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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)

Representing colors with hue, saturation, and brightness

In this chapter, we played with image colors. We used different color spaces and tried to identify image areas that have a specific color. The RGB color space, for instance, was considered, and although it is an effective representation for the capture and display of colors in electronic imaging systems, this representation is not very intuitive. This is not the way humans think about colors. We talk about colors in terms of their tints, brightness, or colorfulness (that is, whether a color is vivid or pastel). The phenomenal color spaces, based on the concepts of hue, saturation, and brightness, were introduced to help users to specify the colors using properties that are more intuitive to them. In this recipe, we will explore the concepts of hue, saturation, and brightness as a means to describe colors.

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