.jpg" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','420','320','yes');return false;">
            Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</a></li>
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            Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.</a></li>
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            Microsoft Research, Beijing/China.</a></li>
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    <li>If you have too much money, you can also <a href="http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=96492">
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    <br/><img src="img/item_copyrights.jpg" alt="Copyrights"></img>
    <blockquote>
      <font size="-2">
        Copyrights (C) From october 2004, David Tschumperlé - GREYC UMR CNRS 6072, Image group.<br/>
        Copyrights (C) January->September 2004, David Tschumperlé.<br/>
        Copyrights (C) 2000->2003, David Tschumperlé - INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. Odyssée group.<br/>
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