Configuration

In many computer software systems, system configuration is essentially an afterthought. Frequently, a few “.ini” or “.yaml” files are created that carry a some key configuration settings and that’s the end of it. In contrast to this, the configuration of a computer vision system is frequently a first order component of the system’s working technology. Computer vision algorithms tend to be highly configurable, exposing many different execution parameters and, perhaps more importantly, are very tunable for different operating conditions, performance profiles, and operational characteristics.

To facilitate this, KWIVER provides a hierarchical configuration system including a flexible configuration language that is used for virtually all aspects of KWIVER’s operation. The following sections will detail how to use KWIVER’s config_block architecture and the configuration language used to create and manipualte config_blocks.