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<p>
Many of these containers were inspired by the RESOLVE/C++ course
sequence at Ohio State. As such, many of the objects do not support
Many of these containers were inspired by the work of the <a
href="http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~weide/rsrg/index.html">Reusable
Software Research Group</a> at Ohio State. As such, many of the objects do not support
copying in any form, only swapping is allowed. That is, when objects
are added or removed from most of these containers they are swapped in
and out, not copied.
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<questions group="General">
<question text="How can I cite dlib?">
If you use dlib in your research then please use the following citation:
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Davis E. King. <a href="http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume10/king09a/king09a.pdf">Dlib-ml: A Machine Learning Toolkit</a>.
<i>Journal of Machine Learning Research</i> 10, pp. 1755-1758, 2009
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@Article{dlib09,
author = {Davis E. King},
title = {Dlib-ml: A Machine Learning Toolkit},
journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
year = {2009},
volume = {10},
pages = {1755-1758},
}
</pre>
</question>
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<question text="Why isn't serialization working?">
Here are the possibilities:
<ul>
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<p>
Dlib is a cross-platform open source software library written in the C++ programming
Dlib is a general purpose cross-platform open source software library written in the C++ programming
language. Its design is heavily influenced by ideas from design by contract and component-based
software engineering. This means it is, first and foremost, a collection of independent
software components, each accompanied by extensive documentation and thorough debugging modes.
</p>
<p>
Generally speaking, there is no focus on any specific domain in the library. It contains a variety
of software objects for dealing with networking, threads (message passing, futures, etc.),
graphical interfaces, complex data structures, linear algebra, machine learning, XML and text
parsing, numerical optimization, Bayesian networks, and numerous other tasks.
Since development began in 2002, dlib has grown to include a wide
variety of tools. In particular, it now contains software objects
for dealing with networking, threads, graphical interfaces, complex
data structures, linear algebra, statistical machine learning, image
processing, data mining, XML and text parsing, numerical
optimization, Bayesian networks, and numerous other tasks. In
recent years, much of the development has been focused on creating
a broad set of statistical machine learning tools. However, dlib
remains a general purpose library and <a href="howto_contribute.html">welcomes contributions</a> of high
quality software components useful in any domain.
</p>
<p>
The most persistent theme in the library is the ubiquitous application of contract programming.
You can read about this on the <a href="howto_contribute.html#1">how to contribute</a> page
for more information. However, from the point of view of a user of this library it basically
means there exists complete and precise documentation for every function and class in the library
as well as aggressive debugging modes that can be enabled.
</p>
<p>
I always try to make sure everything is as portable as possible. All platform specific code is
confined inside the API wrappers. Everything else is either layered on top of those wrappers
or is written in pure ISO standard C++. Currently the library is known to work on OS X,
MS Windows, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs, and HP-UX. It should work on any POSIX platform but I
haven't had the opportunity to test it on any others (if you have access to other platforms and
would like to help increase this list then let me know).
Part of the development philosophy of dlib is a dedication to
portability and ease of use. Therefore, all code in dlib is designed
to be as portable as possible and similarly to not require a user to
configure or install anything. To help achieve this, all platform
specific code is confined inside the API wrappers. Everything else is
either layered on top of those wrappers or is written in pure ISO
standard C++. Currently the library is known to work on OS X, MS
Windows, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs, and HP-UX. It should work on any
POSIX platform but I haven't had the opportunity to test it on any
others (if you have access to other platforms and would like to help
increase this list then let me know).
</p>
<p>
The rest of this page explains everything you need to know to get started using the library. It
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page. Or if you are having trouble finding where a particular object's documentation is located you may
be able to find it by consulting the <a href="term_index.html">index</a>.</p>
<p>
The library is also covered by the very liberal Boost Software License so feel free to use it
however you like.
The library is also covered by the very liberal Boost Software License
so feel free to use it any way you like. However, if you use dlib in
your research then please cite <a href="faq.html#How can I cite dlib?">its Journal of Machine Learning Research paper</a> when
publishing.
</p>
<p>
Much of the organization and notation used in this library I learned from the
<a href="http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~weide/sce/now/">Software Component Engineering</a>
course sequence at OSU.
Finally, I must give some credit to the <a
href="http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~weide/rsrg/index.html">Reusable
Software Research Group</a> at Ohio State since they taught me much
of the software engineering techniques used in the creation of this library.
</p>
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