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[TheCreator]

Anyone familiar with openCV? I searched everywhere but couldn't find any tutorials. Could someone recommend me a few tutorials that assume your completely new to the whole computer vision thing and know nothing?

Oh and also how hard would you say it would be to create a program that recognizses basic gestures? For a programmer with an intermediate level of skill?
And how long would it take to make something like this?

Thanks

[andywestken]

I searched everywhere but couldn't find any tutorials.

Googling for "opencv +tutorial", the first few results (out of 1,180,000 results) are:

=> http://dasl.mem.drexel.edu/~noahKuntz/openCVTut1.html
"OpenCV Tutorial 1 - Chapters 1 and 2"

=> http://www.laganiere.name/
Robert Laganière's page, inc. link to tutorial

=> http://jmpelletier.com/a-simple-opencv-tutorial/
"A Simple OpenCV Tutorial"

=> http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/Welcome/Introduction
Welcome/Introduction, inc. assorted links to tutorials

=> ...