OpenCV 4.5.3 and 3.4.15 have been released!
Release highlights
- Added support for multiple highgui backends
- Implemented HW-accelerated decoding and encoding using FFmpeg
- DaSiamRPN tracker is implemented as OpenCV algorithm
- Supported OpenVINO 2021.4 release in dnn module
- G-API module: improved Python bindings and DL inference capabilities, added instrumentation support
- 1D Barcode support
More details can be found in the Changelog.
Most of bugfixes and improvements have made their way to both 3.4 and master branches.
Contributors
Big thanks to everybody who contributed (here is the incomplete list of patch authors; please report if you contributed but do not see your name here):
opencv
Alexander Alekhin, Giles Payne, Anatoliy Talamanov, Smirnov Egor, Maxim Pashchenkov, Dmitry Budnikov, Maksim Shabunin, berak, Danny, Ian Maquignaz, Tiago De Gaspari, APrigarina, Alexander Smorkalov, Alexey Smirnov, Anna Prigarina, Dale Phurrough, Developer-Ecosystem-Engineering, Francesco Petrogalli, Joe Howse, Kai Stüdemann, SamFC10, Sergey Ivanov, Suleyman TURKMEN, Vincent Rabaud, danielenricocahall, rogday, 103yiran, Aaron Greig, Aleksandr Voron, Alex Kalmuk, Anastasiya Pronina, Andreas Franek, Andrei Costinescu, Antonio Rojas, CSBVision, Christoph Rackwitz, David Geldreich, Dmitry Matveev, Florian Berchtold, Guillaume Jacob, HAN Liutong, Harald Scheirich, HattrickGenerator, Ilya Lavrenov, Jake Staahl, Jason, JoeHowse, Jonathan Deakin, Lukas-Alexander Weber, Maksym Ivashechkin, Mary Strodl, Mikhail Nikolskii, Nathan Hartman, Nikolay Polyarniy, Paul Jurczak, Pinaev Danil, Quella Zhang (Beyondsoft Corporation), Rafael H Tibães, Stefano Allegretti, Vladimir, Xinguang Bian, YashasSamaga, Zhuo Zhang, catree, changh95, damonyu1989, deniz.aksayli, hyrodium, jiangjiajun, jogo-, kikaxa, micha137, mitruska, thezane, xzvno, yo1990
opencv_contrib
Alexander Alekhin, Suleyman TURKMEN, DumDereDum, Ivar Clemens, Pavel Rojtberg, Smirnov Egor, Vincent Rabaud, berak, Aleksandr Patsekin, Archit Rungta, Artem Saratovtsev, David Forrest, Frank Dana, Junhao Liang, Killer_Quinn, TT, channings, pathbreak, scloke, shimat
Download OpenCV 4.5.3
Win pack with dnn module accelerated by Inference Engine (DLDT) (for AVX2 platforms)
