Exiv2 - Image metadata library and tools. QVision: Qt's Image, Video and Computer Vision Library. Opencv.
Installation guide: OpenCV 2.4 with Visual Studio C++ 2010. After some trouble installing OpenCV 2.4 in Windows and using it with Visual C++ 2010, I decided to write a post about this, so I can hopefully save you some time figuring this one out.
It is based on this wiki, but that describes how to build with CMake etc, which is not necessary (anymore?). Okay, so first you need to download OpenCV 2.4 here. After downloading, you need to extract it. Compiling and configuring the OpenCV library for use with Visual Studio 2010. Using OpenCV with Qt. OpenCV – Morphological Skeleton. Skeleton In many computer vision applications we often have to deal with huge amounts of data: processing can therefore be slow and requires a lot of memory.
In order to achieve faster processing and a smaller memory footprint, we sometimes use a more compact representation called a skeleton.