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 iulib
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 Iulib implements easy-to-use image and video I/O functions, as well as a large number of common image processing functions.
 
 Design goals are high portability, easy-to-understand algorithms, no reliance on STL, and using a minimal set of data structures.  Almost all interfaces are written in terms of just numbers and the simple narray array class (see below).