Last fall I was using the arrecog package with nolan3d to do AR tag recognition and following (using fuerte on Ubuntu 12.04). Recently I tried to re-install that package with groovy and found out that cvbridge had been updated and the CvBridge.h file that arrecog is looking for does not exist. Today I found out that arpose also will not complete a rosmake due to a dependency on CvBridge.h. I understand the need to update cvbridge, my question is, has anyone gone back to change the AR tag packages to make them run with the new version of cvbridge?

I looked into it a little and it seems like the fix would be non-trivial to change the software from using IplImage* as the data format to cv::Mat. This page has information about the change that was made in cvbridge, and this page has the code for arrecog.cpp.

Anyway, if anyone is currently working around this issue or has suggestions for another package that will help with tag recognition and pose and works with the current cv_bridge package please reply.