OpenCV

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Wikipedia: OpenCV

OpenCV is an open source computer vision library originally developed by Intel. It is free for commercial and research use under a BSD license. The library is cross-platform, and runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It focuses mainly on real-time image processing, as such, if it finds Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) on the system, it will use these commercial optimized routines to accelerate itself.

OpenCV's application areas include:

• Human-Computer Interface (HCI)
• Object Identification
• Segmentation and Recognition
• Face Recognition
• Gesture Recognition
• Motion Tracking
• ...

XO Laptop

Nirav Patel reports success in basic image recognition on the XO Laptop (with xo-cam) with good timings.

Sources: face.py haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml

Links

• OpenCV Documentation Wiki
• OpenCV SourceForge site
• OpenCV homepage at intel