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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)

Building Custom Object Detectors

This chapter delves deeper into the concept of object detection, which is one of the most common challenges in computer vision. Having come this far in the book, you are perhaps wondering when you will be able to put computer vision into practice on the streets. Do you dream of building a system to detect cars and people? Well, you are not too far from your goal, actually.

We have already looked at some specific cases of object detection and recognition in previous chapters. We focused on upright, frontal human faces in Chapter 5, Detecting and Recognizing Faces, and on objects with corner-like or blob-like features in Chapter 6, Retrieving Images and Searching Using Image Descriptors. Now, in the current chapter, we will explore algorithms that have a good ability to generalize or extrapolate, in the sense that they can cope with the real-world...