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COCOLIB is a library for convex continuous optimization,
focusing on the minimization of functionals of the type

E(u) = J(u) + F(u)

where u is an image (i.e. vector-valued function on an interval),
J is a convex and closed regularizer, and F a convex and closed
data term (e.g. inverse problems, inpainting, segmentation ...).


COCOLIB is hosted on SourceForge. Check the homepage for the most
recent version and documentation:

https://sourceforge.net/p/cocolib/

Offline documentation is available in "./docs".


In this directory, you find the example command line tool to solve
selected image processing problems. Building it using

> qmake examples.pro
> make

will create the executable file "coco_ip".


IMPORTANT LICENSE INFORMATION:
This distribution of the cocolib examples contains free 3rd party code in order to
perform comparisons and reproduce experiments in papers. If you plan
to use this comparison code, you need to comply with the original licenses,
found in the "3rdparty" subdirectory.



TO THE REST OF THE CODE, THE FOLLOWING LICENSE APPLIES.

**  Copyright (C) 2011 Bastian Goldluecke

**  COCOLIB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
**  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
**  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
**  (at your option) any later version.
    
**  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
**  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
**  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
**  GNU General Public License for more details.
   
**  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
**  along with this program in the file "LICENSE".
**  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.