Availability

The ViSP software is available under two different licenses: the ViSP GNU GPL version 2 for developing open source software under the terms of the GPL license, and the ViSP Commercial Developer License for commercial use. To know which license you need see FAQ 2.2.

If you download ViSP and find it useful for your work, we would appreciate you send us a short email (visp@irisa.fr) describing the application in which you are using it. Such correspondence is beneficial because we are curious to know how this software is being used. This also helps us to justify the effort to open ViSP to the community.

If you agree to be added to the list of ViSP users, please contact visp@irisa.fr.

An acknowledgment in any publication describing work that uses ViSP would be greatly appreciated (please quote the paper published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, december 2005.

Latest stable release: ViSP-2.6.1

This release is working under Linux, Windows and OS X systems.

Source distribution

Version	Release date	Files	Release notes	Related ressources
ViSP 2.6.1	October 20th, 2011	ViSP-2.6.1.tar.gz ViSP-2.6.1.zip	Changes	ViSP 2.6.1: Getting started Unix ViSP 2.6.1: Getting started Windows ViSP-images-2.6.1.zip (67.4 Mb) [how to use]

Information concerning ViSP building from source is provided here.

You can get the oldest stable releases here.

SDK binary distribution

Information concerning ViSP SDK installation is provided here.

Current development source distribution

ViSP is a public project in the Inria's forge http://gforge.inria.fr available from http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/visp page. You can download the source code by using Subversion client. Subversion also named SVN is a source code revision control system used by many participants in the open-source community.

Getting current development source distribution by anonymous access to the forge :

The source is accessed by checking out a read-only version of the ViSP source code. Under Unix systems, you can use the following command:

Getting current development source distribution by ssh access for registered members on Inria's forge :

The source is accessed by checking out a read/write version of the ViSP source code. But you need to be registered as a ViSP developer. For more details on the procedure to be registered see the FAQ 4.2.

If you are in the ViSP developer team and if you have setup your ssh access, you can get ViSP by:

In the previous svn commands you have to replace "username" by your real username corresponding to your new account on the forge.

Information concerning ViSP building from source is provided here.

ViSP data set download for examples and tests

Some examples and tests require data set (images, models). We provide here these data sets as compressed zip files. They are useful since ViSP-2.2.0.

Latest stable revision (2.6.1)

Previous stable revisions are available here.

How to use:

To uncompress a zip under Unix:

Note that it may be necessary to specify the path to your image directory. For that, you can either set the VISP_INPUT_IMAGE_PATH environment variable (recommended) or precise the location of ViSP-images through the program's -i command line option.

Depending on your shell, you can set VISP_INPUT_IMAGE_PATH by:

or by: