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Olympus turns a Multimodal LLM into a task router that dispatches 20+ computer vision tasks to specialist models.

Open-source research framework that adapts text-to-image diffusion models to follow natural-language instructions across vision tasks.

Dragoneye turns your footage into structured records using zero-shot vision models you describe in plain English — no labeling, no training.

QOVES scores 160+ beauty markers in an AI facial analysis and turns them into a surgery-free glow-up protocol backed by named studies.

Google Cloud Vision AI: APIs for image labeling, OCR, document extraction, and video analysis

OpenCV: free, open-source computer vision library for real-time image and video processing

Real estate computer vision AI that turns property photos into standardized condition, feature and compliance data.

asticaVision delivers image description, face and object detection, OCR, and moderation through one computer vision API.

Synthetic data generation for computer vision that ships photorealistic, auto-annotated training sets on demand.

Synthetic data cloud for computer vision: physically-based rendering that generates annotated, multi-sensor training imagery.

Meta's open-source promptable segmentation model for selecting and tracking objects in images and video

Free scene text recognition in the browser with PARSeq's permuted autoregressive OCR model

Open-source Java software for processing and analyzing scientific images, extensible through hundreds of plugins

SAM 3 does text-prompt, open-vocabulary segmentation and tracking in images and video — free to try in Meta's playground.

lenso.ai is an AI reverse image search engine with separate face, place, duplicate, related and similar search models.

UnrealCV turns Unreal Engine 4/5 scenes into photorealistic synthetic image datasets with exact ground truth for computer vision.

Open-source object detection with Faster R-CNN and SSD, built by Tryolabs for learning classic computer vision pipelines.

2D and 3D face alignment research code — 68-point 2D-FAN and 3D-FAN landmark models plus the 230,000-image LS3D-W dataset.

Roboflow is a computer vision platform for labeling data, training custom detection models, and deploying to cloud or edge.

Offline image annotation desktop app with local SAM2, SAM3 and YOLO-World AI — one-time purchase from $49.

Cerul turns video archives into semantic video search — ask in plain words, get the exact timestamped moment.

MC3-18 fine-tuned on UCF-101: an Apache-2.0 PyTorch checkpoint for 101-class trimmed-clip video action recognition at 87.05% top-1.

Janus Pro unifies multimodal image understanding and text-to-image generation in one open-source DeepSeek model.

Intel's free, Apache 2.0 computer vision platform for training detection, segmentation and classification models on your own hardware.

Identify Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typefaces from an image with a free CJK font detector.

Go bindings for OpenCV 4 that let you run computer vision, DNN model inference and CUDA-accelerated processing inside a Go program.

MagicDrive is an open-source framework that generates multi-camera street-view images and video from 3D geometry controls for autonomous driving

3DMatch is a Princeton research codebase and benchmark suite for learning local 3D geometric descriptors from RGB-D reconstructions.

Open-source scene text detector that fixes EAST's long-line weaknesses

UrbanKisaan sells plug-and-play grow modules plus AI speed breeding and a conversational farm OS for controlled-environment agriculture.