Re: Small announcement. Meeting at CVPR08?

> Hi Vadim,
>
> Okay. A meeting in Europe would be nice. Is Google using OpenCV for
> the Photosynth project?
>
> With best wishes, Stefan
>
>
> Am 01.07.2008 um 06:30 schrieb Vadim Pisarevsky:
>
>> Stefan,
>>
>> Unfortunately, not many OpenCV developers came, so there was no a
>> dedicated meeting. We just had a lunch with Daniel Filip from Google
>> who considers contributing their efficient C++ wrappers for OpenCV
>> that they extensively use. On Tuesday we meet at Google and discuss it.
>> May be, it would make sense to schedule another meeting somewhere in
>> Europe, where most of OpenCV developers are located.
>> Anyhow, main directions for OpenCV (at least, for WG part of the
>> team) are pretty much defined: better calibration, stereo, elements
>> of 3D reconstruction, salient feature toolbox, better C++ and Python
>> interfaces. Also, the OpenCV book comes out in this fall. OpenCV 1.1
>> would be very nice to have in Q4.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vadim
>>
>> Stefan Hafeneger wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think CVPR08 is over. So what did you decide concerning future
>>> versions of OpenCV. Please let us share your plans. ;-)
>>>
>>> With best wishes, Stefan
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 29.05.2008 um 00:14 schrieb Gary Bradski:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks Vadim
>>>>
>>>> More specifically, if you are going to CVPR 2008, let me know.  We'd
>>>> like to host a "meet and greet" meeting and discuss ideas for OpenCV
>>>> (what to fix, what to add etc).
>>>>
>>>> Willow Garage (www.willowgarage.com a well funded new robotics
>>>> research institute) is now supporting OpenCV, still on friendly
>>>> terms and in cooperation with Intel.  Thus, you will see OpenCV
>>>> become much more actively updated, bug fixed, documented, more
>>>> responsive and more open to user input and contributions.
>>>>
>>>> Willow Garage's focus is on robotics, so you will see some focus in
>>>> that direction starting with better calibration and stereo, ability
>>>> to work with 3D sensors such as Lidar etc. Probably also a lot of
>>>> support for 2D but especially 2D+3D and 3D object recognition and
>>>> pose.  However, there will be more cycles to support things the
>>>> vision community thinks are important, hence, we'd like a kick off
>>>> meeting at CVPR this year.  There will be others in the future.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you'll be there.
>>>>
>>>> Gary Bradski
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Vadim Pisarevsky
>>>> <vadim.pisarevsky@...
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Dear OpenCV developers,
>>>>
>>>> With a great pleasure I would like to inform you that I have moved
>>>> to a small CV company contracted by Willow Garage for the further
>>>> work on OpenCV.
>>>> That is, at least for the nearest year or two I will work full time
>>>> on the library. And not only me, but a few other people from our
>>>> original team will also contribute to the library.
>>>>
>>>> It all became possible thanks to Gary, who, as you probably know,
>>>> has been the founder of OpenCV and still actively promotes the
>>>> library and uses it for Robotics projects (and thanks to WG
>>>> management, of course, who supported the idea). Gary now works for
>>>> WG and will be our supervisor.
>>>>
>>>> Gary, me and Alex will come to CVPR this June in Alaska. If you
>>>> happen to be there, we invite you to the meeting (probably host a
>>>> lunch) for hand shaking and future plans/roadmap discussion. Of
>>>> course, if you can not attend, do not worry, the major points will
>>>> be posted to this list and be the discussion continues here (well,
>>>> it can start here as well).
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Vadim
>>>>
>>>>
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