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22 Welcome to the Open Source Computer Vision Library.<br>
26 Gigahertz microprocessors, falling camera prices and ten
27 times more video capture bandwidth from USB2 are
28 providing new opportunities to apply computer vision
29 anywhere you might find a PC. Real time gestural
30 control around your home PC is now conceivable.
34 The Visual Interactivity Group in Intel's Microprocessor
35 Research Lab initiated the development of this library 2
36 years ago and has made two alpha releases of this code
37 prior to this first Open Source release. Our goal is to
38 establish an open source vision community and provide a
39 site where the distributed efforts of the community can
40 be consolidated and performance optimized. The library
41 is intended for use by researchers and commercial
46 Computer vision research is filled with many competing
47 groups and ideas with no unifying theory of vision,
48 typifying Thomas Kuhn's definition of a
49 "pre-paradigmatic science". In Kuhn's
50 <i><u>Structure of Scientific Revolutions</u></i>, he
51 argues that progress in a given scientific field derives
52 from the acceptance of a common paradigm by which
53 members of the group can <i>share and compare</i>. We
54 cannot offer here that unifying theory of vision by
55 which the field will cohere, but we can offer the
56 community a central infrastructure by which we can share
57 and compare. This is the driving research philosophy of
58 this library, and by this we hope at least technical, if
59 not scientific progress can be made.
63 To involve and benefit from the combined expertise of
64 the vision community we have recruited a <a
65 href="#committee">committee</a> of experts to
66 participate in acceptance decisions for new content for
67 the library and in setting the library direction in
68 general. Intel's contribution is to provide its own
69 research contributions, host the library on a website,
70 and contribute assembly language optimized versions of
71 the most compute intensive code.
75 We thank all the current
76 <a href="Contributors\doc_contributors.html">contributors</a>
77 to the library and encourage others to join by
82 The <a href="release_notes.htm">Release Notes</a>
83 provide information about system requirements, directory
84 contents, installation notes, frequently asked
85 questions, support, and where to send bug reports and
90 The <a href="../license.txt">Open Source License</a> for the
91 library describes use and redistribution rights for
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106 <CENTER><FONT SIZE=+3>Function Areas</FONT></CENTER>
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116 <CENTER><FONT SIZE=+3>Application Areas</FONT></CENTER>
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129 These are the general function areas currently
130 supported in the library. Clicking on a function
131 area will bring up another browser window that
132 discuses each area in more detail.
134 <a href="../OpenCV%20Reference%20Manual.pdf">Click here</a>
135 for full function documentation in PDF format.
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144 <TD><IMG SRC="ball.gif" HSPACE=10 width="14" height="14" > <FONT SIZE=+2>Geometric
149 <TD><IMG SRC="ball.gif" HSPACE=10 width="14" height="14" > <FONT SIZE=+2>Recognition</FONT></TD>
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202 We have included sample applications (and source
203 code!) that use the library. Clicking on an
204 application will open another browser window
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315 <h1><a name="committee"></a>Open Source Computer Vision Library Committee</h1>
316 <b>Dr. Gary Bradski</b><br>
317 <b>Prof. Trevor Darrell</b><br>
318 <b>Prof. Irfan Essa</b><br>
319 <b>Prof. Jitendra Malik</b><br>
320 <b>Prof. Pietro Perona</b><br>
321 <b>Prof. Stan Sclaroff</b><br>
322 <b>Prof. Carlo Tomasi</b><br>
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