Re:ANother feeble attempt.. (Score 1)

I need it. Students build on it to code projects for our class on Digital Video Special Effects. Without it, they'd spend the whole semester re-inventing old "stuff."

There is actually a long history of trying to develop "the" computer-vision library, but this one actually has an impressive cross-platform user base. To my knowledge, the 2nd most popular library is the Microsoft Vision SDK.