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OpenCV 3 Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook

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Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786469717

Length 474 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

OpenCV

Concepts

Computer Vision

Author (1):

Robert Laganiere

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Playing with Images FREE CHAPTER

2. Manipulating Pixels

3. Processing the Colors of an Image

4. Counting the Pixels with Histograms

5. Transforming Images with Morphological Operations

6. Filtering the Images

7. Extracting Lines, Contours, and Components

8. Detecting Interest Points

9. Describing and Matching Interest Points

10. Estimating Projective Relations in Images

11. Reconstructing 3D Scenes

12. Processing Video Sequences

13. Tracking Visual Motion

14. Learning from Examples

Chapter 1. Playing with Images

In this chapter, we will get you started with the OpenCV library. You will learn how to perform the following tasks:

Installing the OpenCV library
Loading, displaying, and saving images
Exploring the cv::Mat data structure
Defining regions of interest

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Authors (1)

Robert Laganiere

Robert Laganiere

Robert Laganiere is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is also a faculty member of the VIVA research lab and is the co-author of several scientific publications and patents in content based video analysis, visual surveillance, driver-assistance, object detection, and tracking. Robert authored the OpenCV2 Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook in 2011 and co-authored Object Oriented Software Development published by McGraw Hill in 2001. He co-founded Visual Cortek in 2006, an Ottawa-based video analytics start-up that was later acquired by iwatchlife.com in 2009. He is also a consultant in computer vision and has assumed the role of Chief Scientist in a number of start-up companies such as Cognivue Corp, iWatchlife, and Tempo Analytics. Robert has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal (1987) and MSc and PhD degrees from INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal (1996). You can visit the author’s website at laganiere.name.

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