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Building Computer Vision Projects with OpenCV 4 and C++

By : David Millán Escrivá, Prateek Joshi, Vinícius G. Mendonça, Roy Shilkrot
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Building Computer Vision Projects with OpenCV 4 and C++

By: David Millán Escrivá, Prateek Joshi, Vinícius G. Mendonça, Roy Shilkrot

Overview of this book

OpenCV is one of the best open source libraries available and can help you focus on constructing complete projects on image processing, motion detection, and image segmentation. This Learning Path is your guide to understanding OpenCV concepts and algorithms through real-world examples and activities. Through various projects, you'll also discover how to use complex computer vision and machine learning algorithms and face detection to extract the maximum amount of information from images and videos. In later chapters, you'll learn to enhance your videos and images with optical flow analysis and background subtraction. Sections in the Learning Path will help you get to grips with text segmentation and recognition, in addition to guiding you through the basics of the new and improved deep learning modules. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have mastered commonly used computer vision techniques to build OpenCV projects from scratch. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt books: •Mastering OpenCV 4 - Third Edition by Roy Shilkrot and David Millán Escrivá •Learn OpenCV 4 By Building Projects - Second Edition by David Millán Escrivá, Vinícius G. Mendonça, and Prateek Joshi
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Generating a CMake script file


Before we start creating our source file, we are going to generate the CMakeLists.txt file to allow us to compile our project, structure it, and execute it. The following CMake script is simple and basic but enough to compile and generate the executable:

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.0)

PROJECT(Chapter4_Phototool)

set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)

# Requires OpenCV
FIND_PACKAGE( OpenCV 4.0.0 REQUIRED )
MESSAGE("OpenCV version : ${OpenCV_VERSION}")

include_directories(${OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS})
link_directories(${OpenCV_LIB_DIR})

ADD_EXECUTABLE(${PROJECT_NAME} main.cpp)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${PROJECT_NAME} ${OpenCV_LIBS})

The first line indicates the minimum CMake version required to generate our project, the second one sets the project name that we can use as the ${PROJECT_NAME} variable, and the third one sets the required C++ version; in our case, we require the C++11 version, as we can see in the next snippet:

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.0)

PROJECT...