[Image-SIG] Some advice on a Filters Library?

[Dieter Vanderelst]

Hi,

I'm looking for a library of image filters to use in course assignment 
on computer vision.

I've considered the Filter Project 
(http://filters.sourceforge.net/index.htm) and the openCV project 
(http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/). But I found the 
first lacking in documentation and the second hard to install.

Does anybody has other suggestions about which filter library I could 
use with Python? Did anybody use the first two suggestions?

Or Maybe there is some computer vision application that I can access 
trough the command line, so that I can use Python to control it?

Any suggestions are very welcome,

Dieter