About the Authors

Kirill Kornyakov has been a member of core OpenCV development team for the last 4 years. He works at Itseez (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), where he leads the development of an OpenCV library for the Android operating system, with a focus on performance optimization for the NVIDIA Tegra platform. He also works on implementation of real-time computer vision algorithms, mainly computational photography applications. Kirill has B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia.

To Nina and Brusnichka, whose warmth gives me strength.

Alexander Shishkov has been working in the field of computer vision for the last five years. He works at Itseez (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), where he has developed technologies such as video-based people counting systems, object detection, and image retrieval systems. He also created continuous integration system and websites (http://opencv.org) for OpenCV. Alexander has B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia.

I want to thank my family who supported and encouraged me in spite of 
all the time I was away from them.