OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open source library of programming functions developed by Intel. It is free for commercial and research use under the open source BSD license. The library is cross-platform, will run on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It focuses mainly towards real-time image processing routines and algorithms for software development.
To install OpenCV using the terminal on Ubuntu:
$ su - # apt-get update # apt-get install build-essential # apt-get install libavformat-dev # apt-get install x264 v4l-utils ffmpeg # apt-get install libcv2.3 libcvaux2.3 libhighgui2.3 python-opencv opencv-doc libcv-dev libcvaux-dev libhighgui-dev
OpenCV should be installed in /usr/local/ Installation Directory
You may also want to compile and view examples
$ cp -r /usr/share/doc/opencv-doc/examples . $ cd examples $ cd c $ sh build_all.sh
