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Mastering OpenCV 4 - Third Edition

By : Roy Shilkrot, David Millán Escrivá
Book Image

Mastering OpenCV 4 - Third Edition

By: Roy Shilkrot, David Millán Escrivá

Overview of this book

Mastering OpenCV, now in its third edition, targets computer vision engineers taking their first steps toward mastering OpenCV. Keeping the mathematical formulations to a solid but bare minimum, the book delivers complete projects from ideation to running code, targeting current hot topics in computer vision such as face recognition, landmark detection and pose estimation, and number recognition with deep convolutional networks. You’ll learn from experienced OpenCV experts how to implement computer vision products and projects both in academia and industry in a comfortable package. You’ll get acquainted with API functionality and gain insights into design choices in a complete computer vision project. You’ll also go beyond the basics of computer vision to implement solutions for complex image processing projects. By the end of the book, you will have created various working prototypes with the help of projects in the book and be well versed with the new features of OpenCV4.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

This chapter introduced two key topics in computer vision: camera calibration and camera/object pose estimation. We saw the theoretical background for achieving these concepts in practice, as well as their implementation in OpenCV using the aruco contrib module. Finally, we built an Android application that runs the ArUco code in native functions to calibrate the camera and then detect the AR marker. We used the jMonkeyEngine 3D rendering engine to create a very simple augmented reality application using ArUco calibration and detection.

In the next chapter, we will see how to use OpenCV in an iOS app environment to build a panorama stitching application. Using OpenCV in a mobile environment is a very popular feature of OpenCV, as the library provides pre-built binaries and releases for both Android and iOS.