What is Open CV

What is Open CV ?

Open CV stands Open Computer Vision Library, created by Intel to shower their Processor power, but eventually became the tool for machine learning.

So why you need to learn open CV and what it will hold up to in your future ?

Open CV has become the defacto library for image processing and face recognition methods and there is a large community based support for open CV. It provides all the simple tools in the form of functions that make the most complex tasks in image processing easier.One more important things is that every one knows the future is "Robotics", and open CV provides you with the most exciting features to pursue your career in Computer vision.

Although it primarily supports C++, it's libraries are found in other languages like Java, Matlab etc.,

Here is the official wiki page

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki