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Learn OpenCV 4 by Building Projects

Learn OpenCV 4 by Building Projects

By : Millán Escrivá, Vinícius G. Mendonça, Joshi
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Learn OpenCV 4 by Building Projects

Learn OpenCV 4 by Building Projects

2.5 (2)
By: Millán Escrivá, Vinícius G. Mendonça, Joshi

Overview of this book

OpenCV is one of the best open source libraries available, and can help you focus on constructing complete projects on image processing, motion detection, and image segmentation. Whether you’re completely new to computer vision, or have a basic understanding of its concepts, Learn OpenCV 4 by Building Projects – Second edition will be your guide to understanding OpenCV concepts and algorithms through real-world examples and projects. You’ll begin with the installation of OpenCV and the basics of image processing. Then, you’ll cover user interfaces and get deeper into image processing. As you progress through the book, you'll learn complex computer vision algorithms and explore machine learning and face detection. The book then guides you in creating optical flow video analysis and background subtraction in complex scenes. In the concluding chapters, you'll also learn about text segmentation and recognition and understand the basics of the new and improved deep learning module. By the end of this book, you'll be familiar with the basics of Open CV, such as matrix operations, filters, and histograms, and you'll have mastered commonly used computer vision techniques to build OpenCV projects from scratch.
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Get your sunglasses on

Now that we understand how to detect faces, we can generalize that concept to detect different parts of the face. We will be using an eye detector to overlay sunglasses in a live video. It's important to understand that the Viola-Jones framework can be applied to any object. The accuracy and robustness will depend on the uniqueness of the object. For example, the human face has very unique characteristics, so it's easy to train our system to be robust. On the other hand, an object such as a towel is too generic, and it has no distinguishing characteristics as such, so it's more difficult to build a robust towel detector. Once you build the eye detector and overlay the glasses, it will look something like this:

Let's look at the main parts of the code:

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int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { string faceCascadeName = argv[1]; ...

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