OpenVL is the future of developer-friendly computer vision - existing vision frameworks provide access at a very low level, such as individual algorithm names (often named after their inventor), while OpenVL provides a higher-level abstraction to hide the details of sophisticated vision techniques: developers use a task-centred API to supply a description of the problem, and OpenVL interprets the description and provides a solution.

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@InProceedings{Afrah:ICDSC2008,
    author = {Amir Afrah and Gregor Miller and Donovan Parks and Matthias Finke and Sidney Fels},
    title = {Hive: A Distributed System for Vision Processing},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras},
    series = {ICDSC'08},
    pages = {1--9},
    month = {September},
    year = {2008},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    address = {New York City, New York, U.S.A.},
    isbn = {978-1-4244-2665-2},
    location = {Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.},
    doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDSC.2008.4635724},
    url = {http://www.openvl.org/papers.php?id=Afrah:ICDSC2008}
}