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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)

Implementing the demo application

We are going to implement our demo in a single script, ImageTrackingDemo.py, which will contain the following components:

  1. Import statements
  2. A helper function for a custom grayscale conversion
  3. Helper functions to convert keypoints from 2D to 3D space
  4. An application class, ImageTrackingDemo, which will encapsulate a model of the camera and lens, a model of the reference image, a Kalman filter, 6DOF tracking results, and an application loop that will track the image and draw a simple AR visualization
  5. A main function to launch the application

The script will depend on one other file, reference_image.png, which will represent the image that we want to track.

Without further ado, let's dive into the script's implementation.

Importing modules

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