OpenCV By Example

Enhance your understanding of Computer Vision and image processing by developing real-world projects in OpenCV 3

Key Features

• Get to grips with the basics of Computer Vision and image processing
• This is a step-by-step guide to developing several real-world Computer Vision projects using OpenCV 3
• This book takes a special focus on working with Tesseract OCR, a free, open-source library to recognize text in images

Book Description

What you will learn

• Install OpenCV 3 on your operating system
• Create the required CMake scripts to compile the C++ application and manage its dependencies
• Get to grips with the Computer Vision workflows and understand the basic image matrix format and filters
• Understand the segmentation and feature extraction techniques
• Remove backgrounds from a static scene to identify moving objects for video surveillance
• Track different objects in a live video using various techniques
• Use the new OpenCV functions for text detection and recognition with Tesseract

Who this book is for

If you are a software developer with a basic understanding of Computer Vision and image processing and want to develop interesting Computer Vision applications with Open CV, this is the book for you. Knowledge of C++ is required.