Hi there OpenCV Group,
We hope this message finds you nicely. We’re again with one other thrilling replace on our crowdfunding marketing campaign‘s progress. Your particular person help (all 200 of you up to now!) has been a shiny mild within the marketing campaign, and we’re making strides in the direction of our aim. As we speak, we’d prefer to shine a highlight on one of many largest apps on the market which makes use of OpenCV however has not but contributed to help the library: Snapchat, by Snap, Inc.
Snap, Inc., the revolutionary firm behind Snapchat, is modified the social media recreation with their Android software by leveraging the facility of OpenCV. They’ve harnessed this open-source expertise to boost the visible expertise for hundreds of thousands of customers. OpenCV, with its laptop imaginative and prescient capabilities, allows Snap’s Android app to use real-time filters, optimize facial recognition, and improve picture processing. The consequence? A seamless and fascinating person expertise that retains us coming again for extra snaps and tales.
To this point, Snap has not supported OpenCV financially regardless of their large success. As advocates for open-source applied sciences, we consider it’s their obligation to help initiatives like OpenCV which have helped construct their fortunes, as over 200 people have already achieved within the marketing campaign.
By backing our marketing campaign, you’re not solely serving to fund the continued improvement and enchancment of OpenCV however having an impact on your complete Open Supply ecosystem, a lot of that are watching this marketing campaign carefully. We urge Snap, Inc. and different tech giants to comply with your lead by contributing to a library that helps energy their improvements.
We hope Snap will be a part of us on this collective effort to make sure a brighter future for expertise and the unimaginable open-source initiatives that make all of it potential. OpenCV is open supply, non-profit, and open to all. We need to proceed that mission, however with out the help of huge corporations like Snap, OpenCV might quickly institute a business license.
To our backers and also you locally: Thanks on your continued help, and keep tuned for extra updates on our marketing campaign’s journey to make a distinction on the planet. In case you’ve been on a fence about donating, now’s the time! Collectively, we are able to make it occur.
