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The Computer Vision Workshop

By : Hafsa Asad, Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali, Nikhil Singh
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The Computer Vision Workshop

By: Hafsa Asad, Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali, Nikhil Singh

Overview of this book

Computer Vision (CV) has become an important aspect of AI technology. From driverless cars to medical diagnostics and monitoring the health of crops to fraud detection in banking, computer vision is used across all domains to automate tasks. The Computer Vision Workshop will help you understand how computers master the art of processing digital images and videos to mimic human activities. Starting with an introduction to the OpenCV library, you'll learn how to write your first script using basic image processing operations. You'll then get to grips with essential image and video processing techniques such as histograms, contours, and face processing. As you progress, you'll become familiar with advanced computer vision and deep learning concepts, such as object detection, tracking, and recognition, and finally shift your focus from 2D to 3D visualization. This CV course will enable you to experiment with camera calibration and explore both passive and active canonical 3D reconstruction methods. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the practical skills necessary for building powerful applications to solve computer vision problems.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we started by understanding the various geometric transforms and their matrix representations. We also saw how we can use OpenCV's functions to carry out these transformations. Then, we performed arithmetic operations on images and saw how addition and multiplication with a constant can be understood as a brightening operation. Next, we discussed binary images and how they can be obtained using binary thresholding. Then, we discussed bitwise operations and how they can be carried out using OpenCV. Finally, we had a look at the concept of masking, where we used NumPy to obtain interesting results.

In the next chapter, we will jump into the world of histograms and discuss how we can use histogram matching and histogram equalization as more advanced image processing steps.