Original OpenCV committee (vision, functionality proposals etc.):
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Dr. Gary Bradski
Prof. Trevor Darrell
Prof. Irfan Essa
Prof. Jitendra Malik
Prof. Pietro Perona
Prof. Stan Sclaroff
Prof. Carlo Tomasi

People who helped to make OpenCV the real thing
(if you noticed that some names are missing, please mail to vadim.pisarevsky@intel.com)
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Name                  Company (by the moment       Remarks
                    of contribution/cooperation)

Alekseev, Aleksey       Intel Corp.                IppCV testing
Boldyrev, Sergey        Intel Corp.                rpm spec & linux makefiles
Breen, Ed               ???                        EiC intepreter, used for Hawk
Devernay, Frederic      INRIA (?)                  Patch for cvcam (Linux version)
Don Murray              PointGrey                  PointGrey SDK and patches for stereo gesture recognition code
Dubey, Premnath         ???                        Patch for cvcam (Windows version)
Halsall, Chris          Open Source Solutions Inc  O-Reilly papers on OpenCV,
                                                   calibration app for Linux (is not supported now?)
                                                   patches for Linux version
Khamenya, Valery        BioVisioN AG               OpenCV CVS repository at SourceForge
Muehlmann, Karsten      Lehrstuhl fur Informatik V  Another stereo correspondence code (not included yet)
Philomin, Vasanth       PHILIPS (?)                Several bug reports/fixes on face detection etc.
Rodyushkin, Konstantin  Intel Corp.                applications OpenCV to 3dFace caused a few bug reports, functionality proposals
Schaefer, Dirk          MD-Mathematische Dienste GmbH  original code for Bayer->RGB pattern conversion
Veretennikov, Eugene    Intel Corp.                Testing, comp. geometry functions
Wayne W. Cheng          SoftIntegration            Ch C/C++ intepreter, OpenCV Ch toolbox (proposal + SDK)


Active OpenCV forum participants:
(!TODO: more info needed)

Barbaresi, Abramo
Betti, Gabriele
Cao, Ning
Cawkwell, Jack 
Chen, Gen-Nan
Cheng, Michael 
Fritz, Frank
Iannizotto, Giancarlo
Lu, Le
Kunz, Clay 
Mellor, J. P.
Ming, Li 
Philomin, Vasanth
Zayed, Mohamed 
Rocha, Jairo 
Stewart, James Andr.

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BUG reports:

Small, Daniel;
Carlos Andres Rocha;
Shavit, Adi;
Zivkovic, Zoran
and other people from OpenCV forum at www.yahoogroups.com

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