OpenCV is an open source computer vision library developed by Intel. The library is cross-platform, and runs on both Windows and Linux. It focuses mainly towards real-time image processing. The application areas include

• Human-Computer Interface (HCI)
• Object Identification
• Segmentation and Recognition
• Face Recognition
• Gesture Recognition
• Motion Tracking
• Ego-motion
• Motion Understanding
• Structure From Motion (SFM)
• Mobile Robotics

Successful applications

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• OpenCV was of key use in the vision system of Stanley, the winning entry to the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge race.

Windows prerequisites

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The DirectShow SDK is required to build some camera input-related parts of OpenCV on Windows. This SDK is found in the Samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\BaseClasses subdirectory of the Microsoft Platform SDK, which must be built prior to the building of OpenCV.

External links

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• OpenCV homepage
• Opencv Documentation Wiki
• OpenCV SourceForge site
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Computer vision software

OpenCV