OpenCV 3.1 installation on Ubuntu

install_opencv.sh

# KEEP UBUNTU OR DEBIAN UP TO DATE

 sudo apt-get -y update
 sudo apt-get -y upgrade
 sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
 sudo apt-get -y autoremove

 #INSTALL THE DEPENDENCIES


 # Build tools:

 sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake

 # GUI:

 sudo apt-get install -y qt5-default libvtk6-dev libgtk2.0-dev


 # Media I/O:

 sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev libwebp-dev libpng-dev libtiff5-dev libjasper-dev libopenexr-dev libgdal-dev


 # Video I/O:

 sudo apt-get install -y libdc1394-22-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev yasm libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libv4l-dev libxine2-dev


 # Parallelism and linear algebra libraries:

 sudo apt-get install -y libtbb-dev libeigen3-dev

 # Optimize various functions inside OpenCV, such as matrix operations
 
 sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran

 # Python:

 sudo apt-get install -y python-dev python-tk python-numpy python3-dev python3-tk python3-numpy


 # Java:

 sudo apt-get install -y ant default-jdk


 # Documentation:

 sudo apt-get install -y doxygen

# CLONE REPOS
cd ~/gitrepos

git clone git@github.com:opencv/opencv.git
cd opencv
git checkout 3.1.0


git clone git@github.com:opencv/opencv_contrib.git
cd opencv_contrib
git checkout 3.1.0

 # INSTALL THE LIBRARY

cd ~/gitrepos/opencv
rm -rf build/
 mkdir build
 cd build
  cmake \
 -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \
 -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
 -D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=OFF \
 -D BUILD_DOCS=ON \
 -D PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python3.5 \
 -D PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR2=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/python3.5m/ \
 -D PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/home/adam/VEnvs/cv/bin/python \
 -D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=/home/adam/gitrepos/opencv_contrib/modules \
 -D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON \
 -D WITH_QT=ON \
 -D WITH_OPENGL=ON \
 -D FORCE_VTK=ON \
 -D WITH_TBB=ON \
 -D WITH_GDAL=ON \
 -D WITH_XINE=ON \
 -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON \
 -D BUILD_opencv_java=OFF \
 ..
 
 make -j7
 sudo make install
 sudo ldconfig

In case of not detected hdf5.h file:

Append

find_package(HDF5)
include_directories(${HDF5_INCLUDE_DIRS})

to modules/python/common.cmake