AEyes Studio is an image processing and manipulation software written in pure C. It is capable of a wide variety of applications and effects, ranging from simple colorimetric editing to intelligent resizing with content awareness.
Main tools and librairies used for development
Accompanied by my three colleagues Nigel Andrews, Thibault Roussel and Samuel Quesne, this project marked the end of my second year of preparatory classes in computer science at EPITA Paris. For the complete report you can find our final defense paper as well as the source code on the github page.
AEyes main user interface
The AEyes Studio software was realized using very light libraries such as SDL2, GSL and GTK. It includes more than twenty algorithms of image processing and color grading, all in a modern and simple user interface. The implemented features include the great classics of image editing, a gallery of blurs as well as image distortion, various coloring and structure algorithms.
Different Binarization Methods (Otsu, Gaussian, simple threshold)
Different Colorization Methods
Different Blur Algorithms (Box Blur, Gaussian, Directional, Median, Circular, Vignette)
Surface Blur at different intensity levels
Different Distortion Filters (Waves, Swirl, Perspective)
One of the most advanced features included in AEyes Studio is the content aware resize function, also known as Seam Carving. The purpose of this algorithm is to recognize the important parts of an image and to be able to reduce the height or width of an image while preserving the appearance of the image, without distortion or raw cropping. To do so we create a power map from a Sobel Filter, which let us cut through the least important seams of the picture to remove the wanted amount of pixels without impacting the main subjects.
Original Picture
Computed Power Map
Seam Carving in action (©MIT)
This project was close to my heart because I have been using this kind of photo editing software for years now and being able to create one myself from scratch was a rich learning experience. I really enjoyed working on this project as a team leader. Not only did I learned a lot of things in C but also in global image processing, in creating user interfaces, in team management and much more! The group was extremely motivated, ambitious and productive, all in a friendly working atmosphere which could only make the experience better!
