Creating Our First Qt and OpenCV Project

It's been a long time since the Qt and OpenCV frameworks were introduced to the open source community and the world, but it wasn't until recently that people started noticing the benefits of using the two together, and the combination became popular among computer vision experts. We're in luck since we are at a phase in the history of these two frameworks where they both have been grown enough to be combined very easily, with little or no effort. There are also no more questions about the stability of these frameworks, and they are sometimes used to build applications running on quite sensitive hardware. Even a brief search on the internet would prove this. As we'll learn in this chapter, Qt Creator has become an almost fully-grown IDE, and it provides very easy mechanisms to integrate and build computer vision applications...