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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

Shi-Tomasi Corner Detector


The Harris corner detector performs well in many cases, but it can still be improved. Around six years after the original paper by Harris and Stephens, Shi-Tomasi came up with something better and they called it Good Features To Track. You can read the original paper at: http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.891/handouts/shi94good.pdf. They used a different scoring function to improve the overall quality. Using this method, we can find the N strongest corners in the given image. This is very useful when we don't want to use every single corner to extract information from the image. As discussed earlier, a good interest point detector is very useful in applications, such as object tracking, object recognition, image search, and so on.

If you apply the Shi-Tomasi corner detector to an image, you will see something like this:

As you can see here, all the important points in the frame are captured. Let's take a look at the following code to track these features:

int main(int...
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