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OpenCV Essentials

Acquire, process, and analyze visual content to build full-fledged imaging applications using OpenCV

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|Sep 2014
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Key Features

    Book Description

    This book is intended for C++ developers who want to learn how to implement the main techniques of OpenCV and get started with it quickly. Working experience with computer vision / image processing is expected.

    What you will learn

    • Explore advanced image processing techniques such as the retina algorithm, morphing, and color transfer
    • Create programs using advanced segmentation tools such as the new connectedComponents and connectedComponentsWithStats functions
    • Use flood filling along with the watershed transform to obtain better segmentations
    • Explore the new powerful KAZE features
    • Use advanced videobased background/foreground segmentation for class BackgroundSubtractor and ECCbased warping
    • Leverage the available object detection frameworks and the new scene text detection functionality
    • Get a grasp of advanced topics such as machine learning and GPU optimization

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Getting Started
    2. We Will Need to See Something: Graphical User Interfaces
    3. First Things First: Image processing
    4. What?s In the Image: Segmentation
    5. Focusing On the Interesting: 2D features
    6. Where?s Wally?: Object detection
    7. What Is He Doing?: Motion
    8. Advanced topics
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-425-1
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2014
    Language: English
    Pages: 214