This book is great for developers, hobbyists, and students new to computer vision who are looking to get a good grounding in how to use the OpenCV library. It’s assumed that you will have some basic experience in C/C++ programming.
Free intro to GPU-accelerated Computer Vision with OpenCV!
Learn about the hundreds of CUDA accelerated algorithms in the free OpenCV library, how to use it, and why the future of OpenCV is in the GPU, from this 1 hour presentation.
New video course: OpenCV Computer Vision Application Programming
If you are a novice or expert C++ programmer who wants to learn how to use the OpenCV library to develop computer vision applications in ways such as augmented reality, robotics, surveillance, computational photography, object detection or identification then this course is for you.
“OpenCV: Computer Vision with Python”
The first book about OpenCV Python interface is now for sale from Packt Publishing with free shipping to many countries!
OpenCV 2.4.5 is out!
If you completed with your April Fool jokes, it’s a good time to meet OpenCV 2.4.5 that OpenCV Development Team prepared for you!
Image Debugger Plug-in for Visual Studio
Microsoft just released Image Watch, a free Visual Studio extension for viewing in-memory images during debugging. Supports OpenCV image types!
OpenCV 2.4.4 is out!
On the first day of Spring the OpenCV Development Team released OpenCV 2.4.4. Big thanks to all contributors who made pull requests on GitHub, sent bug reports and helped us in any other way!
OpenCV now supports desktop Java
As of OpenCV 2.4.4, OpenCV supports desktop Java development using nearly the same interface as for Android development.
OpenCV 2.4.4 is under way!
We prepared the beta version of OpenCV 2.4.4 for you. Welcome to try out the latest and greatest OpenCV and please report any problems, while we are still in the bug fixing mode.
New OpenCV book
The “Mastering OpenCV with Practical Computer Vision Projects” book is done and published!
Pull requests are now automatically tested
Those of you who contribute the code in the form of GitHub pull requests can now see results of automatic testing! There is a page showing the validation results on three major operating systems, and more to come.
OpenCV 2.4.3 released
OpenCV 2.4.3 is finally out. It should be the most mature OpenCV to the moment. Big thanks to everybody who sent us the bug reports, contributed new functionality and patches and helped us in any other way! You are welcome to try out the latest and greatest OpenCV!