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- Welcome to the Open Source Computer Vision Library.<br>
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- <br>
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- Gigahertz microprocessors, falling camera prices and ten
- times more video capture bandwidth from USB2 are
- providing new opportunities to apply computer vision
- anywhere you might find a PC. Real time gestural
- control around your home PC is now conceivable.
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- <br><br>
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- The Visual Interactivity Group in Intel's Microprocessor
- Research Lab initiated the development of this library 2
- years ago and has made two alpha releases of this code
- prior to this first Open Source release. Our goal is to
- establish an open source vision community and provide a
- site where the distributed efforts of the community can
- be consolidated and performance optimized. The library
- is intended for use by researchers and commercial
- software developers.
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- <br><br>
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- Computer vision research is filled with many competing
- groups and ideas with no unifying theory of vision,
- typifying Thomas Kuhn's definition of a
- "pre-paradigmatic science". In Kuhn's
- <i><u>Structure of Scientific Revolutions</u></i>, he
- argues that progress in a given scientific field derives
- from the acceptance of a common paradigm by which
- members of the group can <i>share and compare</i>. We
- cannot offer here that unifying theory of vision by
- which the field will cohere, but we can offer the
- community a central infrastructure by which we can share
- and compare. This is the driving research philosophy of
- this library, and by this we hope at least technical, if
- not scientific progress can be made.
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- <br><Br>
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- To involve and benefit from the combined expertise of
- the vision community we have recruited a <a
- href="#committee">committee</a> of experts to
- participate in acceptance decisions for new content for
- the library and in setting the library direction in
- general. Intel's contribution is to provide its own
- research contributions, host the library on a website,
- and contribute assembly language optimized versions of
- the most compute intensive code.
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- <br><br>
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- We thank all the current
- <a href="Contributors\doc_contributors.html">contributors</a>
- to the library and encourage others to join by
- submitting code.
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- <Br><BR>
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- The <a href="release_notes.htm">Release Notes</a>
- provide information about system requirements, directory
- contents, installation notes, frequently asked
- questions, support, and where to send bug reports and
- suggestions.
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- <br><BR>
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- The <a href="../license.txt">Open Source License</a> for the
- library describes use and redistribution rights for
- the library.
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- These are the general function areas currently
- supported in the library. Clicking on a function
- area will bring up another browser window that
- discuses each area in more detail.
-<br><br>
- <a href="../OpenCV%20Reference%20Manual.pdf">Click here</a>
- for full function documentation in PDF format.
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- We have included sample applications (and source
- code!) that use the library. Clicking on an
- application will open another browser window
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- <h1><a name="committee"></a>Open Source Computer Vision Library Committee</h1>
- <b>Dr. Gary Bradski</b><br>
- <b>Prof. Trevor Darrell</b><br>
- <b>Prof. Irfan Essa</b><br>
- <b>Prof. Jitendra Malik</b><br>
- <b>Prof. Pietro Perona</b><br>
- <b>Prof. Stan Sclaroff</b><br>
- <b>Prof. Carlo Tomasi</b><br>
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