Glossary - PatrickPenguinTurtle/GRIPWiki GitHub Wiki

Here's some terms we use that might be helpful!

Operation:

A primitive operation in a computer vision algorithm, such as a threshold, Gaussian blur, or Canny edge detector. Operations also include utilities such as switching between multiple steps or filtering a list

Step:

An instance of an operation in a pipeline, which is associated with multiple sockets and connections.

Socket:

An input or output of a step. Inputs are referred to as input sockets, and outputs as output sockets. Each socket has an associated value.

Connection:

An association between an output socket and an input socket. When a connection exists, any change in the value of an output socket results in the the value of the input socket also changing to the same value.

Pipeline:

A series of steps and connections.