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Welcome to the homepage of open_iA, a tool for the visual analysis and processing of volumetric datasets, with a focus on industrial datasets. It is developed and maintained by the Computed Tomography Research Group at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus Wels.

Getting open_iA

Starting with open_iA 2017.05, we provide pre-built binaries for Windows and Linux. Please see our Release page!

The User Guide can get you started on the basic usage concepts.

Development and Contributing

open_iA is intended as a framework for research prototypes and tools. In our Development section we have started to gather information on how you can start writing your own extensions for usage from within open_iA.

We also highly welcome improvements to the core libraries, ideally in the form of pull requests (see the excellent github documentation on working with pull requests in case you have never worked with these).

Building open_iA

In case you want to start developing for open_iA, you need to build it from the sources provided in this repository. You can either clone this git repository, or download a zip file containing the sources of the latest release. We provide descriptions for the build procedure under Windows using Visual Studio 2015, as well as under Ubuntu Linux using g++.

References

If you use any of the tools included in open_iA for your research, we would appreciate if you cite the according paper as mentioned in the Tools section.

License

open_iA is released under the GPL v3 license. See also the LICENSE file in this repository. open_iA uses several libraries and other documents. See Attribution for a list of sources.