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.

Documentation – OpenCV Wiki-pages. Documentation has now moved to user editable web pages at: http://opencvlibrary.sourceforge.net

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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 (for beta libraries)

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 license.htm file.

Zip your code and documentation and e-mail it to Vadim.Pisarevsky at intel.com with subject "USER CONTRIBUTION". Acceptance decisions will be made by committee or user poll as appropriate.

Download files are available on Source Forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/.

Programmer's Tool Chest, The OpenCV Library Dr.Dobbs Journal (11/00)

The Open Source License for the library describes use and redistribution rights for the library.