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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

Behind the scenes


In Chapter 2, Creating Our First Qt and OpenCV Project, you learned how to create a simple Qt+OpenCV application called Hello_Qt_OpenCV. This project included almost all of the basic features provided by Qt, although we didn't go into too much detail on how our project was built into an application with a user interface and an (almost acceptable) behavior. In this section, you will learn about what went on behind the scenes when we clicked on the Run button. This will help us with a better understanding of the structure of a Qt project and what the purpose of each file in the project folder is. Let's start by opening the project folder and going through the few files one by one. So, we have the following in the Hello_Qt_OpenCV folder:

    Hello_Qt_OpenCV.pro 
    Hello_Qt_OpenCV.pro.user 
    main.cpp 
    mainwindow.cpp 
    mainwindow.h 
    mainwindow.ui 

The first file in the Hello_Qt_OpenCV.pro list is basically the first file that is processed by Qt when our project...