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OpenCV 4 for Secret Agents - Second Edition

By : Joseph Howse
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OpenCV 4 for Secret Agents - Second Edition

By: Joseph Howse

Overview of this book

OpenCV 4 is a collection of image processing functions and computer vision algorithms. It is open source, supports many programming languages and platforms, and is fast enough for many real-time applications. With this handy library, you’ll be able to build a variety of impressive gadgets. OpenCV 4 for Secret Agents features a broad selection of projects based on computer vision, machine learning, and several application frameworks. To enable you to build apps for diverse desktop systems and Raspberry Pi, the book supports multiple Python versions, from 2.7 to 3.7. For Android app development, the book also supports Java in Android Studio, and C# in the Unity game engine. Taking inspiration from the world of James Bond, this book will add a touch of adventure and computer vision to your daily routine. You’ll be able to protect your home and car with intelligent camera systems that analyze obstacles, people, and even cats. In addition to this, you’ll also learn how to train a search engine to praise or criticize the images that it finds, and build a mobile app that speaks to you and responds to your body language. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the knowledge you need to advance your skills as an app developer and a computer vision specialist.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: The Briefing
4
Section 2: The Chase
9
Section 3: The Big Reveal
12
Making WxUtils.py Compatible with Raspberry Pi
13
Learning More about Feature Detection in OpenCV
14
Running with Snakes (or, First Steps with Python)

Planning the Lazy Eyes app

Of all our apps, Lazy Eyes has the simplest user interface. It just shows a live video feed with a special effect that highlights motion. The parameters of the effect are quite complex and, moreover, modifying them at runtime would have a big effect on performance. Thus, we do not provide a user interface to reconfigure the effect, but we do provide many parameters in code to allow a programmer to create many variants of the effect and the app. Below the video panel, the app displays the current frame rate, measured in frames per second (FPS). The following screenshot illustrates one configuration of the app. This screenshot shows me eating cake. Because my hands and face are moving, we see an effect that looks like light and dark waves rippling near moving edges (the effect is more graceful in a live video than in a screenshot):

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