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Intel Edison Projects

You're reading from   Intel Edison Projects Build exciting IoT projects with Intel Edison

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288409
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Avirup Basu Avirup Basu
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Preface 1. Setting up Intel Edison FREE CHAPTER 2. Weather Station (IoT) 3. Intel Edison and IoT (Home Automation) 4. Intel Edison and Security System 5. Autonomous Robotics with Intel Edison 6. Manual Robotics with Intel Edison

Image processing using the Intel Edison

Image processing or computer vision is one such field that requires tremendous amounts of research. However, we're not going to do rocket science here. We are opting for an open source computer vision library called OpenCV. OpenCV supports multiple languages and we are going to use Python as our programming language to perform face detection.

Typically, an image processing application has an input image; we process the input image and we get an output processed image.

Intel Edison doesn't have a display unit. So essentially we will run the Python script on our PC first. Then after the successful working of the code in the PC, we'll modify the code to run on the Edison. Things will get clearer when we do the practical implementation.

Our target is to perform face detection and, if detected, perform some action.

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