Installation

Prerequisites

The minimum set of dependencies required to run Glimpse includes:

• Python 2.6 (or later but not Python 3)
• Numpy 1.3.0 (or later)
• Scipy 0.7.2 (or later)
• Python Imaging Library 1.1.7 (or later)
• Enthought Traits 3.4 (or later)

This allows Glimpse to function as a feature extractor, but will prohibit any other uses (e.g., classification of an image based on those features).

Additional functionality (e.g., SVM classifiers, parallel processing) requires the following packages. (Note that Glimpse may work with previous versions, but this is untested.)

• LIBSVM with python modules 2.91 (or later) for image classification
• libjpeg 8 (or later) for I/O of JPEG-formatted images in Python Imaging Library
• Enthought Traits GUI 3.4 (or later) for graphical editing of model parameters
• Gearman library 0.14 (or later) for cluster-based feature extraction
• pyzmq 2.1.11 (or later) for cluster-based feature extraction
• Cython 0.12 (or later) to modify C++ or Cython code

Additionally, the following packages are recommended for working with Glimpse.

• IPython
• matplotlib

Installing on Ubuntu/Debian Linux

On Ubuntu or Debian Linux, you can use the APT package manager. To install all dependencies, type:

> sudo apt-get install python python-dev python-setuptools \
  python-numpy python-scientific python-imaging libjpeg8 \
  python-traits python-traitsgui libsvm2 python-libsvm \
  gearman-job-server gearman-tools zmq pyzmq

Installing Glimpse

To build Glimpse, just unpack it and type:

> python setup.py install

Alternatively, the project can be installed from the Python Package Index with:

> pip install glimpse