So, we come to the last section of the very first chapter. I will keep it short and to the point since you as a reader can safely skip it. The topic of our discussion is OpenCV 4.0.
OpenCV 4.0 is a result of three and a half years of hard work and bug fixes by OpenCV and was finally released in November 2018. In this section, we will look at some of the major changes and new features in OpenCV 4.0:
- With the OpenCV 4.0 release, OpenCV has officially become a C++11 library. This means that you have to make sure that a C++11 compliant compiler is present in your system when you are trying to compile OpenCV 4.0.
- In continuation of the previous point, a lot of C APIs have been removed. Some of the modules that have been affected include Video IO module (videoio), Object Detection module (objdetect), and others. File IO for XML, YAML, and JSON have also...
