Itseez machine learning contest in Nizhny State University has completed! See the winners on the contest site!

The Khronos group has announced the new initiative to create an open, royalty-free standard for cross platform acceleration of computer vision applications. Itseez as a company that proposed the creation of the computer vision working group has become a Khronos member and will take active part in the creation of the standard. This is an important step toward our goal of providing development tools for creating efficient computer vision applications! For more information, please see the Khronos press release.

We are happy to announce the development of a new open source implementation of KinectFusion, a simple system for 3D local mapping with an OpenNI-compatible camera. A description of the algorithm is presented in KinectFusion: Real-time 3D Reconstruction and Interaction Using a Moving Depth Camera, and you can watch a brief demonstration of the current implementation's capabilities in the video. The preliminary version of the code is released open source as a part of the PCL library. See more details at pointclouds.org.

The OpenCV development team has just released OpenCV 2.3.1 for Android OS! We have significantly expanded Java API and now it provides about 700 different OpenCV functions for Android developers. For more information, please refer to the release notes.

Due to a generous grant from nVidia, Itseez is joining PCL development team in order to provide GPGPU optimizations for PCL. Part of PCL 2.x (development will start soon), we plan to completely integrate GPU accelerations for all PCL 3D algorithms. Together with the PCL dev team, we will try to concentrate and coagulate our efforts to better support the 2D/3D perception community. Our collaboration started after last year's GTC, and will intensify from now onwards.