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Learn OpenCV 4 By Building Projects - Second Edition

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

Detecting points using the Harris corner detector

Corner detection is a technique used to detect points of interest in an image. These interest points are also called feature points, or simply features, in computer vision terminology. A corner is basically an intersection of two edges. An interest point is basically something that can be uniquely detected in an image. A corner is a particular case of an interest point. These interest points help us characterize an image. These points are used extensively in applications such as object tracking, image classification, and visual search. Since we know that the corners are interesting, let's see how can detect them.

In computer vision, there is a popular corner detection technique called the Harris corner detector. We basically construct a 2 x 2 matrix based on partial derivatives of the grayscale image, and then analyze the...