Getting Started Guide

What is Qualcomm Computer Vision?

Qualcomm Computer Vision is a computer vision library being released by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. The library is targeted toward sophisticated Computer Vision (CV) application developers who are interested in writing CV applications that run on mobile devices. Qualcomm Computer Vision is specifically designed to run efficiently on Android mobile devices, but it is anticipated that subsequent versions of Qualcomm Computer Vision will support mobile devices running on iOS and WinPhone operating systems.  

The Qualcomm Computer Vision library will be released as a unified binary. This unified binary file has a single API, but contains two implementations. The first implementation is designed to run efficiently on any ARM processor, and is named ‘Qualcomm Computer Vision for ARM.’ The second Qualcomm Computer Vision implementation runs only on Qualcomm SoC’s and is called ‘Qualcomm Computer Vision for Snapdragon.’ ‘Qualcomm Computer Vision for Snapdragon’ has the same API as ‘Qualcomm Computer Vision for ARM,’ but it provides hardware accelerated implementations of the CV functions included in the library.

Please feel free to download the Qualcomm Computer Vision SDK.

Document Overview

The purpose of this document is to help a developer get started evaluating our Qualcomm Computer Vision Library. Download a copy of the Qualcomm Computer Vision SDK.

Step 1: Settting up the Developer Environment:

  • Explain how to configure a development environment so that the Qualcomm Computer Vision Sample Application can be tried out.

Step 2: Install the Qualcomm Computer Vision SDK

  • Explain how to install the Qualcomm Computer Vision SDK

Step3: Compile and running a Qualcomm Computer Vision sample application

  • Compilation and installation instructions for our Android Fast Corner Detection Sample Application that utilizes our Qualcomm Computer Vision library.

Snapdragon and Qualcomm Computer Vision are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.