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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)

Face detection using deep learning

In this recipe, we are going to learn how to use a trained deep learning model for a face detection algorithm in OpenCV. To do this, we are going to download pre-trained face detection models and use OpenCV methods to import the model and also see how to convert an input image or frame into the required deep learning structure.

How to do it...

Using deep learning in OpenCV is very easy, and the only files that we require are the pre-trained models and know the basic configuration of it. We can download tested, pre-trained OpenCV models from https://github.com/opencv/open_model_zoo.

To create the face detector algorithm, follow these steps:

  1. Download and save the model of the face detector...