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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

Computer vision and the machine learning workflow 


Computer vision applications with machine learning have a common basic structure. This structure is divided into different steps:

  1. Pre-process
  2. Segmentation
  3. Feature extraction
  4. Classification result
  5. Post-process

These are common in almost all computer vision applications, while others are omitted. In the following diagram, you can see the different steps that are involved:

Almost all computer vision applications start with a Pre-process applied to the input image, which consists of the removal of light and noise, filtering, blurring, and so on. After applying all pre-processing required to the input image, the second step is Segmentation. In this step, we have to extract the regions of interest in the image and isolate each one as a unique object of interest. For example, in a face detection system, we have to separate the faces from the rest of the parts in the scene. After detecting the objects inside the image, we continue to the next step. Here...