I need it. Students build on it to code projects for our class on Digital Video Special Effects. Without it, they'd spend the whole semester re-inventing old "stuff."
There is actually a long history of trying to develop "the" computer-vision library, but this one actually has an impressive cross-platform user base. To my knowledge, the 2nd most popular library is the Microsoft Vision SDK.
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There is actually a long history of trying to develop "the" computer-vision library, but this one actually has an impressive cross-platform user base. To my knowledge, the 2nd most popular library is the Microsoft Vision SDK.