Improv 5.1

Improv is a tool for basic real time image processing at low resolution, e.g. suitable for mobile robots.
Improv program has been developed for PCs with the Linux operating system and runs under X Windows.
Improv works with a number of inexpensive low-resolution digital cameras (no framegrabber required).
Main features:
- Modular design, allowing for easy integration of new functionality.
- Image processing operations are contained within plugins, compiled as statically
- linked files (.so), which can be loaded and unloaded at run time.
- Improved support for still image sequences.
- An abstract Camera class, simplifying the creation of new camera drivers.
- A completely customisable interface, allowing for complex image processing sequences.
- Written using the QT Windowing library.
- Portable autoconf/automake build scripts.
Improv also includes support for the following cameras:
- Quickcam grayscale camera (parallel port) [no longer sold]
- Make sure to set the protocol of your parallel port correctly (boot-up setting to either ECP or EPP should work).
- Quickcam Color V2 camera (parallel port) [no longer sold]
- Sorry, none of the newer QuickCams work - Connectix/Logitech refuses to disclose the low-level interface.
- Various web cameras with cpia driver, e.g. ZoomCam
- Video 4 Linux cameras
- and preliminary support for Video 4 Linux 2 cameras.
Improv displays the source image (from either a still image or a live camera) in the first window, while subsequent image operations can be applied to this image in five more windows. For each sub-window, a sequence of image processing routines may be specified.