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h1. OpenCV Contributors

If you noticed that some names are missing, please mail to a [email protected]

h2. Original OpenCV committee (vision, functionality proposals etc.):

 |  *Title*  | *Name*  | *Current Position* |

 |  Prof.        |  Gary Bradski     |  Stanford University, Willow Garage |

 |  Prof.        |  Trevor Darrell   |  UC Berkeley |

 |  Prof.        |  Irfan Essa       |  Georgia Institute of Technology|

 |  Prof.        |  Jitendra Malik   |  UC Berkeley|

 |  Prof.        |  Pietro Perona    |  Caltech|

 |  Prof.        |  Stan Sclaroff    |  Boston University|

 |  Prof.        |  Carlo Tomasi     |  Duke University|

h2. Corporate Contributors

| *Company* | *Contribution* |

|  "Intel":http://www.Intel.com | OpenCV origination,  years of programming support |

|  "NVIDIA":http://www.nvidia.com | Supporting Android, Embedded Linux, WinRT and CUDA ports |

|  "Itseez":http://www.itseez.com | Supporting current core programming team|

|  "Willow Garage":http://www.willowgarage.com | Supported core programming team for 5 years|

|  "Google":http://www.google.com |  Image wrapper class cvwimage |

|  "Phase Space":http://www.phasespace.com/ | Bundle adjustment |

h2. Individual Contributors

h3. Git log after the "atomic bomb" commit

Status of the @'master'@ branch in July 2013. 

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  1283	Andrey Kamaev

  1154	Vadim Pisarevsky

   775	Vladislav Vinogradov

   509	Alexey Spizhevoy

   398	Maria Dimashova

   359	marina.kolpakova

   315	Alexander Smorkalov

   292	Andrey Pavlenko

   239	Anatoly Baksheev

   229	Alexander Shishkov

   169	Ilya Lysenkov

   150	yao

   139	Kirill Kornyakov

   138	Alexander Mordvintsev

   129	Gary Bradski

   124	Marina Kolpakova

    99	Andrey Morozov

    94	Ethan Rublee

    81	Alexander Reshetnikov

    78	peng xiao

    72	Ana Huaman

    71	Yannick Verdie

    61	Leonid Beynenson

    51	Ilya Lavrenov

    49	Roman Donchenko

    47	Elena Fedotova

    41	Alexandre Benoit

    40	Vincent Rabaud

    39	Daniil Osokin

    39	Victor Erukhimov

    39	James Bowman

    33	alexandre benoit

    32	Philipp Wagner

    29	Vsevolod Glumov

    27	Marius Muja

    27	Bernat Gabor

    23	Vladimir Dudnik

    21	Ivan Korolev

    19	Stefano Fabri

    18	itsyplen

    16	Anna Kogan

    15	Alexander Mordvintesv

    15	Alexander Kapustin

    14	Jason Newton

    14	Evgeny Talanin

    13	Anton Obukhov

    13	Andy Maloney

    13	Peng Xiao

    12	LeonidBeynenson

    11	niko

    10	Suenghoon Park

    10	Yury Zemlyanskiy

    10	Alexey Kazakov

     9	OpenCV Buildbot

     9	AoD314

     8	Oleg Sklyarov

     7	Nils Hasler

     7	Eric Christiansen

     7	alegarda

     6	Sergei Nosov

     6	abidrahmank

     6	Bo Li

     6	Jose Luis Blanco

     5	alex77git

     5	P. Druzhkov

     5	kobigurk

     5	Patrick Mihelich

     5	Dominik Rose

     5	Dirk Van Haerenborgh

     5	berak

     5	alexey.spizhevoy

     5	Kevin Hughes

     5	Gurpinder Singh Sandhu

     5	Alexey Polovinkin

     4	Alexander

     4	Victor Passichenko

     4	Sam Bromley

     4	Brian Gerkey

     4	Sergiu Dotenco

     4	Leszek Swirski

     4	salmanulhaq

     4	Gabe Schwartz

     3	gpsinghsandhu

     3	Artem Myagkov

     3	kencoken

     3	NikoKJ

     3	Oscar Deniz Suarez

     3	Valentina Kustikova

     3	Artanis

     3	Patrick Welche

     3	Evgeniy Kozinov

     3	poiuytrez

     3	Victoria Zhislina

     3	Markus Schoeler

     3	bitwangyaoyao

     3	Filipe Almeida

     2	Ryan Rawson

     2	jmbuena

     2	ericgreveson

     2	daniil.osokin

     2	cuda_geek

     2	Jacob Baines

     2	Jonathan Bohren

     2	Alexander Bohn / FI$H2k

     2	Zifei Tong

     2	Liu Liu

     2	Malcolm Reynolds

     2	Dustin Spicuzza

     2	Vikas Dhiman

     2	Misty De Meo

     2	Moshe Kaplan

     2	Charles Otto

     2	Pastafarianist

     2	Peter Minin

     2	Roy Reapor

     2	Siegfried Hochdorfer

     2	Siva Prasad Varma

     2	Daniil-Osokin

     1	Éric Piel

     1	Abid K

     1	Amro

     1	Andrew Senin

     1	Brian McKinnon

     1	Corentin Wallez

     1	Dong Nguyen

     1	Egbert van der Wal

     1	Eugene Gritskevich

     1	Fabrice Silva

     1	Frédéric Devernay

     1	Georgios Evangelidis

     1	Haoxiang Li

     1	IanVS

     1	Jan Machacek

     1	Jin Ma

     1	Jordi Villar

     1	Josh Doe

     1	Justin Muncaster

     1	KOLANICH

     1	Karl-Heinz Zimmer

     1	Kazuki MATSUDA

     1	Kevin

     1	Konstantin Bezruk

     1	Luis Díaz Más

     1	Martin Baeum

     1	NCBee

     1	Niels Gerlif Myrtue

     1	Niko

     1	Niko Li

     1	P. Karasev

     1	Pablo Speciale

     1	ShengyinWu

     1	Stefan Romberg

     1	Stefan Walk

     1	Stephen Fox

     1	Takahiro Horikawa

     1	Uwe Kindler

     1	Xavier Delacour

     1	andrey.kamaev

     1	askforeric

     1	caorong

     1	dave

     1	gferry

     1	hartmut

     1	hgaspar

     1	jackculpepper

     1	kir

     1	mdim

     1	mikle

     1	morozov.andrey

     1	noob

     1	ograycode

     1	saskathex

     1	takacsd

     1	tim36272

     1	vlad

     1	vpisarev

     1	Abhinav Gupta

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h3. Before the "atomic bomb" commit

| *Name* |      *Company* (by the moment of contribution) | *Remarks* |

| Abrosimov, Dmitry |   Intel Corp. |    Optimization, Eigen objects |

| Alekseev, Aleksey |   Intel Corp. |    IppCV testing |

| Asbach, Mark |   RWTH Aachen University |    New-style Linux makefiles, SWIG wrappers, Mac OS X porting |

| Baksheev, Anatoly |      Itseez |          GPU module, CMake support for OpenCV, Spin Images |

| Benoit, Alexandre |      LISTIC lab |          Retina model |

| Blanco, Jose Luis |      Universidad de Malaga, Spain |  CMake support for OpenCV; added cvLinearPolar, multiple bug reports and misc. patches |

| Boldyrev, Sergey |      Intel Corp. |       rpm spec & linux makefiles |

| Bornet, Olivier |      IDIAP Research Institute | New-style Linux makefiles, SWIG & specialized Python wrappers |

| Bouguet, Jean-Yves |      Intel Corp. |         Algorithms for Camera calibration, calibration toolbox for MATLAB, LK in pyramids ... |

| Bovyrin, Alexander |      Intel Corp. |         Contours, Stereo, Improvements in object detection, blobtrack/vs module in cvaux |

| Bowman, James |      Willow Garage Inc. |       Latex-based OpenCV documentation, the new-style Python wrappers opencvpython, a lot of QA work. |

| Bradski, Gary |      Intel Corp., Willow Garage Inc. | Idea and Vision, Leading, Promotion, the OpenCV book. Also, CAMSHIFT & MHI algorithms, Codebook background/foreground subtraction etc. |

| Bradley, David |      Princeton Univ. |         Haar classifier for profile faces |

| Breen, Ed |      ??? |         EiC intepreter, used for Hawk |

| Burenkov, Denis |      Moscow State Uni |         Contour morphing, several demo scripts |

| Butko, Nicolas | ??? | HighGUI Cocoa Backend |

| Calonder, Michael | Germany | Calonder detector |

| Castrillon-Santana Modesto | IUSIANI, Spain | Haarcascades for facial feature detection |

| Cherepanova, Tatiana |   Novosibirsk University |    Face tracking |

| Cherepennikov, Valery |  Intel Corp. |         Optimization, matrices, estimators (Kalman, ConDensation) and more ... |

| Chudinovich, Boris |  Intel Corp. |         Ideas and algorithms on contours and comp. geometry functions |

| Cohen, Andre | ??? | HighGUI QTKit backend |

| Conbere, Morgan |    ??? |         Image I/O on MacOSX |

| Cowperthwaite, David |   Intel Corp. |         3d Tracker |

| Dadgostar, Farhad |    ??? |         Adaptive Skin Detector, Fuzzy [[MeanShift]] Tracker |

| Dalal, Navneet | ["Page":http://www.navneetdalal.com|Home] | 

| Davies, Bob |    Intel Corp. |         First OpenCV installation program, communications with user group, tech. advisor |

| Delacour, Xavier |    [[PhaseSpace]] Inc. |         Octave bindings, KD trees/BBF and LSH search, some Video I/O components for highgui |

| Devernay, Frederic |    INRIA (?) |         Multiple patches for OpenCV (cvcam, cxcore, cv, highgui). |

| Dimashova, Maria |    Itseez |         [[TrainCascade]] application, the new object detection class cv::CascadeClassifier, Extremely Random Trees in MLL, a lot of optimization and QA work on MLL and Features2D. |

| Don Murray |    [[PointGrey]] |          [[PointGrey]] SDK and patches for stereo gesture recognition code |

| Dubey, Premnath |    ??? |          Patch for cvcam (Windows version) |

| Eaton, Daniel |    ??? |          Texture descriptors code |

| Eruhimov, Victor |    Intel Corp., Itseez |          Hough & distance transforms, stereo, Hawk, HighGUI, One-way descriptor and more ... |

| Fabri, Stefano | Univ. of Rome | HighGUI gstreamer backend |

| Filip, Daniel |    Google Inc. |          cv::wImage* template image classes |

| Gaspard Breton |    France Telecom |          Support for multiple cameras (2,3,4) in [[SyncFilter]] and cvcam |

| Grachev, Ilya |    Intel Corp. |          TCL/TK demos (cvlkdemo, cvcsdemo, cvenv) |

| Gruebele, Philip |    ??? |          Multiple patches for OpenCV |

| Guhring, Philipp |    ??? |          Single-object mode in cvHaarDetectObjects |

| Hafeneger, Stefan |    ??? |          Some 3D & Calibration related functionality |

| Halsall, Chris |    Open Source Solutions Inc |  O-Reilly papers on OpenCV, calibration app for Linux, patches for Linux version |

| Hameed, Shameem |    University of Michigan |    Haar classifiers for eye detection |

| Hasler, Nils |    Max Planck Institut |    16-bit images support, Jasper and OpenEXR bindings in HighGUI |

| Jacobsen, Jostein |    NTNU |    Hartley/Sturm correction |

| Kamaev, Andrey | Itseez | Android Port Improvements & Optimization |

| Karasev, Peter | Georgia Tech | Helped with Android Port |

| Kertesz, Csaba |    - |    v4l2 interface, bugfixes at almost every area |

| Khamenya, Valery |    BioVisioN AG |    OpenCV CVS repository at [[SourceForge]] |

| Khudyakov, Vasily |    Novosibirsk University |    Face feature detection |

| Krivakin, Konstantin | ??? | TBB parallelization of ML |

| Kruppa, Hannes |    ETH Zurich |    Haar classifier for fullbody, lowerbody, upperbody detection. |

| Kuranov, Alexander |    Intel Corp. |    Matlab wrappers, face detection code, haartraining and related applications |

| Kuriakin, Valery |    Intel Corp. |    Started OpenCV project in Nizhny Novrogod Lab |

| Kosov, Sergey    | MPI Informatik |    Variational Stereo Correspondence Algorithm |

| Lienhart, Rainer |    Intel Corp. |    Haar feature-based face detection algorithm and the original code; Self-similarity features. |

| Liu Liu |    ??? |    SURF, Spill trees, MSERs |

| Lantz, Philip |    Intel Corp. |    3d Tracker |

| Lundin, Magnus |    ??? |    Patches and new functionality for Linux version of highgui |

| Lysenkov, Ilya |    Itseez. |    Circle grid detector. Bug fixes. |

| Mihelich, Patrick | Willow Garage | Innumerable patches |

| Molinov, Sergey |    Intel Corp., Itseez |    HMM face recognition code, POSIT, snakes,  optical flow, improved face detection, stereo, bundle adjustment and more ... |

| Mordvitsev, Alexander |    Saint-Petersburg Univ. |    Python samples |

| Morozov, Andrey | Itseez |    Buildbot, build scripts; multi-threaded FFMPEG support |

| Mosyagin, Valery |    Intel Corp. |    View morphing, camera calibration code v.1, fundamental matrix estimation |

| Muehlmann, Karsten |    Lehrstuhl fur Informatik V | 3D stereo correspondence algorithm (not included yet) |

| Muja, Marius |    Willow Garage Inc. |    FLANN bindings |

| Nefian, Ara |    Intel Corp. |    Algorithm for HMM face recognition |

| Oblomov, Sergey |    Intel Corp. |    Camshift and histogram code, linux scripts and makefiles, optimization and more ... |

| Pantofaru, Caroline |    Willow Garage Inc. |    Latex-based OpenCV documentation |

| Pele, Ofir | Hebrew U | Fast EMD, New Chi-Sqr histogram matching |

| Perreault, Simon |    Universite Laval |    O(1) Median filtering algorithm |

| Philomin, Vasanth |    PHILIPS (?) |    Several bug reports/fixes on face detection etc. |

| Pisarevsky, Vadim |    Intel Corp., Itseez |    OpenCV hacker :) |

| Pleskov, Alexander |    Intel Corp. |    Pyramidal segmentation, gesture recognition code, comp. geometry functions |

| Rabaud, Vincent | Video Surf | Homography to rotation conversion. Corner orientation, optmizations |

| Rodyushkin, Konstantin | Intel Corp. |    applications OpenCV to 3dFace caused a few bug reports, functionality proposals, blobtrack/vs module in cvaux |

| Rosten, Edward |    Univ. of Cambridge |    FAST corner detector |

| Rublee, Ethan |  Self | Android port, further development of FAST and BRIEF |

| Schaefer, Dirk |    MD-Mathematische Dienste GmbH | original code for Bayer->RGB pattern conversion |

| Schiele, Bernt |    ETH Zurich |    Haar classifier for fullbody, lowerbody, upperbody detection. |

| Shavit, Adi |    ??? |    OpenCV forum moderation, OpenCV logo |

| Shevtsova, Irina |    Moscow State Uni |    EM, Bayesian classifier, Random Trees, CNN in Machine Learning module; SVM enhancements |

| Shishkov, Alexander | Itseez |    Buildbot, build scripts, OpenCV infrastructure |

| Shiqi Yu |    Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology |  Haar cascades for eye detection. The author of the world-first book on OpenCV (in Chinese) and the translator to Chinese of the OReilly OpenCV book. |

| Sobolev, Andrey |    Moscow State Uni |    Contour skeletons and linear-contour model |

| Spizhevoy, Alexey |      Itseez |          Stitching application |

| Stanchak, Roman |    Naval Research Lab |    Multiple improvements in Highgui (GTK+), Python wrappers and the core functionality |

| Stavinzky, Jay |    ??? |    8u->8u L1 Distance transform. |

| Toderici, George |    ??? |    Floating-point bilateral filter |

| Veretennikov, Eugene |  Intel Corp. |    Testing, some comp. geometry functions |

| Vezhnevets, Vladimir |  MSU Graphics and Media Lab | New algorithm for chessboard detection |

| Zajko, Marian | Ximea | Ximea cameras support |

| Zaguskin, Victor |  Intel Corp. |    cvcam, vmdemo in tcl/tk |

| Watson, Theodore | ??? | videoInput author |

| Wayne W. Cheng |  [[SoftIntegration]] |    Ch C/C++ intepreter, OpenCV Ch toolbox |

| Wood, Travis |  ??? |    Patches for highgui (video capturing in Linux) |

OpenCV includes (or included in the past) modified versions of the following software:

 * Gaussian Random Number Generator by George Marsaglia et al. (see cxcore/src/cxrand.cpp)

 * SVD from SLATEC (see cxcore/src/cxsvd.cpp)

 * Small inline math functions and macros by Agner Fog, Bruce Holloway et al., Ken Turkowski (see cxcore/include/cxtypes.h)

 * Quicksort implementation from University of California, Berkeley (see cxcore/include/cxoperations.hpp)

 * Earth Mover Distance and RGB->Lab conversion by Yossi Rubner (see src/cv/cvemd.cpp and src/cv/cvcolor.cpp)

Active OpenCV forum participants, bug reporters etc.:

 * Barbaresi, Abramo Betti, Gabriele Cao, Ning Cawkwell, Jack Chen, Gen-Nan Cheng, Michael Fritz, Frank Grossman, Dave Iannizotto, Giancarlo Lu, Le Kunz, Clay Mellor, J. P. Ming, Li Zayed, Mohamed Rocha, Jairo Stewart, James Andr Small, Daniel Zivkovic, Zoran