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Qt 5 and OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Projects

By : Zhuo Qingliang
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Book Image

Qt 5 and OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Projects

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By: Zhuo Qingliang

Overview of this book

OpenCV and Qt have proven to be a winning combination for developing cross-platform computer vision applications. By leveraging their power, you can create robust applications with both an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and high-performance capabilities. This book will help you learn through a variety of real-world projects on image processing, face and text recognition, object detection, and high-performance computing. You’ll be able to progressively build on your skills by working on projects of increasing complexity. You’ll begin by creating an image viewer application, building a user interface from scratch by adding menus, performing actions based on key-presses, and applying other functions. As you progress, the book will guide you through using OpenCV image processing and modification functions to edit an image with filters and transformation features. In addition to this, you’ll explore the complex motion analysis and facial landmark detection algorithms, which you can use to build security and face detection applications. Finally, you’ll learn to use pretrained deep learning models in OpenCV and GPUs to filter images quickly. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively develop full-fledged computer vision applications with OpenCV and Qt.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Editing Images Like a Pro

In Chapter 1, Building an Image Viewer, we built a simple application for image viewing with Qt from scratch. With that application, we can view an image from the local disk, zoom the view in or out, and navigate in the opening directory. In this chapter, we will continue with that application and add some features to allow users to edit the opening image. To achieve this goal, we will get the OpenCV library we mentioned at the beginning of this book involved. To make the application extensible, we will develop most of these editing features as plugins using the plugin mechanism of Qt.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Converting images between Qt and OpenCV
  • Extending an application through Qt's plugin mechanism
  • Modifying images using image processing algorithms provided by OpenCV
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