[Boost][GIL][GSOC 2021] Contribute to the library

From: sayan chaudhuri (sayanchaudhuri758_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-27 17:08:36

Hello Everyone,
                        My name is Sayan Chaudhuri. I am a final
year,undergraduate student,in the Computer Science and Engineering
department of IEM,India . I am eager to participate in the GSOC 2021 and
willing to contribute to the Boost GIL library.
                         I have already gone through the wiki list of Boost
GIL listing the various image processing and computer vision algorithms
that have not been implemented yet. I have also gone through the
Contributing documents for BOOST GIL. . While going through the Boost
Mailing List Archives, I found that Igor Antropov had suggested to develop
ORB descriptor during his GSOC tenure but it has not been implemented yet..
I am therefore eager to develop the ORB descriptor for Boost GIL during
GSOC 2021. ORB is useful in many situations like object recognition and
structure for motion and also it is suitable for real time applications
unlike SIFT and SURF. I also found out that while using Boost , everytime I
need to see the output , I need to save the output in order to view
it,thereby unnecessarily wasting memory when I do not wish to save the
output.  So, the functionality of imshow() for OPENCV is missing for Boost
GIL. I am also eager to work on that functionality as well during GSOC
2021. Would therefore anyone is interested in mentoring me?
                         As my programming competency test for Boost GIL, I
have implemented the KMeans algorithm from scratch using Boost GIL and I
have raised a pull request- https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pull/587. I
would kindly request if someone can kindly review it. Also, I would like to
know whether there are any similar issues  that I can work on currently.