![AKAZE logo][akaze-logo] A new version of KAZE and AKAZE features is a good candidate to become a part of OpenCV. So i decided to update KAZE port i made a while ago with a new version of these features and finally make a pull request to make it a part of OpenCV. KAZE are now a part of OpenCV library The OpenCV has accepted my pull-request and merged KAZE port into master branch of the OpenCV library.

Perhaps, someone may find this post provocative or offensive. But in fact it’s not. Very often i receive offers from all kind of CXX (CEO, CTO, COO, C-bla-bla-bla) that can be formulated like “We want to build product X using OpenCV”. What’s wrong with you guys? OpenCV is not a panacea. In this post i’ll try to reveal this myth. Although OpenCV does a great help on getting proof-of-concept software that every start-up needs most of all at early stages, it can make a nightmare for developers in production stage.

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p | I welcome you at my new blog home! After using Wordpress for three years of bloging i decided that i’m unhappy with this blog engine. | Personally, i wanted something more “geeky”, if you know what i mean. Wordpress is like a “click to win” - it offers a lot, but keeps you | in strict sandbox called Wordpress API. But first of all - it’s too slow as a blogging platform for one people.

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img.pull-left.img-thumbnail(src=“small-icon.png”) p | Meanwhile, after watching this brilliant talk of the Alexander Soloviov on “Functional Reactive Programming and Closure Script” i decided to study Functional Programming. | Fortunately, there was a active course a(href=“https://class.coursera.org/progfun-003/class/index") Functional Programming Principles in Scala |. p | My first impressions on Scala is… it’s fun! | Thinking in functional programming paradigm makes you think different about your objects and their connection to each other. | And i’m curious how Scala can be used for solving main computer vision problems.