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.
- Example applications of the OpenCV library are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Object Identification, Segmentation and Recognition; Face Recognition; Gesture Recognition; Camera and Motion Tracking, Ego Motion, Motion Understanding; Structure From Motion (SFM); Stereo and Multi-Camera Calibration and Depth Computation; Mobile Robotics.
Status
The current release version is 2.0 (Sept. 30th 2009).
Other Announcements.
Documentation
The OpenCV book is Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
The complete online reference manual for OpenCV: C++, C and Python.
Downloads
You can download the release version (2.0) for Linux or Windows
Or you can get the latest version from SVN, and build it for your platform.
Support
Send your question to the OpenCV User Group.
Submit bugs to the OpenCV bug tracker.
The OpenCV Wiki is the OpenCV community's wiki.