Learning OpenCV---Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library (Bradski, G.R. et al.; 2008)[On the Shelf]

This is an introductory textbook for teachers, students, professionals, and hobbyists who want to learn the basics of computer vision. The book is completely based around the OpenCV library, an open source project that started in 1999 by the computer-vision community. The authors of the text are among the principal contributors to this real-time library that has developed in C/C++ to run Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Although it is unashamedly a promotion for the open-source library, it is still a worthy educational text.