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Computer Vision with OpenCV 3 and Qt5

By : Amin Ahmadi Tazehkandi
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Book Image

Computer Vision with OpenCV 3 and Qt5

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By: Amin Ahmadi Tazehkandi

Overview of this book

Developers have been using OpenCV library to develop computer vision applications for a long time. However, they now need a more effective tool to get the job done and in a much better and modern way. Qt is one of the major frameworks available for this task at the moment. This book will teach you to develop applications with the combination of OpenCV 3 and Qt5, and how to create cross-platform computer vision applications. We’ll begin by introducing Qt, its IDE, and its SDK. Next you’ll learn how to use the OpenCV API to integrate both tools, and see how to configure Qt to use OpenCV. You’ll go on to build a full-fledged computer vision application throughout the book. Later, you’ll create a stunning UI application using the Qt widgets technology, where you’ll display the images after they are processed in an efficient way. At the end of the book, you’ll learn how to convert OpenCV Mat to Qt QImage. You’ll also see how to efficiently process images to filter them, transform them, detect or track objects as well as analyze video. You’ll become better at developing OpenCV applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface

Qt Resource System


In the next sections, you will learn how to add styling and multi-language support to our applications, but, before that, we must be familiar with the Qt Resource System. Simply put, it is the means in Qt to add resource files such as fonts, icons, images, translation files, style sheet files, and so on into our applications (and libraries).

Qt supports management using the *.qrc files (Resource Collection Files), which are simply XML files that include information about resource files that need to be included in our applications. Let's go through a simple example and include an icon in our Hello_Qt_openCV application to better understand how the Qt Resource System works:

  1. Make sure you have the Hello_Qt_OpenCV project opened in Qt Creator. Select File and then New File or Project. In the new file window, make sure you select Qt from the second list on the left and then Qt Resource File. Consider the following screenshot:
  1. Click on the Choose... button, and in the next screen...