OpenCV4Android News

[Kirill Kornyakov]

Hello everybody,

OpenCV4Android development team has some news!

This Group

1. We've renamed the group to the OpenCV4Android, because this is how everybody calls the library. You can see it at the issue tracker: http://cweode.opencv.org/projects/opencv/wiki/OpenCV4Android. So, from this time we recommend you to use this name, or O4A as a short name.
2. OpenCV project is going to get its own Stackoverflow-like Q&A forum by the end of the April (for sure). That means that we'll suggest to move there as much discussions as possible. Many discussions here are not Android specific, so better to invite larger audience for brainstorming. And you know, reputation and voting mechanisms are beneficial to everybody. We are going to build much larger and healthier community of CV developers. We are not sure if we're going to maintain this group. May be we'll use it for discussing the future of the library, but may be we'll stick to the issue tracker and its infrastructure. Please share your thoughts on this!

OpenCV 2.4 release is coming!

1. 2.4 beta will be released this week. Linux tarball is already available, packages for other OSes are coming, including Android. You're invited to participate in beta-testing!
2. OpenCV 2.4 stable will be released by the May 1, so please reserve some time for beta-testing. You can help us to get a stable release for another couple of months.
3. We haven't decide when we're going to release the OpenCV 2.5. Currently we release new versions every ~6 months, but we're discussing the switch to the quarterly releases. So, it may be October, or it may be July. You can share you opinion on this issue, what is better from your point of view: "release often and early" or to "provide rare but solid packages".
   

Happy hacking with OpenCV!

OpenCV4Android Dev Team

[Kirill Kornyakov]

Hello,

We're announcing the kick-off of 2.4 beta-testing! You can get the package from the Sourceforge website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-android/. We have ~3 weeks before the 2.4 stable, which we are going to use for bug fixing, adding more samples and creating better documentation. So, if you've detected any problems with the 2.4 beta or you want to propose a sample for package, feel free to contact us here or at delete-openc...@delete-itseez.com (get rid of the ''delete-'' to make the email work). Please note that you're not supposed to create tickets at the issue tracker (http://code.opencv.org) each time you meet a problem. May be the problem is in your environment, so let's first discuss all issues here.

If you want to contribute something, you can create a ticket with the Patch type and the android Category. We'll try to adopt everything which could be useful for the community. Please note that your code should be compliant with OpenCV license, which is BSD.

Regards,

OpenCV Dev Team