Projects

ZXing

ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode reader library implemented in Java.

Cheese

Cheese is a GNOME application designed to take photos and videos of you and your friends with your webcam, add special effects to them and share them with your friends and family. It was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx ... [More] , and has most of the classical photo booth features after a bare couple of months of development. Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. [Less]

UFRaw

The UFRaw (Unidentified Flying Raw) is a tool for reading and manipulating raw images from digital cameras. It supports most of the existing raw formats (any format supported by DCRaw). UFRaw can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in.

Virtual Lighttable and Darkroom

Darktable is a plug-in based virtual light table and darkroom for photographers: it allows sorting a taken photo session, organize it via tags and develop raw images and enhance them using over a dozen of plug-ins like unsharp masking, lens correction, color zones, sophisticated desaturation, artistic vignetting, split toning and so on.

CHDK

The CHDK add-on implements new features like RAW, battery indicator, live histogram (RGB/luminance), zebra mode (blinking areas of over-/underexposure), DOF calculator, scripts (intervalometer, exposure/focus/... bracketing etc.), Tv, Av & ISO overrides, text reader, file browser, calendar ... [More] , games and much more. There are now several different builds, implementing features assisting taking 3D-Stereo photos, motion detection etc. The CHDK firmware add-on does not touch the original firmware of your camera. It is an additional program which gets loaded into the memory of the camera. [Less]

libgphoto2

gPhoto2 is a free, redistributable, ready to use set of digital camera software applications for Unix-like systems, written by a whole team of dedicated volunteers around the world. It supports more than 800 cameras.

ZoneMinder

ZoneMinder is a suite of integrated applications intended for use in video camera security applications, including home cctv, theft prevention and child or family member monitoring. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or more video or network ... [More] cameras attached to a Linux system. It also features a user-friendly Web interface which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable, permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder supports both directly connected and network cameras. [Less]

blueMarine

The blueMarine project is about an open source workflow for digital photography.

Motion

Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion. The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system. Motion is a command line based tool ... [More] whose output can be either jpeg, ppm fies or mpeg video sequences. Motion is strictly command line driven and can run as a daemon with a rather small footprint. Motion is the perfect tool for keeping an eye on your property, keeping only those images that are interesting. [Less]

MulleSight

Tiny application for capturing pictures taken with your iSight camera (all cameras supported by QuickTime™ will work as well). It features a complete AppleScript interface, so you can do all sort of stuff with it.