Introducing Scalismo

Scalismo is a library for statistical shape modeling and model-based image analysis in Scala, developed by the Graphics and Vision Research Group at the University of Basel. Vision. It aims to provide an environment for modelling and image analysis which makes it easy and fun to try out ideas. In particular, it provides great emphasis on visualization, which we believe is important for exploring shape models. Thanks to the programming language Scala, it becomes possible to scale a research prototype into a full-scale industrial applications.

The theoretical basis of scalismo are the two core concepts:

• Gaussian processes for modelling shape variations
• Markov chain monte carlo methods for model fitting

Installation and getting started​

To use Scalismo, you will need to set up a development environment. How to do this is described in the Scalismo tutorials, which you find on the Scalismo website.

Once you have Scalismo up and running, we recommend that you run through the first Tutorial Hello Scalismo in order to get an impression, what Scalismo can do for you and how you would develop code using Scalismo.