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+Open Source Computer Vision Library
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+<h1>What is OpenCV</h1>
+
+<p>OpenCV means Open Source Computer Vision Library.
+It is a collection of C functions and a few C++ classes that implement
+many popular Image Processing and Computer Vision algorithms.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h1><a name="#ref">OpenCV Book</a></h1>
+
+The official book for OpenCV is published by O'Reilly Press
+Learning OpenCV Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
+by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler
+<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-OpenCV-Computer-Vision-Library/dp/0596516134">
+http://www.amazon.com/Learning-OpenCV-Computer-Vision-Library/dp/0596516134
+</a>
+
+<p>
+This book is:
+<ol>
+<li>A tutorial on computer vision in general
+<li>A user's guide to OpenCV
+<li>A source of useful working sample code and detailed function descriptions.
+</ol>
+
+<hr>
+
+<h1>The key features</h1>
+
+<p>OpenCV provides cross-platform middle-to-high level API that includes
+ about 300 functions and a few C++ classes. Also there are
+ constantly improving Python bindings to OpenCV, see
+ interfaces/swig/python and samples/python.
+ OpenCV has no strict dependencies on external libraries,
+ though it can use some (such as libjpeg, ffmpeg, GTK+ etc.)
+ when it is possible.</p>
+
+<p>OpenCV is free for both non-commercial and commercial use
+(see the <a href="license.txt">license</a> for details).</p>
+
+<p><a name="#ipp">OpenCV can be built with Intel® Integrated Performance
+Primitives (IPP).</a>
+This makes it fast on all the architectures supported by the library,
+where the optimal code for each host architecture is chosen at runtime.
+
+More information about IPP can be retrieved at
+<a href="http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/index.htm">
+http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/index.htm</a></p>
+
+Then, OpenCV itself can be built with OpenMP support, and, starting with v2.0,
+OpenCV includes SSE2-optimized code, so many of the functions run significantly
+faster on the modern 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x64 platforms, and even faster on dual-,
+quad- and many-core systems.
+
+<hr>
+
+<h1>Who created it</h1>
+The list of authors and major contributors can be found at
+<a href="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/Contributors">http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/Contributors</a>.</p>
+<hr>
+
+<h1>What's New</h1>
+<p>See the <a href="ChangeLog.htm">ChangeLog</a>.
+<hr>
+
+<h1>Where to get OpenCV</h1>
+<p>Go <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary</a>.
+If it does not work, type "OpenCV" in
+<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=opencv+computer+vision&btnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA&lr=">Google (http://www.google.com)</a>.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h1>How to build it</h1>
+<p>See the installation guide: <a href="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/InstallGuide">http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/InstallGuide</a>.
+
+<hr>
+
+<h1><a name="troubleshooting">If you have a problem with installing/running/using OpenCV</a></h1>
+
+<ol>
+<li>Visit OpenCV Wiki-pages at
+<a href="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/">http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/</a> and
+look for the information there (and/or add it when you have found a solution)
+<li>Search through OpenCV archives at www.yahoogroups.com
+(<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OpenCV/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OpenCV/</a>)
+<li>Join OpenCV mailing list at yahoo groups (see FAQs on how to do it) and mail your questions
+ (the mailing list will probably migrate to
+ <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary">OpenCV's SourceForge site</a>)
+<li>Look at the OpenCV sample code, read the reference manual (<a href="opencv.pdf">offline in PDF</a>
+ or <a href="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/index.html">online</a>)
+</ol>
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