(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

People who helped to improve OpenCV a lot
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Name                  Company (by the moment       Remarks
                    of contribution/cooperation)

Alekseev, Aleksey       Intel Corp.                IppCV testing
Boldyrev, Sergey        Intel Corp.                rpm spec & linux makefiles
Bradley, David          Princeton Univ.            Haar classifier for profile faces
Breen, Ed               ???                        EiC intepreter, used for Hawk
Devernay, Frederic      INRIA (?)                  Multiple patches for OpenCV (cvcam, cxcore, cv, highgui).
Don Murray              PointGrey                  PointGrey SDK and patches for stereo gesture recognition code
Dubey, Premnath         ???                        Patch for cvcam (Windows version)
Gruebele, Philip        ???                        Multiple patches for OpenCV
Halsall, Chris          Open Source Solutions Inc  O-Reilly papers on OpenCV,
                                                   calibration app for Linux (is not supported now?)
                                                   patches for Linux version
Khamenya, Valery        BioVisioN AG               OpenCV CVS repository at SourceForge
Kruppa, Hannes          ETH Zurich                 Haar classifier for fullbody, lowerbody, upperbody detection.
Lundin, Magnus          ???                        Patches and new functionality for Linux version of highgui
Muehlmann, Karsten      Lehrstuhl fur Informatik V  Another stereo correspondence code (not included yet)
Philomin, Vasanth       PHILIPS (?)                Several bug reports/fixes on face detection etc.
Rodyushkin, Konstantin  Intel Corp.                applications OpenCV to 3dFace caused a few bug reports, functionality proposals
Schaefer, Dirk          MD-Mathematische Dienste GmbH  original code for Bayer->RGB pattern conversion
Schiele, Bernt          ETH Zurich                 Haar classifier for fullbody, lowerbody, upperbody detection.
Veretennikov, Eugene    Intel Corp.                Testing, comp. geometry functions
Vezhnevets, Vladimir    ???                        New algorithm for chessboard detection
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:
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(!TODO: more info needed)

Barbaresi, Abramo
Betti, Gabriele
Cao, Ning
Cawkwell, Jack
Chen, Gen-Nan
Cheng, Michael
Fritz, Frank
Iannizotto, Giancarlo
Lu, Le
Kunz, Clay
Mellor, J. P.
Ming, Li
Philomin, Vasanth
Zayed, Mohamed
Rocha, Jairo
Stewart, James Andr.

BUG reports:
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(see also ChangeLog)
Rocha, Carlos Andres
Small, Daniel;
Shavit, Adi
Zivkovic, Zoran
and other people from OpenCV forum at www.yahoogroups.com

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