OpenCV is great fun and one of the earliest community vision processing toolkits. However Intel started OpenCV with x86 and there has not been very many ports to VxWorks/PowerPC architecture.
But luckily there are many other libraries out there that can work for the 09 Control System.
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The Labview Image Processing Toolkit - probably going to be the easiest to use
* Intel also has a
low-level image processing library for VxWorks
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IPL 98 - independent C++ image processing library
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Matlab Toolbox does not work but its a very popular way to learn image processing