diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 18872bb3..07e46b1c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -34,3 +34,6 @@
 [submodule "deps/paho.mqtt.cpp"]
 	path = deps/paho.mqtt.cpp
 	url = https://github.com/eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.cpp.git
+[submodule "deps/opencv_contrib"]
+	path = deps/opencv_contrib
+	url = https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib.git
diff --git a/deps/opencv_contrib b/deps/opencv_contrib
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..755e5067
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/opencv_contrib
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 755e50675d97db9b7d449d8bd6b09888646f6c6e