OpenCV Files

This is OpenCV 2.0,
the source package for Linux, MacOSX and every other Unix-like OS.

The major features:
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* the brand-new C++ interface,
  in addition to the existing OpenCV 1.x C API.

* a lot of new functionality, especially in the area
  of feature detectors and descriptors

* SSE2 optimization of many functions

* the revised directory structure and
  the completely new CMake-based build system

* completely new documentation, available
  offline as PDF (included) and online:
  http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/index.html

and a lot more; please, see the ChangeLog.


The installation procedure at glance:
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   1. tar -xjf OpenCV-2.0.0.tar.bz2
   2. mkdir opencv.build
   3. cd opencv.build
   4a. cmake [<extra_options>] ../OpenCV-2.0.0 # CMake-way
      or
   4b. ../OpenCV-2.0.0/configure [<extra_options>] # configure-way
   5. make -j 2
   6. sudo make install
   7. sudo ldconfig # linux only

For the list of prerequisities and more detailed installation guide,
please, see http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/InstallGuide

Known issues:
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- Some (actually, quite many) of SWIG-based Python bindings do not work.
  The problem is being investigated

- Some correctness tests occasionally fail; in 99% of cases those
  are known problems in the tests.
  
- Some tests in cvtest and mltest require test data (otherwise the respective
  tests will fail, which is normal), that is not included
  into the package to save space. The data can be retrieved from
  http://opencvlibrary.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opencvlibrary/trunk/opencv_extra
  
  Then run cvtest as
  ./cvtest -d <the_path_to_opencv_extra>/testdata/cv
  
  and mltest as
  ./mltest -d <the_path_to_opencv_extra>/testdata/ml

- The reference manual does not include description of most of
  the new functionality from cvaux.
  As soon as the documentation will be updated, it will be uploaded to
  http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/index.html
  Stay tuned!