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- Welcome to the Open Source Computer Vision Library. - - - - 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. - - - - 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. - - - - 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 - Structure of Scientific Revolutions, he - argues that progress in a given scientific field derives - from the acceptance of a common paradigm by which - members of the group can share and compare. 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. - - - - To involve and benefit from the combined expertise of - the vision community we have recruited a committee 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. - - - - We thank all the current - contributors - to the library and encourage others to join by - submitting code. - - - - The Release Notes - provide information about system requirements, directory - contents, installation notes, frequently asked - questions, support, and where to send bug reports and - suggestions. - - - - The Open Source License for the - library describes use and redistribution rights for - the library. - - |
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Open Source Computer Vision Library Committee
- Dr. Gary Bradski- Prof. Trevor Darrell
- Prof. Irfan Essa
- Prof. Jitendra Malik
- Prof. Pietro Perona
- Prof. Stan Sclaroff
- Prof. Carlo Tomasi
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