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OpenCV for Secret Agents

OpenCV for Secret Agents

By : Joseph Howse
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OpenCV for Secret Agents

OpenCV for Secret Agents

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By: Joseph Howse
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Overview of this book

This book is for programmers who want to expand their skills by building fun, smart, and useful systems with OpenCV. The projects are ideal in helping you to think creatively about the uses of computer vision, natural user interfaces, and ubiquitous computers (in your home, car, and hand).
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Preparing for the Mission
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1. Preparing for the Mission
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Setting up a development machine
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Setting up Raspberry Pi
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Finding OpenCV documentation, help, and updates
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Alternatives to Raspberry Pi
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Summary
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2. Searching for Luxury Accommodations Worldwide
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2. Searching for Luxury Accommodations Worldwide
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Planning the Luxocator app
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Creating, comparing, and storing histograms
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Training the classifier with reference images
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Acquiring images from the Web
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Acquiring images from Bing image search
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Preparing images and resources for the app
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Integrating everything into the GUI
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Building Luxocator for distribution
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3. Training a Smart Alarm to Recognize the Villain and His Cat
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3. Training a Smart Alarm to Recognize the Villain and His Cat
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Understanding machine learning in general
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Planning the Interactive Recognizer app
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Understanding Haar cascades and LBPH
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Implementing the Interactive Recognizer app
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Planning the cat detection model
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Implementing the training script for the cat detection model
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Planning the Angora Blue app
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Implementing the Angora Blue app
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Building Angora Blue for distribution
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Further fun with finding felines
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4. Controlling a Phone App with Your Suave Gestures
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4. Controlling a Phone App with Your Suave Gestures
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Planning the Goldgesture app
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Understanding optical flow
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Setting up the Eclipse Workspace
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Getting a cascade file and audio files
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Specifying the app's requirements
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Laying out a camera preview as the main view
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Tracking back and forth gestures
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Playing audio clips as questions and answers
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Capturing images and tracking faces in an activity
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5. Equipping Your Car with a Rearview Camera and Hazard Detection
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5. Equipping Your Car with a Rearview Camera and Hazard Detection
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Planning The Living Headlights app
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Detecting lights as blobs
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Estimating distances (a cheap approach)
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Implementing The Living Headlights app
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Testing The Living Headlights app at home
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Testing The Living Headlights app in a car
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6. Seeing a Heartbeat with a Motion Amplifying Camera
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6. Seeing a Heartbeat with a Motion Amplifying Camera
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Planning the Lazy Eyes app
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Understanding what Eulerian video magnification can do
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Extracting repeating signals from video using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
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Compositing two images using image pyramids
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Implementing the Lazy Eyes app
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Configuring and testing the app for various motions
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Seeing things in another light
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7. Creating a Physics Simulation Based on a Pen and Paper Sketch
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7. Creating a Physics Simulation Based on a Pen and Paper Sketch
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Planning the Rollingball app
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Detecting circles and lines
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Setting up OpenCV for Unity
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Configuring and building the Unity project
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Creating the Rollingball scene in Unity
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Creating Unity assets and adding them to the scene
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Tidying up and testing
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Index

Chapter 2. Searching for Luxury Accommodations Worldwide

Today the bridal suite, tomorrow a prison. A secret agent's sleeping arrangements are horribly unpredictable.

Each day someone in MI6 gets the job of booking a stellar hotel room and conversely, some evil henchman has to pick a warehouse or dilapidated apartment, plus a lamp, a chair, and implements of bondage. For mini missions or brief beatings, it is tolerable to leave the choice of venue to a fallible human being. However, for long-term rentals or acquisitions, would it not be wiser to develop a specialized search engine that takes the legwork and the guesswork out of the equation?

With this motivation, we are going to develop a desktop app called Luxocator: The Luxury Locator. This is a search engine that will find images on the web by keyword search and will classify each image as a "Luxury, interior" scene, "Luxury, exterior" scene, "Stalinist, interior" scene, or "Stalinist,...

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