Fix a bug in the er tree clean-up process (see discussion in https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/pull/1520). It's not necessary to walk the er tree in order to clean up the memory since it's possible to cleanup the regions in the stack just by iterating over the er_stack vector instead of walking the tree structure. This turns out to be safer because the tree structure of those regions may have been modified previously in er_save function.

Updated documentation and sample to use the new function API

findHomagraphy can return empty Mat in master branch

Currently, there are different default typedefs for Point_, Size_, and Rect_. This pull request at least makes sure that default typedefs exist for int, float and double variants of each of these types.

GSoC Python Tutorials

removed white spaces

removed blank lines at EOF

removed duplicate labels

This makes them visible from the python bindings

Changed the signature of the minEnclosingTriangle function such that it returns the area automatically. Moreover, the overloaded function was no longer required so it was removed. Sample code, documentation and unit tests were updated correspondingly.

Removed the cvMinEnclosingTriangle function since the C API will be deprecated starting with OpenCV 3.0

Added erGrouping function: Find groups of Extremal Regions that are organized as text blocks. Updated sample/cpp to use the complete text detection pipeline

Added a namespace and prefixed global variables with "G_" in order to prevent variable shadowing problems.

* Corrected minor typos in comments/function signatures
* Added new details to copyright statement
* Removed unreferenced macros
* Removed the assert statement which was checking the type of the OutputArray triangle
* When returning results using Mat::copyTo instead of Mat::convertTo
* Changed C-style casts to static_casts
* Added division by zero check to distanceFromPointToLine() function
* Updated reference webpages last access dates
* Moved the declaration of the gammaOfA variable outside the while loop in moveAIfLowAndBIfHigh() function for efficiency reasons