(if you noticed that some names are missing, please mail to Vadim Pisarevsky)

Original OpenCV committee (vision, functionality proposals etc.):
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Dr. Gary Bradski
Prof. Trevor Darrell
Prof. Irfan Essa
Prof. Jitendra Malik
Prof. Pietro Perona
Prof. Stan Sclaroff
Prof. Carlo Tomasi

OpenCV authors and major contributors
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Name                    Company (by the moment     Remarks
                        of contribution)

Abrosimov, Dmitry       Intel Corp.                Optimization, Eigen objects
Alekseev, Aleksey       Intel Corp.                IppCV testing
Asbach, Mark            RWTH Aachen University     New-style Linux makefiles, SWIG wrappers, Mac OS X porting

Baksheev, Anatoly       Argus CV                   CMake support for OpenCV, Spin Images
Blanco, Jose Luis       Universidad de Malaga, Spain   CMake support for OpenCV; added cvLinearPolar
Boldyrev, Sergey        Intel Corp.                rpm spec & linux makefiles
Bornet, Olivier         IDIAP Research Institute   New-style Linux makefiles, SWIG & specialized Python wrappers 
Bouguet, Jean-Yves      Intel Corp.                Algorithms for Camera calibration, calibration toolbox for MATLAB, LK in pyramids ...
Bovyrin, Alexander      Intel Corp.                Contours, Stereo, Improvements in object detection, blobtrack/vs module in cvaux
Bowman, James           Willow Garage Inc.         Latex-based OpenCV documentation
Bradski, Gary           Intel Corp.                Idea and Vision, Leading, CAMSHIFT & MHI algorithms and more ...
Bradley, David          Princeton Univ.            Haar classifier for profile faces
Breen, Ed               ???                        EiC intepreter, used for Hawk
Burenkov, Denis         Moscow State Uni           Contour morphing, several demo scripts

Castrillon-Santana, Modesto IUSIANI, Spain         Haarcascades for facial feature detection 
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
Conbere, Morgan         ???                        Image I/O on MacOSX
Cowperthwaite, David    Intel Corp.                3d Tracker

Dadgostar, Farhad       ???                        Adaptive Skin Detector, Fuzzy MeanShift Tracker
Davies, Bob             Intel Corp.                First OpenCV installation program, communications with user group, tech. advisor
Delacour, Xavier        ???                        Octave bindings, KD trees/BBF search, some Video I/O components for highgui
Devernay, Frederic      INRIA (?)                  Multiple patches for OpenCV (cvcam, cxcore, cv, highgui).
Dimashova, Maria        Argus CV.                  TrainCascade application and the new object detection class
                                                   cv::CascadeClassifier.
Don Murray              PointGrey                  PointGrey SDK and patches for stereo gesture recognition code
Dubey, Premnath         ???                        Patch for cvcam (Windows version)

Eaton, Daniel           ???                        Texture descriptors code
Eruhimov, Victor        Intel Corp.                Hough & distance transforms, stereo, Hawk, HighGUI,
                                                   One-way descriptor and more ...
Filip, Daniel           Google Inc.                cv::wImage* template image classes

Gaspard Breton          France Telecom             Support for multiple cameras (2,3,4) in SyncFilter and cvcam
Grachev, Ilya           Intel Corp.                TCL/TK demos (cvlkdemo, cvcsdemo, cvenv)
Gruebele, Philip        ???                        Multiple patches for OpenCV
Guhring, Philipp        ???                        Single-object mode in cvHaarDetectObjects

Hafeneger, Stefan       ???                        Some 3D & Calibration related functionality
Halsall, Chris          Open Source Solutions Inc  O-Reilly papers on OpenCV,
                                                   calibration app for Linux (is not supported now?)
                                                   patches for Linux version
Hameed, Shameem         University of Michigan     Haar classifiers for eye detection
Hasler, Nils            Max Planck Institut        16-bit images support, Jasper and OpenEXR bindings in HighGUI

Jacobsen, Jostein       ???                        Hartley/Sturm correction

Kertesz, Csaba          -                          v4l2 interface, bugfixes at almost every area
Khamenya, Valery        BioVisioN AG               OpenCV CVS repository at SourceForge
Khudyakov, Vasily       Novosibirsk University     Face feature detection
Kruppa, Hannes          ETH Zurich                 Haar classifier for fullbody, lowerbody, upperbody detection.
Kuranov, Alexander      Intel Corp.                Matlab wrappers, face detection code, haartraining and related applications 
Kuriakin, Valery        Intel Corp.                Started OpenCV project in Nizhny Novrogod Lab

Lienhart, Rainer        Intel Corp.                Haar feature-based face detection algorithm and the original code;
                                                   Self-similarity features.
Liu Liu                 ???                        SURF, Spill trees, MSERs
Lantz, Philip           Intel Corp.                3d Tracker
Lundin, Magnus          ???                        Patches and new functionality for Linux version of highgui

Molinov, Sergey         Intel Corp.                HMM face recognition code, POSIT, snakes, optical flow, improved face detection, stereo and more ...
Mosyagin, Valery        Intel Corp.                View morphing, camera calibration code (C),
                                                   fundamental matrix estimation
Muehlmann, Karsten      Lehrstuhl fur Informatik V  Another stereo correspondence code (not included yet)
Muja, Marius            Willow Garage Inc.         FLANN bindings
Nefian, Ara             Intel Corp.                Algorithm for HMM face recognition

Oblomov, Sergey         Intel Corp.                Camshift and histogram code, linux scripts and makefiles, optimization and more ...

Pantofaru, Caroline     Willow Garage Inc.         Latex-based OpenCV documentation
Perreault, Simon        Universite Laval           O(1) Median filtering algorithm
Philomin, Vasanth       PHILIPS (?)                Several bug reports/fixes on face detection etc.
Pisarevsky, Vadim       Intel Corp.                OpenCV hacker :)
Pleskov, Alexander      Intel Corp.                Pyramidal segmentation, gesture recognition code, comp. geometry functions

Rodyushkin, Konstantin  Intel Corp.                applications OpenCV to 3dFace caused a few bug reports, functionality proposals,
                                                   blobtrack/vs module in cvaux

Schaefer, Dirk          MD-Mathematische Dienste GmbH  original code for Bayer->RGB pattern conversion
Schiele, Bernt          ETH Zurich                 Haar classifier for fullbody, lowerbody, upperbody detection.
Shavit, Adi             ???                        OpenCV forum moderation, OpenCV logo
Shevtsova, Irina        Moscow State Uni           EM, Bayesian classifier, Random Trees,
                                                   CNN in Machine Learning module; SVM enhancements
Sobolev, Andrey         Moscow State Uni           Contour skeletons and linear-contour model
Stanchak, Roman         Naval Research Lab         Multiple improvements in Highgui (GTK+), Python wrappers and the core functionality
Stavinzky, Jay          ???                        8u->8u L1 Distance transform.
Toderici, George        ???                        Floating-point bilateral filter
Veretennikov, Eugene    Intel Corp.                Testing, some comp. geometry functions
Vezhnevets, Vladimir    MSU Graphics and Media Lab New algorithm for chessboard detection

Zaguskin, Victor        Intel Corp.                cvcam, vmdemo in tcl/tk

Wayne W. Cheng          SoftIntegration            Ch C/C++ intepreter, OpenCV Ch toolbox (proposal + SDK)
Wood, Travis            ???                        Patches for highgui (video capturing in Linux)

OpenCV includes modified versions of the following software:
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+ Gaussian Random Number Generator by George Marsaglia et al. (see cxcore/src/cxrand.cpp)

+ SVD from SLATEC (see cxcore/src/cxsvd.cpp)

+ Small inline math functions and macros by Agner Fog,
    Bruce Holloway et al., Ken Turkowski (see cxcore/include/cxtypes.h)

+ Quicksort implementation from University of California, Berkeley
  (see cxcore/include/cxmisc.h and cxcore/src/cxdatastructs.cpp)

+ Earth Mover Distance and RGB->Lab conversion by Yossi Rubner
  (see cv/src/cvemd.cpp and cv/src/cvcolor.cpp)

Active OpenCV forum participants, bug reporters etc.:
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Barbaresi, Abramo
Betti, Gabriele
Cao, Ning
Cawkwell, Jack
Chen, Gen-Nan
Cheng, Michael
Fritz, Frank
Grossman, Dave
Iannizotto, Giancarlo
Lu, Le
Kunz, Clay
Mellor, J. P.
Ming, Li
Zayed, Mohamed
Rocha, Jairo
Stewart, James Andr
Small, Daniel
Zivkovic, Zoran

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