h1. OpenCV Contributors

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

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|

*OpenCV Corporate Contributors*
| *Company* | *Contribution* |
| "Intel":http://www.Intel.com | OpenCV origination, years of programming support |
| "Google":http://www.google.com | Image wrapper class cvwimage |
| "Willow Garage":http://www.willowgarage.com | Supporting current core programming team |
| "Phase Space":http://www.phasespace.com/ | Bundle adjustment |

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*OpenCV Individual Contributors*

| *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 scripts |
| 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