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OpenCV is an open source “computer vision” library, which means that it can be used to extract information from an image, or a series of images (like a video). A computer vision library has many uses, but my favorite is in the field of robotics.
The Cowtown Computer Congress has started an OpenCV Study Group twice a month, and I would like a common development platform for everyone in the group to use. This has led me to consider the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse was originally developed for the Java Programming Language, but using the Eclipse CDT it can be used for C++ development as well. Eclipse is cross platform, and has a huge following in both the open source and the corporate communities (for example, Google uses Eclipse for quite a bit). Since we don’t want to dictate what the OpenCV Study Group participants use in terms of an operating system, I think Eclipse would a good choice, just to keep everyone on the same page.