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OpenCV By Example

You're reading from   OpenCV By Example Enhance your understanding of Computer Vision and image processing by developing real-world projects in OpenCV 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280948
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinícius G. Mendonça Vinícius G. Mendonça
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David Millán Escrivá David Millán Escrivá
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Prateek Joshi Prateek Joshi
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with OpenCV 2. An Introduction to the Basics of OpenCV FREE CHAPTER 3. Learning the Graphical User Interface and Basic Filtering 4. Delving into Histograms and Filters 5. Automated Optical Inspection, Object Segmentation, and Detection 6. Learning Object Classification 7. Detecting Face Parts and Overlaying Masks 8. Video Surveillance, Background Modeling, and Morphological Operations 9. Learning Object Tracking 10. Developing Segmentation Algorithms for Text Recognition 11. Text Recognition with Tesseract Index

Get your sunglasses on


Now that we understand how to detect faces, we can generalize this concept to detect different parts of the face. We will use an eye detector to overlay sunglasses in a live video. It's important to understand that the Viola-Jones framework can be applied to any object. The accuracy and robustness will depend on the uniqueness of the object. For example, a human face has very unique characteristics, so it's easy to train our system to be robust. On the other hand, an object such as a towel is too generic, and there are no distinguishing characteristics as such. So, it's more difficult to build a robust towel detector.

Once you build the eye detector and overlay glasses on top of it, it will look something like this:

Let's take a look at the main parts of the code:

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    string faceCascadeName = argv[1];
    string eyeCascadeName = argv[2];

    // Variable declarations and initializations
 
    // Face detection code
        
        vector...
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