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Mastering OpenCV 4 - Third Edition

By : Roy Shilkrot, David Millán Escrivá
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Mastering OpenCV 4 - Third Edition

By: Roy Shilkrot, David Millán Escrivá

Overview of this book

Mastering OpenCV, now in its third edition, targets computer vision engineers taking their first steps toward mastering OpenCV. Keeping the mathematical formulations to a solid but bare minimum, the book delivers complete projects from ideation to running code, targeting current hot topics in computer vision such as face recognition, landmark detection and pose estimation, and number recognition with deep convolutional networks. You’ll learn from experienced OpenCV experts how to implement computer vision products and projects both in academia and industry in a comfortable package. You’ll get acquainted with API functionality and gain insights into design choices in a complete computer vision project. You’ll also go beyond the basics of computer vision to implement solutions for complex image processing projects. By the end of the book, you will have created various working prototypes with the help of projects in the book and be well versed with the new features of OpenCV4.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we've learned about panorama creation. We've seen some of the underlying theory and practice in panorama creation, implemented in OpenCV's stitching module. We then turned our focus to creating an iOS application that helps a user to capture images for panorama stitching with overlapping views. Lastly, we saw how to invoke OpenCV code from a Swift application to run the stitching functions on the captures images, resulting in a finished panorama.

The next chapter will focus on selection strategies for OpenCV algorithms given a problem at hand. We will see how to reason about a computer vision problem and its solution offering in OpenCV, as well as how to compare competing algorithms in order to make informed selections.