There is little more overwhelming than the blank page of a new image processing project. Looking at the white canvas of OpenCV can be tricky, even with a plan in mind. This will be a tool to ease initializing a project and aid in exploring and tweaking image processing solutions in a slick, persistent GUI setting.

View:

• Live view
• Toggle to raw view (unprocessed); side-by-side?
• Intermediate image views assignable (pack the images in and organize together)
• Pan, Zoom available and controllable with mouse, keyboard, finger

Editor:

• All opencv methods available
• Useful or regular usage items assigned shortcut names
• Certain useful functions aliased for quick use (resize, to black and white, save to file)
• Can use unix -x or list args in order
• Can take video or image sources as input
• Syntax errors are noted on a line and ignored (rest of script unaffected)
• Variable assignment (save this output for use later by name)
  • Indexable for multi-output methods?
  • Raw image is auto assigned a variable like %RAW% or similar
• Show line numbers
• Swap lines, duplicate lines, delete, cut/paste whole lines from keyboard shortcuts

Help / Learn:

• Searchable knowledge base of methods and syntax
• Show info about active command in the editor
• Browseable compendium of all opencv commands with description, args, and shortcuts (if applicable)

Factory / Filter / Modifier:

• Group all objects together in a folder
• File per modifier (opencv command)
• Object handles syntax, argument distribution, inputs/outputs
• Object handles code generation
• Need a destruct for when it is removed (e.g. stop video capture)

Export

• Code generation on demand (Python)