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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

Creating the foundations


Everything you learned in this was meant to make you ready to start building a comprehensive computer vision application that will do the following:

  • Use plugins to extend its capabilities
  • Use Qt style sheets to customize its look and feel
  • Support multiple languages

So, starting from now we will create the foundations of our application by taking into consideration all the facts that you learned in this chapter and the previous chapters, such as the following:

  • Our application will be able to save and load all user preferences and settings. We will make it happen by using the QSettings class, which you already learned how to use.
  • It's best to have a centralized and single Qt style sheet that takes care of our application's overall look and feel, and better yet, loaded from the disk instead of embedding it into the application itself.

Note

To achieve this, we will simply assume that our application has a native look unless the user manually selects a theme from the settings...