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computer vision software and models

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

horizontal · 131 members · Data as of 2026-10-14

Products in this niche process, analyze, and extract actionable insights from images, live video streams, and spatial sensor feeds. They are typically adopted by machine learning engineers, robotics teams, and enterprise developers automating visual workflows across industries like manufacturing, aerospace, and healthcare. Unlike generic analytics platforms or broad multimodal tools, these offerings focus specifically on specialized visual perception, object detection, and automated spatial reasoning.

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Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
VisionHOPE GITHUB 400 2026-09-27
Eyeball HN 295 2026-06-02
Midjourney Scanner PH 284 2026-06-19
Allus AI — Vision Foundation Model for Manufacturing YC 282 2025-11-10
AxionOrbital Space : SOTA Foundation Models for 24/7 Earth Observation YC 230 2026-01-06
JEV_sees GITHUB 225 2026-09-30
Efference - Helping robots see like humans do YC 122 2025-11-04
Viso Now PH 103 2026-09-10
Tame_3D GITHUB 94 2026-09-28
fly_ocr GITHUB 82 2026-09-13
MoSE3 GITHUB 79 2026-10-05
Mira-Scene GITHUB 78 2026-09-20
Protent: Real-time video intelligence for public safety YC 77 2026-02-26
iris-3b GITHUB 74 2026-10-05
Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU HN 72 2026-06-14
DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency HN 72 2026-01-08
TridentVision GITHUB 71 2026-09-09
GenIA GITHUB 67 2026-10-08
CV_Deployment_skill GITHUB 63 2026-09-29
SmartCheck PH 57 2026-09-18
FleXray GITHUB 57 2026-09-22
tennis-cv GITHUB 57 2026-09-10
PolyOCR-Venus GITHUB 56 2026-10-10
DMAD GITHUB 55 2026-09-29
Xiaomi-OCR-0 GITHUB 54 2026-09-28
Satellite imagery object detection using text prompts HN 53 2026-03-09
indra GITHUB 51 2026-10-13
VGGT-Diff GITHUB 49 2026-09-27
laya-opencv GITHUB 48 2026-10-05
I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV HN 43 2026-02-11
sam3d.cpp GITHUB 41 2026-09-10
I run a vision model on every screenshot, locally, on a 4GB GPU HN 36 2026-06-13
TETrack3D GITHUB 36 2026-09-26
OpenJev-Vision GITHUB 35 2026-09-19
egodup GITHUB 35 2026-09-14
poincar3 GITHUB 34 2026-09-28
clef-webcam GITHUB 30 2026-10-01
gem-x.cpp GITHUB 29 2026-09-21
sizeless - Spatial AI for underground infrastructure 🚧 YC 29 2026-09-10
dual_lidar_constraint_fusion GITHUB 25 2026-10-07
HoneyComb GITHUB 23 2026-09-29
vksr GITHUB 22 2026-09-19
visionflow-studio GITHUB 22 2026-10-07
Detect any object in satellite imagery using a text prompt HN 22 2026-03-08
Exo2Ego GITHUB 21 2026-09-21
defect-mark GITHUB 21 2026-09-20
reshot GITHUB 21 2026-09-11
GXV-CISD-Model GITHUB 21 2026-09-29
Lumius — The 3D Camera for the Body YC 21 2026-05-08
expo-face-vision GITHUB 19 2026-09-19