modified SIFT to 1) double image before finding keypoints, 2) use floating-point internally instead of 16-bit integers, 3) set the keypoint response to the abs(interpolated_DoG_value). step 1) increases the number of detected keypoints significantly and together with 2) and 3) it improves some detection benchmarks. On the other hand, the stability of the small keypoints is lower, so the rotation and scale invariance tests now struggle a bit. In 2.5 need to make this feature optional and add some more intelligence to the algorithm.

added test that finds a planar object using SIFT.

hopefully fixed handling of 'long' Python type in OpenCV bindings (bug #2193). added the corresponding test

Extended python bindings to support scalar values and tuples in place of InputArray (i.e. Mat) - ticket #2658. Added tests for #2611, #2505, #2658

Extended python bindings to support scalar values and tuples in place of InputArray (i.e. Mat) - ticket #2658. Added tests for #2611, #2505, #2658

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This should be safe todo unless we are writing a signal handler.

xioctl() assumes that ioctl takes int request. Cope with
  int ioctl(int d, unsigned long request, ...)
to avoid "invalid argument".

* Decouple Video4Linux2 support from Video4Linux as existence of
  v4l2 on a system does not imply support for v4l.
* Don't use V4L's struct video_window in V4L2 code.
* Removed __USE_GNU as comment says:
      /* support for MJPEG is only available with libjpeg and gcc,
         because it's use libjepg and fmemopen()
  so replace with test for fmemopen() if found necessary.

The video(4) driver provides a Video4Linux2 compatible API for
various video peripherals. This patch propagates HAVE_VIDEOIO if
the sys/videoio.h include file is found, which is the signature of
video(4).