h1. VisionChallenge

OpenCV is launching a community-wide challenge to update and extend the OpenCV library, to accelerate CV innovation. An award pool of $50,000 will be provided to the best performing algorithms for the following 10 CV application building blocks:

* image segmentation,
* image registration,
* human pose estimation,
* SLAM,
* multi-view stereo matching,
* object recognition,
* face recognition,
* gesture recognition,
* action recognition, and
* text recognition.

All participants must agree to publicly release their code under BSD license. Winners must also prepare their code for OpenCV inclusion.

h2. Timeline:

*Submission Period:*
_September 1st 2014 - November 31st 2014_

*Winners Announcement:*
_December 21st 2014_

h2. Contact:

For more information, go to http://code.opencv.org/projects/opencv/wiki/VisionChallenge

Or mail:

[email protected] [email protected]

h3. Back to Developer page:

"OpenCV":http://code.opencv.org/projects/opencv/wiki