Company

Contribution

Intel

OpenCV origination, years of programming support

Google

Image wrapper class cvwimage

Willow Garage

Supporting current core programming team

Phase Space

Bundle adjustment

Name

Company (by the moment of contribution)

Remarks

Abrosimov, Dmitry

Intel Corp.

Optimization, Eigen objects

Alekseev, Aleksey

Intel Corp.

IppCV testing

Asbach, Mark

RWTH Aachen University

New-style Linux makefiles, SWIG wrappers, Mac OS X porting

Baksheev, Anatoly

Itseez

GPU module, CMake support for OpenCV, Spin Images

Benoit, Alexandre

LISTIC lab

Retina model

Blanco, Jose Luis

Universidad de Malaga, Spain

CMake support for OpenCV; added cvLinearPolar, multiple bug reports and misc. patches

Boldyrev, Sergey

Intel Corp.

rpm spec & linux makefiles

Bornet, Olivier

IDIAP Research Institute

New-style Linux makefiles, SWIG & specialized Python wrappers

Bouguet, Jean-Yves

Intel Corp.

Algorithms for Camera calibration, calibration toolbox for MATLAB, LK in pyramids ...

Bovyrin, Alexander

Intel Corp.

Contours, Stereo, Improvements in object detection, blobtrack/vs module in cvaux

Bowman, James

Willow Garage Inc.

Latex-based OpenCV documentation, the new-style Python wrappers opencvpython, a lot of QA work.

Bradski, Gary

Intel Corp., Willow Garage Inc.

Idea and Vision, Leading, Promotion, the OpenCV book. Also, CAMSHIFT & MHI algorithms, Codebook background/foreground subtraction etc.

Bradley, David

Princeton Univ.

Haar classifier for profile faces

Breen, Ed

???

EiC intepreter, used for Hawk

Burenkov, Denis

Moscow State Uni

Contour morphing, several demo scripts

Butko, Nicolas

???

HighGUI Cocoa Backend

Calonder, Michael

Germany

Calonder detector

Castrillon-Santana Modesto

IUSIANI, Spain

Haarcascades for facial feature detection

Cherepanova, Tatiana

Novosibirsk University

Face tracking

Cherepennikov, Valery

Intel Corp.

Optimization, matrices, estimators (Kalman, ConDensation) and more ...

Chudinovich, Boris

Intel Corp.

Ideas and algorithms on contours and comp. geometry functions

Cohen, Andre

???

HighGUI QTKit backend

Conbere, Morgan

???

Image I/O on MacOSX

Cowperthwaite, David

Intel Corp.

3d Tracker

Dadgostar, Farhad

???

Adaptive Skin Detector, Fuzzy MeanShift Tracker

Dalal, Navneet

Home Page

HoG

Davies, Bob

Intel Corp.

First OpenCV installation program, communications with user group, tech. advisor

Delacour, Xavier

PhaseSpace Inc.

Octave bindings, KD trees/BBF and LSH search, some Video I/O components for highgui

Devernay, Frederic

INRIA (?)

Multiple patches for OpenCV (cvcam, cxcore, cv, highgui).

Dimashova, Maria

Itseez

TrainCascade application, the new object detection class cv::CascadeClassifier, Extremely Random Trees in MLL, a lot of optimization and QA work on MLL and Features2D.

Don Murray

PointGrey

PointGrey SDK and patches for stereo gesture recognition code

Dubey, Premnath

???

Patch for cvcam (Windows version)

Eaton, Daniel

???

Texture descriptors code

Eruhimov, Victor

Intel Corp., Itseez

Hough & distance transforms, stereo, Hawk, HighGUI, One-way descriptor and more ...

Fabri, Stefano

Univ. of Rome

HighGUI gstreamer backend

Filip, Daniel

Google Inc.

cv::wImage* template image classes

Gaspard Breton

France Telecom

Support for multiple cameras (2,3,4) in SyncFilter and cvcam

Grachev, Ilya

Intel Corp.

TCL/TK demos (cvlkdemo, cvcsdemo, cvenv)

Gruebele, Philip

???

Multiple patches for OpenCV

Guhring, Philipp

???

Single-object mode in cvHaarDetectObjects

Hafeneger, Stefan

???

Some 3D & Calibration related functionality

Halsall, Chris

Open Source Solutions Inc

O-Reilly papers on OpenCV, calibration app for Linux, patches for Linux version

Hameed, Shameem

University of Michigan

Haar classifiers for eye detection

Hasler, Nils

Max Planck Institut

16-bit images support, Jasper and OpenEXR bindings in HighGUI

Jacobsen, Jostein

NTNU

Hartley/Sturm correction

Kamaev, Andrey

Itseez

Android Port Improvements & Optimization

Karasev, Peter

Georgia Tech

Helped with Android Port

Kertesz, Csaba

-

v4l2 interface, bugfixes at almost every area

Khamenya, Valery

BioVisioN AG

OpenCV CVS repository at SourceForge

Khudyakov, Vasily

Novosibirsk University

Face feature detection

Krivakin, Konstantin

???

TBB parallelization of ML

Kruppa, Hannes

ETH Zurich

Haar classifier for fullbody, lowerbody, upperbody detection.

Kuranov, Alexander

Intel Corp.

Matlab wrappers, face detection code, haartraining and related applications

Kuriakin, Valery

Intel Corp.

Started OpenCV project in Nizhny Novrogod Lab

Kosov, Sergey

MPI Informatik

Variational Stereo Correspondence Algorithm

Lienhart, Rainer

Intel Corp.

Haar feature-based face detection algorithm and the original code; Self-similarity features.

Liu Liu

???

SURF, Spill trees, MSERs

Lantz, Philip

Intel Corp.

3d Tracker

Lundin, Magnus

???

Patches and new functionality for Linux version of highgui

Lysenkov, Ilya

Itseez.

Circle grid detector. Bug fixes.

Mihelich, Patrick

Willow Garage

Innumerable patches

Molinov, Sergey

Intel Corp., Itseez

HMM face recognition code, POSIT, snakes, optical flow, improved face detection, stereo, bundle adjustment and more ...

Mordvitsev, Alexander

Saint-Petersburg Univ.

Python samples

Morozov, Andrey

Itseez

Buildbot, build scripts; multi-threaded FFMPEG support

Mosyagin, Valery

Intel Corp.

View morphing, camera calibration code v.1, fundamental matrix estimation

Muehlmann, Karsten

Lehrstuhl fur Informatik V

3D stereo correspondence algorithm (not included yet)

Muja, Marius

Willow Garage Inc.

FLANN bindings

Nefian, Ara

Intel Corp.

Algorithm for HMM face recognition

Oblomov, Sergey

Intel Corp.

Camshift and histogram code, linux scripts and makefiles, optimization and more ...

Pantofaru, Caroline

Willow Garage Inc.

Latex-based OpenCV documentation

Pele, Ofir

Hebrew U

Fast EMD, New Chi-Sqr histogram matching

Perreault, Simon

Universite Laval

O(1) Median filtering algorithm

Philomin, Vasanth

PHILIPS (?)

Several bug reports/fixes on face detection etc.

Pisarevsky, Vadim

Intel Corp., Itseez

OpenCV hacker

Pleskov, Alexander

Intel Corp.

Pyramidal segmentation, gesture recognition code, comp. geometry functions

Rabaud, Vincent

Video Surf

Homography to rotation conversion. Corner orientation, optmizations

Rodyushkin, Konstantin

Intel Corp.

applications OpenCV to 3dFace caused a few bug reports, functionality proposals, blobtrack/vs module in cvaux

Rosten, Edward

Univ. of Cambridge

FAST corner detector

Rublee, Ethan

Self

Android port, further development of FAST and BRIEF

Schaefer, Dirk

MD-Mathematische Dienste GmbH

original code for Bayer->RGB pattern conversion

Schiele, Bernt

ETH Zurich

Haar classifier for fullbody, lowerbody, upperbody detection.

Shavit, Adi

???

OpenCV forum moderation, OpenCV logo

Shevtsova, Irina

Moscow State Uni

EM, Bayesian classifier, Random Trees, CNN in Machine Learning module; SVM enhancements

Shishkov, Alexander

Itseez

Buildbot, build scripts

Shiqi Yu

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology

Haar cascades for eye detection. The author of the world-first book on OpenCV (in Chinese) and the translator to Chinese of the OReilly OpenCV book.

Sobolev, Andrey

Moscow State Uni

Contour skeletons and linear-contour model

Spizhevoy, Alexey

Itseez

Stitching application

Stanchak, Roman

Naval Research Lab

Multiple improvements in Highgui (GTK+), Python wrappers and the core functionality

Stavinzky, Jay

???

8u->8u L1 Distance transform.

Toderici, George

???

Floating-point bilateral filter

Veretennikov, Eugene

Intel Corp.

Testing, some comp. geometry functions

Vezhnevets, Vladimir

MSU Graphics and Media Lab

New algorithm for chessboard detection

Zajko, Marian

Ximea

Ximea cameras support

Zaguskin, Victor

Intel Corp.

cvcam, vmdemo in tcl/tk

Watson, Theodore

???

videoInput author

Wayne W. Cheng

SoftIntegration

Ch C/C++ intepreter, OpenCV Ch toolbox

Wood, Travis

???

Patches for highgui (video capturing in Linux)