Dlib is a general purpose

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software

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written in the programming language C++. Its design is heavily influenced by ideas from

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and

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. Thus it is, first and foremost, a set of independent software components. It is

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released under a

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. Since development began in 2002, Dlib has grown to include a wide variety of tools. As of 2016, it contains software components for dealing with networking, threads,

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linear algebra Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as :a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b, linear maps such as :(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n, and their representations in vector spaces and through matrix (mathemat ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

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and text parsing,

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s, and many other tasks. In recent years, much of the development has been focused on creating a broad set of statistical machine learning tools and in 2009 Dlib was published in the ''

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''. Since then it has been used in a wide range of domains.Nakashima, Yuta, Noboru Babaguchi, and Jianping Fan. "Detecting intended human objects in human-captured videos." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on. IEEE, 2010.

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DLib: Library for Machine Learning
{{DEFAULTSORT:dlib C++ libraries C++ numerical libraries Computer vision software Data mining and machine learning software Free software programmed in C++ Free statistical software Software using the Boost license

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