Mastering OpenCV 4

By : Roy Shilkrot, Millán Escrivá

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Mastering OpenCV 4

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By: Roy Shilkrot, Millán Escrivá

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Overview of this book

Mastering OpenCV, now in its third edition, targets computer vision engineers taking their first steps toward mastering OpenCV. Keeping the mathematical formulations to a solid but bare minimum, the book delivers complete projects from ideation to running code, targeting current hot topics in computer vision such as face recognition, landmark detection and pose estimation, and number recognition with deep convolutional networks. You’ll learn from experienced OpenCV experts how to implement computer vision products and projects both in academia and industry in a comfortable package. You’ll get acquainted with API functionality and gain insights into design choices in a complete computer vision project. You’ll also go beyond the basics of computer vision to implement solutions for complex image processing projects. By the end of the book, you will have created various working prototypes with the help of projects in the book and be well versed with the new features of OpenCV4.

Preface

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Cartoonifier and Skin Color Analysis on the RaspberryPi

Accessing the webcam

Main camera processing loop for a desktop app

Implementation of the skin color changer

Porting from desktop to an embedded device

Summary

Explore Structure from Motion with the SfM Module

Technical requirements

Core concepts of SfM

Implementing SfM in OpenCV

Summary

Face Landmark and Pose with the Face Module

Technical requirements

Theory and context

Facial landmark detection in OpenCV

Estimating face direction from landmarks

Summary

Number Plate Recognition with Deep Convolutional Networks

Introduction to ANPR

ANPR algorithm

Plate detection

Plate recognition

Summary

Face Detection and Recognition with the DNN Module

Introduction to face detection and face recognition

Summary

References

Introduction to Web Computer Vision with OpenCV.js

What is OpenCV.js?

Compile OpenCV.js

Basic introduction to OpenCV.js development

Accessing webcam streams

Image processing and basic user interface

Optical flow in your browser

Face detection using a Haar cascade classifier in your browser

Summary

Android Camera Calibration and AR Using the ArUco Module

Technical requirements

Augmented reality and pose estimation

Camera access in Android OS

Camera calibration with ArUco

Augmented reality with jMonkeyEngine

Summary

iOS Panoramas with the Stitching Module

Technical requirements

Panoramic image stitching methods

Project overview

Setting up an iOS OpenCV project with CocoaPods

iOS UI for panorama capture

OpenCV stitching in an Objective-C++ wrapper

Summary

Who this book is for

This book is targeted at novice computer vision engineers looking to get started with OpenCV, mostly in a C++ environment, with a hands-on approach as opposed to a traditional ground-up knowledge construction. It provides concrete use case examples of the OpenCV API with regard to current common computer vision tasks, while encouraging copy-paste-run and trying to keep the mathematical fundamentals to the bare minimum.

Computer vision engineers nowadays have a wide range of tools and packages to choose from, including OpenCV, dlib, Matlab packages, SimpleCV, XPCV, and scikit-image. None provide better coverage and cross-platform functionality than OpenCV. However, getting started with OpenCV may seem daunting, with many thousands of functions in the official modules' API alone, excluding contributed modules. While many documenting projects exist, beyond OpenCV's own extensive tutorial offerings, most do not cater for an engineer looking to go from start to finish on a project.