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Learn OpenCV 4 By Building Projects - Second Edition

By : David Millán Escrivá, Vinícius G. Mendonça, Prateek Joshi
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Learn OpenCV 4 By Building Projects - Second Edition

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

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. Whether you’re completely new to computer vision, or have a basic understanding of its concepts, Learn OpenCV 4 by Building Projects – Second edition will be your guide to understanding OpenCV concepts and algorithms through real-world examples and projects. You’ll begin with the installation of OpenCV and the basics of image processing. Then, you’ll cover user interfaces and get deeper into image processing. As you progress through the book, you'll learn complex computer vision algorithms and explore machine learning and face detection. The book then guides you in creating optical flow video analysis and background subtraction in complex scenes. In the concluding chapters, you'll also learn about text segmentation and recognition and understand the basics of the new and improved deep learning module. By the end of this book, you'll be familiar with the basics of Open CV, such as matrix operations, filters, and histograms, and you'll have mastered commonly used computer vision techniques to build OpenCV projects from scratch.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Reading videos and cameras

This section introduces you to video and camera reading using this simple example. Before explaining how to read videos or camera input, we want to introduce a new, very useful class that helps us to manage the input command-line parameters. This new class was introduced in OpenCV version 3.0, and is the CommandLineParser class:

// OpenCV command line parser functions 
// Keys accepted by command line parser 
const char* keys = 
{ 
   "{help h usage ? | | print this message}" 
    "{@video | | Video file, if not defined try to use webcamera}" 
}; 

The first thing that we have to do for CommandLineParser is define what parameters we need or allow in a constant char vector; each line has the following pattern:

"{name_param | default_value | description}"

name_param can be preceded with @, which defines this parameter as a...