Vista

Vista is a software environment for computer vision research. It is designed to support not only images, but also edge sets, camera models, and more complex data structures. Vista includes libraries of common computer vision and image processing algorithms. It is written in ANSI C, for UNIX platforms running X Windows, and it is freely available.

Vista is no longer under active development or revision by Art Pope, as he has moved on to a demanding full-time job. However, the source code will remain freely available and is being used at many sites by an active user community. Pointers to new developments will be posted to the What's New section below.

About Vista

For basic information about Vista, see:

Overview of Vista
Data file format used by Vista
Image abstraction provided by Vista
Facilities provided by Vista
Requirements for installing Vista

Also available on-line:

a CVPR '94 conference paper describing Vista (PostScript, 5 pages)
an Introduction to Vista Programming (PostScript, 34 pages)

What's New

14 Sept 2000: Gert Wollny has moved Vista to use Gnu configure instead of imake. That makes it much easire to install under Linux. You can get this new version of Vista from SourceForge.
28 Oct 1998: This page was updated and some comments added to the introduction regarding the current status of Vista. The mailing list is no longer working, but send your information to David Lowe for posting here.
2 May 1995: Public patch 3 released. It updates V2.1.2 to V2.1.3.
5 Oct 1994: Public patch 2 released. It updates V2.1.1 to V2.1.2.
29 Aug 1994: Sample camera calibration data file placed on FTP server. (Retrieve calib.v.gz.)
11 Jul 1994: Public patch 1 released. It updates V2.1 to V2.1.1.
30 Jun 1994: These WWW pages placed on-line.
27 Jun 1994: MRI brain scan data file placed on FTP server. (Retrieve brain.v.gz.)
16 Jun 1994: Release of Vista V2.1. What's new in V2.1.

Obtaining Vista

Vista V2.1.3 is distributed as a gzip-compressed tar file (0.8M): vista-2.1.3.tar.gz. (This file already includes public patches 1 through 3.) For installation under Linux, see the Sept. 2000 comment above under What's New.

Vista Mailing List

The Vista mailing list was being subject to spam and has been discontinued.

Sample Data Files

Several sample Vista data files are available on-line. An index page summarizes them.

For Futher Information

Contact Art Pope or David Lowe.

pope@cs.ubc.ca (last updated 28 Oct 98)