OpenCV authors and major code algorithm/code contributors.
(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)

Abrosimov, Dmitry       Intel Corp.                Optimization, Eigen objects
Bradski, Gary           Intel Corp.                Idea and Vision, Leading, CAMSHIFT & MHI algorithms and more ...
Bouguet, Jean-Yves      Intel Corp.                Algorithms for Camera calibration, calibration toolbox for MATLAB,
                                                   and LK in pyramids
Bovyrin, Alexander      Intel Corp.                Contours, Stereo 
Burenkov, Denis         Moscow State Uni           Contour morphing, hawk scripts
Cherepanova, Tatiana    Novosibirsk University     Face tracking
Cherepennikov, Valery   Intel Corp.                Optimization, matrices, estimators (Kalman, ConDensation) and more ...
Chudinovich, Boris      Intel Corp.                Ideas and algorithms on contours and comp. geometry functions
Cowperthwaite, David    Intel Corp.                3d Tracker
Cox, Cory               Intel Corp.                3d Tracker
Davies, Bob             Intel Corp.                First OpenCV install, communications with user group, tech. advisor
Eaton, Daniel           ???                        Texture descriptors code
Eruhimov, Victor        Intel Corp.                Hough & distance transforms, stereo, Hawk and more ...
Grachev, Ilya           Intel Corp.                TCL/TK demos (cvlkdemo, cvcsdemo, cvenv)
Khudyakov, Vasily       Novosibirsk University     Face feature detection
Kuranov, Alexander      Intel Corp.                Matlab wrappers, Face detection code 
Kuriakin, Valery        Intel Corp.                Started OpenCV project in Nizhny Novrogod Lab
Lantz, Philip           Intel Corp.                3d Tracker
Lienhart, Rainer        Intel Corp.                Haar feature-based face detection algorithm
Molinov, Sergey         Intel Corp.                HMM face recognition code, POSIT, snakes, optical flow, stereo and more ...
Mosyagin, Valery        Intel Corp.                View morphing, camera calibration code (C),
                                                   fundamental matrices estimation
Nefian, Ara             Intel Corp.                Algorithm for HMM face recognition
Oblomov, Sergey         Intel Corp.                Camshift and histogram code, linux scripts and makefiles, optimization and more ...
Pisarevsky, Vadim       Intel Corp.                OpenCV hacker :)
Pleskov, Alexander      Intel Corp.                Pyramidal segmentation, gesture recognition code, comp. geometry functions
Sobolev, Andrey         Moscow State Uni           Contour skeletons and linear-contour model
Zaguskin, Victor        Intel Corp.                cvcam, vmdemo in tcl/tk

