Alternatives to Luminoth

Dlib is an open-source C++ machine learning and computer vision toolkit for on-device deep learning.

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

Open source computer vision to count and track moving objects from cameras or video on your own hardware.

Open source Python framework that wraps OpenCV in a beginner-friendly API for classic computer vision prototyping.

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

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

Open source NVR that runs real-time AI object detection on your own hardware, so camera feeds never leave the house.

Pipeless is an open-source computer vision framework for running real-time video analysis with Python frame hooks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emgu CV brings OpenCV computer vision to .NET developers in C#, VB.NET, C++ and IronPython.

Autodistill labels your raw images with a foundation model, then trains a small vision model whose weights you own.

No-code computer vision that detects people, objects and actions on any camera or feed — cloud or on-premise.

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

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

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

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

Event-based vision SDK from Prophesee for real-time, low-power detection, tracking and counting pipelines

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.

Open-source AI security agent that answers plain-English questions about what your cameras recorded.

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

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

Assert AI turns your existing CCTV cameras into real-time computer vision for safety, quality and throughput.

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