Amin Ahmadi Tazehkandi is an Iranian developer and a computer vision expert. He completed his computer software engineering studies in Iran and has worked for numerous software and industrial companies, including Paxan (Turkey) and Petroleum Software (UK). Amin is a passionate blogger and a longtime volunteer and supporter of the Computer Vision community. He currently resides in Vienna, Austria, where he continues to research, develop, and write about cross-platform computer vision software development.
I would like to thank my wife, Senem, who is a symbol of passion, love, and strength for me. I would also like to thank my family, a big pack of brilliant engineers born to an Iranian inventor father and a loving mother, for all of their unconditional love and support.
Karl Phillip Buhr has a BSc in computer science (2006), an MSc in applied computing (2010), and is a Data Science and Machine Learning enthusiast. He developed many cross-platform and computer vision systems for the private sector and enjoys answering questions on Stack Overflow. He spent years lecturing classes and doing research projects for a computing engineering course in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Nowadays, he runs a software company focused on developing solutions for challenging industry problems.
Vinícius Godoy is a professor at PUCPR and a proud owner of a game development website, Ponto V!. He has a master's degree in computer vision and image processing (PUCPR), a specialization degree in game development (Universidade Positivo), and has graduation in Technology in Informatics—Networking (UFPR). He has been in the software development field for more than 20 years and is the author of the book OpenCV by Example by Packt Publishing.
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