Book Image

Learn OpenCV 4 By Building Projects - Second Edition

By : David Millán Escrivá, Vinícius G. Mendonça, Prateek Joshi
Book Image

Learn OpenCV 4 By Building Projects - Second Edition

By: David Millán Escrivá, Vinícius G. Mendonça, Prateek Joshi

Overview of this book

OpenCV is one of the best open source libraries available, and can help you focus on constructing complete projects on image processing, motion detection, and image segmentation. Whether you’re completely new to computer vision, or have a basic understanding of its concepts, Learn OpenCV 4 by Building Projects – Second edition will be your guide to understanding OpenCV concepts and algorithms through real-world examples and projects. You’ll begin with the installation of OpenCV and the basics of image processing. Then, you’ll cover user interfaces and get deeper into image processing. As you progress through the book, you'll learn complex computer vision algorithms and explore machine learning and face detection. The book then guides you in creating optical flow video analysis and background subtraction in complex scenes. In the concluding chapters, you'll also learn about text segmentation and recognition and understand the basics of the new and improved deep learning module. By the end of this book, you'll be familiar with the basics of Open CV, such as matrix operations, filters, and histograms, and you'll have mastered commonly used computer vision techniques to build OpenCV projects from scratch.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Learning Object Classification

In Chapter 5, Automated Optical Inspection, Object Segmentation, and Detection, we introduced the basic concepts of object segmentation and detection. This refers to isolating the objects that appear in an image for future processing and analysis. This chapter explains how to classify each of these isolated objects. To allow us to classify each object, we have to train our system to be capable of learning the required parameters so that it decide which specific label will be assigned to the detected object (depending on the different categories taken into account during the training phase).

This chapter introduces the basics concepts of machine learning to classify images with different labels. To do this, we are going to create a basic application based on the segmentation algorithm of Chapter 5, Automated Optical Inspection, Object Segmentation...