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  5. OpenCV vs imgix vs scikit-image

OpenCV vs imgix vs scikit-image

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imgix
imgix
Stacks214
Followers322
Votes177
OpenCV
OpenCV
Stacks1.4K
Followers1.1K
Votes102
scikit-image
scikit-image
Stacks311
Followers129
Votes12
GitHub Stars6.4K
Forks2.3K

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Advice on imgix, OpenCV, scikit-image

Batool
Batool

Oct 6, 2021

Needs adviceonAndroid StudioAndroid Studio

I want to make a video template where we can change images and make a new video with template animation text and song but the images are our and the image which is chosen from a user can convert into different shapes just like cartoon or childhood or old age and at the last show both images in the template video. How I can do it in Android Studio?

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Steve
Steve

Lead Software Tools Engineer at Leonardo UK

Oct 24, 2021

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Since I believe Android Studio now supports Python plugins &/or invoking Python scripts I personally would use MoviePy (https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/) as a wrapper around FFMPEG &

ImageMagick (https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) - this combination will allow you to have a script that takes in an image or video, resizes it to a specified size, adds the text, (either scrolling it in or fading in/out or even with some special effects), then saves the output video. There are example scripts on the MoviePy site on how to do these. While you could do it yourself with FFMPEG & ImageMagick plus command line parameters I personally find using MoviePy much more clear & maintainable.

If you want the end user to be able to supply the image/video then you will need to set up a server somewhere that can take in the POSTed image and return the processed results.

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Detailed Comparison

imgix
imgix
OpenCV
OpenCV
scikit-image
scikit-image

imgix is the leading platform for end-to-end visual media processing. With robust APIs, SDKs, and integrations, imgix empowers developers to optimize, transform, manage, and deliver images and videos at scale through simple URL parameters.

OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform.

scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing.

Image API - Resize, crop, and composite multiple images by changing their URLs. Change output formats, device-pixel ratios, and chroma subsampling rates.; Responsive Images - Integrate imgix into the latest imaging standards without reprocessing your entire image library.; Video API - process, optimize, and deliver your streaming videos.; Asset Manager - Search, visualize, browse, and organize any assets in your cloud storage bucket.; Image Editing - Make simple edits (focalpoint crop, width/height adjustments, format changes) directly in Asset Manager and easily download or copy a link to a modified image.; Deliver - Leverage the imgix global CDN with more than 20 POPs worldwide.;
C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android;More than 47 thousand people of user community and estimated number of downloads exceeding 7 million;Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics
Provides I/O, filtering, morphology, transformations, measurement, annotation, color conversions, test data sets, etc.;Written in Python with a well-commented source code;Has had 5,709 commits made by 116 contributors representing 29,953 lines of code;Released under BSD-3-Clause license
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
6.4K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
2.3K
Stacks
214
Stacks
1.4K
Stacks
311
Followers
322
Followers
1.1K
Followers
129
Votes
177
Votes
102
Votes
12
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 28
    Image processing on demand
  • 24
    Easy setup
  • 18
    Reduce Development Costs
  • 18
    Smart Cropping
  • 15
    Efficient
Pros
  • 37
    Computer Vision
  • 18
    Open Source
  • 12
    Imaging
  • 10
    Machine Learning
  • 10
    Face Detection
Pros
  • 6
    More powerful
  • 4
    Anaconda compatibility
  • 2
    Great documentation
Integrations
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AngularJS
WordPress
WordPress
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Rails
Rails
Objective-C
Objective-C
Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage
Magento
Magento
Gatsby
Gatsby
JavaScript
JavaScript
Drift
Drift
No integrations availableNo integrations available

What are some alternatives to imgix, OpenCV, scikit-image?

Cloudinary

Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications' entire image and video management needs - uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery.

ImageKit

ImageKit

ImageKit offers a real-time URL-based API for image & video optimization, streaming, and 50+ transformations to deliver perfect visual experiences on websites and apps. It also comes integrated with a Digital Asset Management solution.

Cloudimage

Cloudimage

Effortless image resizing, optimization and CDN delivery. Make your site fully responsive and really fast.

Kraken.io

Kraken.io

It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF files. You can optimize your images in two ways - by providing an URL of the image you want to optimize or by uploading an image file directly to its API.

ImageEngine

ImageEngine

ImageEngine is an intelligent Image CDN that dynamically optimizes image content tailored to the end users device. Using device intelligence at the CDN edge, developers can greatly simplify their image management process while accelerating their site.

FFMPEG

FFMPEG

The universal multimedia toolkit.

GStreamer

GStreamer

It is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

GraphicsMagick

GraphicsMagick

GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. Comprised of 267K physical lines (according to David A. Wheeler's SLOCCount) of source code in the base package (or 1,225K including 3rd party libraries) it provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats including important formats like DPX, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PNM, and TIFF.

Piio

Piio

Piio, Inc. offers a superior set of products with the most advanced technology for image optimization and web performance. Piio is helping over 5000 companies and developers and delivering billions of images to users around the globe.

ImageBoss

ImageBoss

Content aware image resizing, cropping, compression, cache and globally deliver. All web development best practices, hassle free in one simple and powerful API.

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