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OpenCV

posted 03 May 2005

Recently I have started playing with a computer vision library. But it is one of those pieces of software that just moves sooo slow because the developers are hard to get ahold of.

In particular I have a terribly trivial patch that makes the library compile under Linux 2.6 and no one has even commented on it on the mailing list or bug tracker. Furthermore the documentation currently has examples that do not compile because of missing libraries and almost twice a day someone is asking how to fix it on the mailing lists.

To make things worse the mailing list is hosted on a closed Yahoo! Groups account and requires logging in to view. Gah!

In any case I am doing my part and I am going to update the documentation and post it on my wiki as soon as possible. If I can't get the developers attention I see a fork in the future...

topics: opencv, code

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Brandon Philips by Mujtaba Ali

ifup.org is the weblog of Brandon Philips and contains excerpts from my code, work and play.

I write Linux software and work on the systems layer of Linux. In the last two years I have helped to organize Linux Plumbers Conf and Freedom HEC Taipei. It has been rewarding to bring together these communities to discuss current Linux issues.

Robotics is another passion and I had the opportunity to mentor a FIRST Robotics team in Portland recently too. I also continue to work with my friend Ron Jackson to build some neat USB devices for robotics.