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Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) is a feature detection algorithm used in many [tag:computer-vision] tasks, such as object recognition, 3D reconstruction, camera calibration, and [tag:cbir].

Asynchronous sockets allow for multiple simultaneous non-blocking socket connections.

In some frameworks there's a dedicated thread that exclusively manages all UI objects. It's the developer's responsibility to use this thread for UI updates (e.g. adding, updating and removing controls).

Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of freeware integrated development environments (IDE) developed by Microsoft that are lightweight versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio product line.

CoreOS provides a new server operating system for running thousands of servers themselves.

The HTML5 History API allows programmatic manipulation of the browser's history through JavaScript, providing a method of managing the user's history stack when creating web applications.

AVX2 (Advanced Vector Extensions 2) is an instruction set extension for x86. It adds 256bit versions of integer instructions (where AVX only provided 256b floating point).

NSubstitute is a .NET mocking framework. It creates substitutes of types for testing that can act as both mocks (can check calls were received) and stubs (can configure results for calls).

Google Cloud Bigtable is a fast, fully managed, massively scalable NoSQL database service designed for applications requiring terabytes to petabytes of data. Cloud Bigtable doesn't require you to sacrifice speed, scale, or cost efficiency when your applications grow.