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OpenCV 4 for Secret Agents

You're reading from   OpenCV 4 for Secret Agents Use OpenCV 4 in secret projects to classify cats, reveal the unseen, and react to rogue drivers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789345360
Length 336 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Joseph Howse Joseph Howse
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Arun Ponnusamy Arun Ponnusamy
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Briefing FREE CHAPTER
2. Preparing for the Mission 3. Searching for Luxury Accommodations Worldwide 4. Section 2: The Chase
5. Training a Smart Alarm to Recognize the Villain and His Cat 6. Controlling a Phone App with Your Suave Gestures 7. Equipping Your Car with a Rearview Camera and Hazard Detection 8. Creating a Physics Simulation Based on a Pen and Paper Sketch 9. Section 3: The Big Reveal
10. Seeing a Heartbeat with a Motion-Amplifying Camera 11. Stopping Time and Seeing like a Bee 12. Making WxUtils.py Compatible with Raspberry Pi
13. Learning More about Feature Detection in OpenCV
14. Running with Snakes (or, First Steps with Python)
15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Controlling a Phone App with Your Suave Gestures

"You've got all the moves."
- Lani Hall, Never Say Never Again (1983)

He raises an eyebrow; he lowers his chin; he twists the corners of his mouth; he folds one arm into the crook of the other as he points his pistol at the ceiling. It all looks very impressive, but is he simply wasting time while trying to remember people's names?

Agent 007 has a few old friends with normal names, such as Bill Tanner and Felix Leiter. Almost every other name is a number, a single letter, a mash-up of multiple languages, or a blindingly obvious double entendre. After a few vodka martinis and tranquilizer darts, any man would start to wonder whether his memory for names was playing tricks on him.

To put such doubts to rest, we will develop an Android app that determines a person's name based on a series...

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