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OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : David Millán Escrivá, Robert Laganiere
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OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: David Millán Escrivá, Robert Laganiere

Overview of this book

OpenCV is an image and video processing library used for all types of image and video analysis. Throughout the book, you'll work with recipes to implement a variety of tasks. With 70 self-contained tutorials, this book examines common pain points and best practices for computer vision (CV) developers. Each recipe addresses a specific problem and offers a proven, best-practice solution with insights into how it works, so that you can copy the code and configuration files and modify them to suit your needs. This book begins by guiding you through setting up OpenCV, and explaining how to manipulate pixels. You'll understand how you can process images with classes and count pixels with histograms. You'll also learn detecting, describing, and matching interest points. As you advance through the chapters, you'll get to grips with estimating projective relations in images, reconstructing 3D scenes, processing video sequences, and tracking visual motion. In the final chapters, you'll cover deep learning concepts such as face and object detection. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to confidently implement a range of computer vision algorithms to meet the technical requirements of your complex CV projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Tracing feature points in a video

We learned in previous chapters that analyzing an image through some of its most distinctive points can lead to effective and efficient computer vision algorithms. This is also true for image sequences, in which the motion of some interest points can be used to understand how the different elements of a captured scene move. In this recipe, you will learn how to perform a temporal analysis of a sequence by tracking feature points as they move from frame to frame.

How to do it...

We will now start with the tracing of feature points in a video, frame by frame. Let's take a look at the following steps:

  1. To start the tracking process, the first thing to do is to detect the feature points...