Introduction
OpenCV (open source computer vision) is released under a BSD license and hence it’s free for both academic and commercial use. It has C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Ubuntu Linux. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications.
OpenCV is the most popular and advanced code library for Computer Vision related applications today, spanning from many very basic tasks (capture and pre-processing of image data) to high-level algorithms (feature extraction, motion tracking, machine learning). It is free software and provides a rich API in C, C++, Java and Python. Other wrappers are available. The library itself is platform-independent and often used for real-time image processing and computer vision.
Installation
Many people are having problem with installing OpenCV even from Ubuntu Software Centre. Here a simple .sh script file get all dependancy files from internet and compile the source finally install opencv on your system. So that users can easily write their CV files from C,C++, and Python
Step 1
Download the latest opencv.sh from https://github.com/jayrambhia/Install-OpenCV/blob/master/Ubuntu/ or Copy the following script to gedit and save as opencv.sh
1 version="$(wget -q -O - http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix | egrep -m1 -o '\"[0-9](\.[0-9])+' | cut -c2-)"
2 echo "Installing OpenCV" $version
3 mkdir OpenCV
4 cd OpenCV
5 echo "Removing any pre-installed ffmpeg and x264"
6 sudo apt-get -qq remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev
7 echo "Installing Dependenices"
8 sudo apt-get -qq install libopencv-dev build-essential checkinstall cmake pkg-config yasm libjpeg-dev libjasper-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libdc1394-22-dev libxine-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libv4l-dev python-dev python-numpy libtbb-dev libqt4-dev libgtk2.0-dev libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libxvidcore-dev x264 v4l-utils ffmpeg
9 echo "Downloading OpenCV"