OpenCV 3.0 release with Python 3 support

The third version of the OpenCV (Open Computer Vision Library) has been released - a popular library of computer vision, image processing and general-purpose numerical algorithms with open source.

The release includes approximately 1500 patches sent via github. It is mentioned that OpenCV used a large amount of Intel’s intellectual property (IPPCV), which the company transferred to library users for free, without royalties, for commercial and non-commercial use. Hardware acceleration using OpenCL is now available to developers through the T-API (transparent API). In addition, the third version of OpenCV added a huge number of new features, improvements in performance and stability, more about everything can be found at the link .

This is the first stable version of the library, which fully supports Python 3. For Windows and Python 3.4, binaries can already be downloaded from lfd.uci.edu . The module still has the name cv2 .