• Welcome

OpenCV

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a library of programming functions for real time computer vision.

• OpenCV is released under a BSD license, it is free for both academic and commercial use. It has C++, C, Python and soon Java interfaces running on Windows, Linux, Android and Mac. The library has >2500 optimized algorithms (see figure below). It is used around the world, has >2.5M downloads and >40K people in the user group. Uses range from interactive art, to mine inspection, stitching maps on the web on through advanced robotics.

• Sister Projects

  • Point Cloud Library (PCL) for 3D processing, Robot Operating System (ROS) -- OpenCV is integrated

Status

• The current release version is 2.3.1 (August 2011) (What's New).

• Other Announcements.

Documentation

• OpenCVBooks: Learning OpenCV; OpenCV 2 Cookbook. here.

• Online reference manual: Until we move it over, 2.3 documentation is here (all manuals are now in one).

  • 2.2 documentation is here: C++, C, Python and GPU.

• C++ Cheatsheet.pdf and Python Cookbook

Downloads

• You can download the release version (2.3.1) for Unix, Windows or Android.

• For the latest code, see the Install Guide.

Support

• See the User Group for questions, help, announcements.

• See the Full Wiki for user docs, camera and OS compatibility ...

• For Bugs: Report a bug, request new features, documentation issues.