OpenCV 4.0 Released As The Overhauled Computer Vision Library, Adds Experimental Vulkan

In Summary :

OpenCV 4.0 is now officially out as the widely-used real-time computer vision library.

This is a big update for OpenCV and also marks converting it into a C++11 library. Besides shifting more to a C++ focus, OpenCV 4.0 also has performance improvements, DNN improvements, a QR code detector, a Kinect Fusion module, and various other additions.

Another huge but experimental addition to OpenCV 4.0 is an initial Vulkan compute back-end for cases where OpenCL support is unavailable. This Vulkan back-end was developed by Intel and should be more exciting and mature in future releases. [...]

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