Learning OpenCV

Acknowledgments

A long-term open source effort sees many people come and go, each contributing in different ways. The list of contributors to this library is far too long to list here, but see the …/opencv/docs/HTML/Contributors/doc_contributors.html file that ships with OpenCV.

Thanks for Help on OpenCV

Intel is where the library was born and deserves great thanks for supporting this project the whole way through. Open source needs a champion and enough development support in the beginning to achieve critical mass. Intel gave it both. There are not many other companies where one could have started and maintained such a project through good times and bad. Along the way, OpenCV helped give rise to—and now takes (optional) advantage of—Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives, which are hand-tuned assembly language routines in vision, signal processing, speech, linear algebra, and more. Thus the lives of a great commercial product and an open source product are intertwined.

Mark Holler, a research manager at Intel, allowed OpenCV to get started by knowingly turning a blind eye to the inordinate amount of time being spent on an unofficial project back in the library's earliest days. As divine reward, he now grows wine up in Napa's Mt. Veeder area. Stuart Taylor in the Performance Libraries group at Intel enabled OpenCV by letting us "borrow" part of his Russian software team. Richard Wirt was key to its continued growth and survival. As the first author took on management responsibility ...