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Qt 5 and OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Projects

You're reading from   Qt 5 and OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Projects Get up to speed with cross-platform computer vision app development by building seven practical projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532586
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zhuo Qingliang Zhuo Qingliang
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building an Image Viewer 2. Editing Images Like a Pro FREE CHAPTER 3. Home Security Applications 4. Fun with Faces 5. Optical Character Recognition 6. Object Detection in Real Time 7. Real-Time Car Detection and Distance Measurement 8. Using OpenGL for the High-Speed Filtering of Images 9. Assessments 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding features using Qt's plugin mechanism

In the previous section, we added a new menu and toolbar named Edit to our application and added an action to both of them to blur the opening image. Let's recall the progress of adding this feature.

First, we added the menu and toolbar, and then the action. After the action was added, we connected a new slot to the action. In the slot, we got the opening image as an instance of QPixmap and converted it into a QImage object, and then a Mat object. The crucial editing work began here—we used OpenCV to modify the Mat instance to get the editing work done. Then, we converted Mat back into QImage and QPixmap accordingly to show the edited image.

Now, if we want to add another editing feature to our app, what should we do? Of course, just repeating the preceding process of adding the blurring action is fine, but it's...

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Qt 5 and OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Projects
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