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Computer Vision with OpenCV 3 and Qt5

By : Amin Ahmadi Tazehkandi
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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

The HighGUI module in OpenCV


The HighGUI module in OpenCV is responsible for quick and simple GUIs. We already used one of the widely used functions within this module, imshow, to quickly display images in Chapter 3, Creating a Comprehensive Qt+OpenCV Project, of this book. But, as we are going to learn about Qt and a more sophisticated framework for dealing with GUI creation, we are going to skip this module completely and move on to Qt subjects. However, just before that, it's worth quoting the introduction of the HighGUI module in the OpenCV documentation:

"While OpenCV was designed for use in full-scale applications and can be used within functionally rich UI frameworks (such as Qt\*, WinForms\*, or Cocoa\*) or without any UI at all, sometimes there it is required to try functionality quickly and visualize the results. This is what the HighGUI module has been designed for."

As you'll learn later on in this chapter, we'll also stop using the imshow function and stick to Qt capabilities...