Packages such as Spotify’s Annoy for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search have direct applications in the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR)/image search engine space. And while this post isn’t entirely dedicated to computer vision, it is still very relevant if you are developing computer vision based applications using Python and OpenCV. And if you are on an OSX machine and aren’t using Homebrew, then I suggest you stop reading this post and install it right now.Īnyway, like I said, I hope that this post saves other people some time and hassle. The amount of time I have wasted over the past few months (passively) trying to get boost and boost-python to install on my OSX machine via Homebrew has been nothing short of excruciating.ĭon’t get me wrong, I love Homebrew. I really, really hope that someone finds this resource useful. Click here to download the source code to this post
