首先说一点，PCL之OpenCV，两者之间是很相通的，就如各个编程语言，你若精通一门，则让你去学另外一种编程语言，我想你会很快上手的。 视觉与激光扫描的融合，机器人视觉，更好的模式识别算法，性能优化无止境（IPP，GPU，OMP），感知计算，认知计算，深度学习的应用等等。
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Text detection and recognition by Lluis Gomez
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HDR by Fedor Morozov and Alexander Shishkov
- KAZE/A-KAZE by Eugene Khvedchenya, the algorithm author Pablo Alcantarilla
and some improvements by F. Morozov.（12年提出的新特征，13年完善。据说也是一个很漂亮的算法，比sift surf 结果要好，pcl库已经引入了后两者，这个应该会考虑加入）
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Smart segmentation and edge-aware filters by Vitaly Lyudvichenko, Yuri Gitman, Alexander Shishkov and Alexander Mordvintsev
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Car detection using Waldboost, ACF by Vlad Shakhuro and Nikita Manovich
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TLD tracker and several common-use optimization algorithms by Alex Leontiev（就是图像识别的究极模式那个视频）
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Matlab bindings by Hilton Bristow, with support from Mathworks.
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Greatly extended Python bindings, including Python 3support, and several OpenCV+Python tutorials by Alexander Mordvintsev, Abid Rahman and others.（Python很早就想学习了，ai）
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3D Visualization using VTK by Ozan Tonkal and Anatoly Baksheev.（这是PCL的看家本领，so easy）
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RGBD module by Vincent Rabaud
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Line Segment Detector by Daniel Angelov
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Many useful Computational Photography algorithms by Siddharth Kherada
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Shape descriptors, matching and morphing shapes (shape module)by Juan Manuel Perez Rua and Ilya Lysenkov
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Long-term tracking + saliency-based improvements
(tracking module) by Antonella Cascitelli and Francesco Puja
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Another good pose estimation algorithm and the tutorial on pose estimation by Edgar Riba and Alexander Shishkov
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Line descriptors and matchers by Biagio Montesano and Manuele Tambourin
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Myriads of improvements in various parts of the library by Steven Puttemans; thank you a lot, Steven!
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Several NEON optimizations by Adrian Stratulat, Cody Rigney, Alexander Petrikov, Yury Gorbachev and others.
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Fast foreach loop over cv::Mat by Kazuki Matsuda
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Image alignment (ECC algorithm) by Georgios Evangelidis
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GDAL image support by Marvin Smith
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RGBD module by Vincent Rabaud
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Fisheye camera model by Ilya Krylov
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OSX framework build script by Eugene Khvedchenya
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Multiple FLANN improvements by Pierre-Emmanuel Viel
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Improved WinRT support by Gregory Morse
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Latent SVM Cascade by Evgeniy Kozhinov and NNSU team (awaiting integration)
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Logistic regression by Rahul Kavi
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Five-point pose estimation algorithm by Bo Li
从OpenCV3.0新特性 看PCL库的发展
原文：http://blog.csdn.net/zkl99999/article/details/45070917
