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Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition

By : Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino
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Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition

By: Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino

Overview of this book

Computer vision is a rapidly evolving science, encompassing diverse applications and techniques. This book will not only help those who are getting started with computer vision but also experts in the domain. You’ll be able to put theory into practice by building apps with OpenCV 4 and Python 3. You’ll start by understanding OpenCV 4 and how to set it up with Python 3 on various platforms. Next, you’ll learn how to perform basic operations such as reading, writing, manipulating, and displaying still images, videos, and camera feeds. From taking you through image processing, video analysis, and depth estimation and segmentation, to helping you gain practice by building a GUI app, this book ensures you’ll have opportunities for hands-on activities. Next, you’ll tackle two popular challenges: face detection and face recognition. You’ll also learn about object classification and machine learning concepts, which will enable you to create and use object detectors and classifiers, and even track objects in movies or video camera feed. Later, you’ll develop your skills in 3D tracking and augmented reality. Finally, you’ll cover ANNs and DNNs, learning how to develop apps for recognizing handwritten digits and classifying a person's gender and age. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to execute real-world computer vision projects.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

What's new in OpenCV 4

If you are an OpenCV veteran, you might want to know more about OpenCV 4's changes before you decide to install it. Here are some of the highlights:

  • The C++ implementation of OpenCV has been updated to C++11. OpenCV's Python bindings wrap the C++ implementation, so as Python users, we may gain some performance advantages from this update, even though we are not using C++ directly.
  • The deprecated C implementation of OpenCV and the deprecated Python bindings for the C implementation have been removed.
  • Many new optimizations have been implemented. Existing OpenCV 3 projects can take advantage of many of these optimizations without further changes beyond updating the OpenCV version. For OpenCV C++ projects, an entirely new optimization pipeline named G-API is available; however, OpenCV's Python bindings currently do not support this optimization...