OpenCV is the leading open source library for computer vision, image processing and machine learning, and now features GPU acceleration for real-time operation.
OpenCV is released under a BSD license and hence it’s free for both academic and commercial use. It has C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Adopted all around the world, OpenCV has more than 47 thousand people of user community and estimated number of downloads exceeding 6 million. Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics.
OpenCV is being used for a very wide range of applications which include:
Over 250 functions have been ported to use CUDA delivering 5x to 100x speed up. Find out more about these on the GPU acceleration project home page.