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10 Intel® Open Source Computer Vision Library
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20 <h1>What is OpenCV</h1>
22 <p>OpenCV means Intel® Open Source Computer Vision Library.
23 It is a collection of C functions and a few C++ classes that implement
24 many popular Image Processing and Computer Vision algorithms.</p>
28 <h1>The key features</h1>
30 <p>OpenCV provides cross-platform middle-to-high level API that includes
31 about 300 C functions and a few C++ classes. Also there are
32 constantly improving Python bindings to OpenCV, see
33 interfaces/swig/python and samples/python.
34 OpenCV has no strict dependencies on external libraries,
35 though it can use some (such as libjpeg, ffmpeg, GTK+ etc.)
36 when it is possible.</p>
38 <p>OpenCV is free for both non-commercial and commercial use
39 (see the <a href="license.txt">license</a> for details).</p>
41 <p><a name="#ipp">OpenCV provides transparent interface to Intel® Integrated Performance
43 That is, it loads automatically IPP libraries optimized
44 for specific processor at runtime, if they are available.
45 More information about IPP can be retrieved at
46 <a href="http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/index.htm">
47 http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/index.htm</a></p>
51 <h1>Who created it</h1>
52 <p>The list of authors and major contributors can be found in the file <a href="..\THANKS">THANKS</a>.</p>
56 <p>See the <a href="..\ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>.
59 <h1>Where to get OpenCV</h1>
60 <p>Go <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary</a>.
61 If it does not work, type "OpenCV" in
62 <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>
65 <h1><a name="troubleshooting">If you have a problem with installing/running/using OpenCV</a></h1>
68 <li>Visit OpenCV Wiki-pages at
69 <a href="http://opencvlibrary.sourceforge.net">http://opencvlibrary.sourceforge.net</a> and
70 look for the information there (and/or add it when you have found a solution)
71 <li>Read <a href="faq.htm">FAQs</a>
72 <li>Search through OpenCV archives at www.yahoogroups.com
73 (<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OpenCV/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OpenCV/</a>)
74 <li>Join OpenCV mailing list at yahoo groups (see FAQs on how to do it) and mail your questions
75 (the mailing list will probably migrate to
76 <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary">OpenCV's SourceForge site</a>)
77 <li>Look at the OpenCV sample code, read the reference manual :)
82 <h1><a name="#ref">OpenCV Reference Manuals</a></h1>
85 <li><a href="ref/opencvref_cxcore.htm">CXCORE Reference Manual</a>
86 <li><a href="ref/opencvref_cv.htm">CV Reference Manual</a>
87 <li><a href="ref/opencvref_ml.htm">Machine Learning Reference Manual</a>
88 <li><a href="ref/opencvref_highgui.htm">HighGUI Reference Manual</a>
89 <li><a href="cvcam.rtf">CVCAM Reference Manual (RTF)</a>
92 <p>You may also look at the <a href="opencvman_old.pdf">PDF manual</a>, but do not trust it much -
93 it is pretty out of date, especially, the reference part.</p>