Computer Vision

Title	Description	License
OpenCV	A library of programming functions for real time computer vision with 500+ algorithms. Comes with a companion book Learning OpenCV	BSD license
Open SURF	SURF feature extraction library written in C++ with OpenCV	GPLv3
Integrating Vision Toolkit (IVT)	C++ computer vision library with an object-oriented architecture. The IVT comes with a companion textbook: P. Azad, T. Gockel and R. Dillmann. Computer Vision: Principles and Practices	modified BSD license (3-clause BSD). details
Numenta Vision Toolkit	Software for creating an image recognition system using Numenta’s HTM technology
Amsterdam Library of Object Images (ALOI)	An image collection of 1,000 small objects, with each systematically captured at different viewing angles and illumination. Details in: J. M. Geusebroek, G. J. Burghouts, and A. W. M. Smeulders, The Amsterdam library of object images, Int. J. Comput. Vision, 61(1), 103-112, January, 2005 (PDF).	free for research use

6.870 Object Recognition and Scene Understanding – MIT course notes from Prof. Antonio Torralba

Pointcloud Viewing and Editing Tools

Meshlab : open source tool for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes. I find that it also works well for viewing clouds.

Pointtools View Pro : commercial software (21-day evaluation period) but you can use some features such as the cloud viewer indefinitely in Free Mode.

Scananalyze : app for viewing, editing, aligning, and merging range images to produce dense polygon meshes, used in the Stanford Digital Michelangelo Project (1997-2004) to assemble 3D models of Michelangelo’s statues from laser range data.