Once you have cmake, you will go into terminal and navigate to wherever you’ve placed you folder. If you don’t already have it, it’s a quick install and can be obtained here : (Make sure to get the binary distribution for Mac OSX) For this we will need a terminal application called cmake. The next part is to compile/build all of the opencv source. When you’ve downloaded that you may place it in any directory. We will want to click on opencv-unix and then get the latest version which right now is 2.4.6.1. Git checkout 2.4 The second option is too simply download the opencv source from your browser. (checkout the version of the source that we want) In my case, I stored it in ~/Desktop/opencv. In terminal you first need to navigate to the folder where you would like to store your opencv directory.

The first option is pretty straightforward. The other is that you download your OS specific folder from the sourceforge page where opencv has stored their folders. One is all through terminal and requires that you have git installed and clone into the github directory containing the folder with opencv. That is fine as nothing really changes as far as installation goes in recent updates : ()

This tutorial is currently written for JavaCV 2.4.4. So first things first, we want to jump to the website where they give a pretty decent tutorial on setting up opencv for java. This is for setting it up in eclipse, but it wouldn’t be much different in Netbeans and the OpenCV tutorial gives it’s description of setting it up barebones style. There is not a lot of documentation out there on it and the tutorial skips a few things to I wrote my own little guide to setting it up. I’m hoping FRC teams can really start taking advantage of how easy camera vision seems to be getting every day. Hey everyone, I wanted to do a post on javacv because I’m a java frc programmer and we used a java wrapper last year for smart dashboard but this is a lot nicer.

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