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OpenCV By Example

By : Prateek Joshi, David Millán Escrivá, Vinícius G. Mendonça
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OpenCV By Example

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

Overview of this book

Open CV is a cross-platform, free-for-use library that is primarily used for real-time Computer Vision and image processing. It is considered to be one of the best open source libraries that helps developers focus on constructing complete projects on image processing, motion detection, and image segmentation. Whether you are completely new to the concept of Computer Vision or have a basic understanding of it, this book will be your guide to understanding the basic OpenCV concepts and algorithms through amazing real-world examples and projects. Starting from the installation of OpenCV on your system and understanding the basics of image processing, we swiftly move on to creating optical flow video analysis or text recognition in complex scenes, and will take you through the commonly used Computer Vision techniques to build your own Open CV projects from scratch. By the end of this book, you will be familiar with the basics of Open CV such as matrix operations, filters, and histograms, as well as more advanced concepts such as segmentation, machine learning, complex video analysis, and text recognition.

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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
OpenCV By Example
OpenCV By Example
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with OpenCV
Getting Started with OpenCV
Understanding the human visual system
How do humans understand image content?
What can you do with OpenCV?
Installing OpenCV
Summary
2
An Introduction to the Basics of OpenCV
An Introduction to the Basics of OpenCV
Basic CMake configuration files
Creating a library
Managing dependencies
Making the script more complex
Images and matrices
Reading/writing images
Reading videos and cameras
Other basic object types
Basic matrix operations
Basic data persistence and storage
Summary
3
Learning the Graphical User Interface and Basic Filtering
Learning the Graphical User Interface and Basic Filtering
Introducing the OpenCV user interface
A basic graphical user interface with OpenCV
The graphical user interface with QT
Adding slider and mouse events to our interfaces
Adding buttons to a user interface
OpenGL support
Summary
4
Delving into Histograms and Filters
Delving into Histograms and Filters
Generating a CMake script file
Creating the Graphical User Interface
Drawing a histogram
Image color equalization
Lomography effect
The cartoonize effect
Summary
5
Automated Optical Inspection, Object Segmentation, and Detection
Automated Optical Inspection, Object Segmentation, and Detection
Isolating objects in a scene
Creating an application for AOI
Preprocessing the input image
Segmenting our input image
Summary
6
Learning Object Classification
Learning Object Classification
Introducing machine learning concepts
Computer Vision and the machine learning workflow
Automatic object inspection classification example
Feature extraction
Summary
7
Detecting Face Parts and Overlaying Masks
Detecting Face Parts and Overlaying Masks
Understanding Haar cascades
What are integral images?
Overlaying a facemask in a live video
Get your sunglasses on
Tracking your nose, mouth, and ears
Summary
8
Video Surveillance, Background Modeling, and Morphological Operations
Video Surveillance, Background Modeling, and Morphological Operations
Understanding background subtraction
Naive background subtraction
Frame differencing
The Mixture of Gaussians approach
Morphological image processing
Slimming the shapes
Thickening the shapes
Other morphological operators
Summary
9
Learning Object Tracking
Learning Object Tracking
Tracking objects of a specific color
Building an interactive object tracker
Detecting points using the Harris corner detector
Shi-Tomasi Corner Detector
Feature-based tracking
Summary
10
Developing Segmentation Algorithms for Text Recognition
Developing Segmentation Algorithms for Text Recognition
Introducing optical character recognition
The preprocessing step
Installing Tesseract OCR on your operating system
Using Tesseract OCR library
Summary
11
Text Recognition with Tesseract
Text Recognition with Tesseract
How the text API works
Using the text API
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 11. Text Recognition with Tesseract

In the previous chapter, we covered the very basic OCR processing functions. Although they are quite useful for scanned or photographed documents, they are almost useless when dealing with text that casually appears in a picture.

In this chapter, we'll explore the OpenCV 3.0 text module, which deals specifically with scene text detection. Using this API, it is possible to detect text that appears in a webcam video, or to analyze photographed images (like the ones in Street View or taken by a surveillance camera) to extract text information in real time. This allows a wide range of applications to be created, from accessibility to marketing and even robotics fields.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Understand what is scene text recognition

  • Understand how the text API works

  • Use the OpenCV 3.0 text API to detect text

  • Extract the detected text to an image

  • Use the text API and Tesseract integration to identify letters

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