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Introduction
This library is intended for use, incorporation and modification by researchers, commercial software developers, government and camera vendors as reflected in the license.
See the Library Overview for a quick idea of what's in the library.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). Philosophy
Aid commercial uses of computer vision in human-computer interface, robotics, monitoring, biometrics and security by providing a free and open infrastructure where the distributed efforts of the vision community can be consolidated and performance optimized.
Web group
An online community organized around the Open Source Computer Vision Library has been created at yahoogroups.com ** for sharing information, bugs, opinions, questions and answers about the library. 
After getting a Yahoo ID, subscribe by sending email to .
Read News
Once you have subscribed, you can read news at http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/OpenCV **. Post Questions, Bugs, or Patches
Email to:
If your post is a bug report, please put �BUG� in the subject line.
Please join this group! If you don't want to be bothered by daily emails after you've joined, simply go to the newsgroup http://www.yahoogroups.com/mygroups ** and choose "No Mail/Web Only", or "Daily Digest" from the pull down list to the right of OpenCV. But stay subscribed because several times a year we will announce major new releases, call for submissions, polls on suggested new functions and workshops related to the library.
For the Image Processing Library, all support questions should go through:
http://support.intel.com/support/performancetools/support.htm (for release libraries)
https://premier.intel.com/scripts-quad/welcomeplsb.asp (for beta libraries)
How to Contribute Code or Algorithms
Your code, documentation and testing should conform as much as possible to our coding and documentation style guidelines. At an absolute minimum files should begin with a BSD-compatible license, whose template can be found in the Contributors_BSD_License.htm file.
Zip your code and documentation and email it to with subject "USER CONTRIBUTION". Acceptance decisions will be made by committee or user poll as appropriate. Download
Download files are available on Source Forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/ ** . Sample Press
Programmer's Tool Chest, The OpenCV Library Dr.Dobbs Journal (11/00) **
Vision Systems Design* magazine (7/7/00)
Alpha 3 release 6/14/00
Computer Vision Library Press Release
The Open Source License for the library describes use and redistribution rights for the library.
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