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In the console before executing catkin_make try to execute the following

export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local:$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

This should give preference to your custom OpenCV installation when doing the find_package(OpenCV 3.0.0 REQUIRED)

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