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Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3

Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3

By : Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino
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Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3

Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3

4.1 (14)
By: Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino

Overview of this book

Computer vision is a rapidly evolving science, encompassing diverse applications and techniques. This book will not only help those who are getting started with computer vision but also experts in the domain. You’ll be able to put theory into practice by building apps with OpenCV 4 and Python 3. You’ll start by understanding OpenCV 4 and how to set it up with Python 3 on various platforms. Next, you’ll learn how to perform basic operations such as reading, writing, manipulating, and displaying still images, videos, and camera feeds. From taking you through image processing, video analysis, and depth estimation and segmentation, to helping you gain practice by building a GUI app, this book ensures you’ll have opportunities for hands-on activities. Next, you’ll tackle two popular challenges: face detection and face recognition. You’ll also learn about object classification and machine learning concepts, which will enable you to create and use object detectors and classifiers, and even track objects in movies or video camera feed. Later, you’ll develop your skills in 3D tracking and augmented reality. Finally, you’ll cover ANNs and DNNs, learning how to develop apps for recognizing handwritten digits and classifying a person's gender and age. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to execute real-world computer vision projects.
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Using OpenCV to perform face detection

With cv2.CascadeClassifier, it makes little difference whether we perform face detection on a still image or a video feed. The latter is just a sequential version of the former: face detection on a video is simply face detection applied to each frame. Naturally, with more advanced techniques, it would be possible to track a detected face continuously across multiple frames and determine that the face is the same one in each frame. However, it is good to know that a basic sequential approach also works.

Let's go ahead and detect some faces.

Performing face detection on a still image

The first and most basic way to perform face detection is to load an image and detect faces in it...

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