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Learning OpenCV 5 Computer Vision with Python, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino
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Book Image

Learning OpenCV 5 Computer Vision with Python, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

5 (2)
By: Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino

Overview of this book

Computer vision is a rapidly evolving science in the field of artificial intelligence, encompassing diverse use cases 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 5 and Python 3. You'll start by setting up OpenCV 5 with Python 3 on various platforms. Next, you'll learn how to perform basic operations such as reading, writing, manipulating, and displaying images, videos, and camera feeds. From taking you through image processing, video analysis, 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. You'll tackle two popular challenges: face detection and face recognition. You'll also learn about object classification and machine learning, which will enable you to create and use object detectors and even track moving objects in real time. Later, you'll develop your skills in augmented reality and real-world 3D navigation. Finally, you'll cover ANNs and DNNs, learning how to develop apps for recognizing handwritten digits and classifying a person's gender and age, and you'll deploy your solutions to the Cloud. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to execute real-world computer vision projects.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Learning OpenCV 5 Computer Vision with Python, Fourth Edition: Tackle tools, techniques, and algorithms for computer vision and machine learning
Appendix A: Bending Color Space with the Curves Filter

Finding documentation, help, and updates

OpenCV's documentation can be found at http://docs.opencv.org/, where you can either read it online or download it for offline reading. If you write code on airplanes or other places without internet access, you will definitely want to keep offline copies of the documentation.

The documentation includes a combined API reference for OpenCV's C++ API and its Python API. When you look up a class or function, be sure to read the section under the heading Python.

OpenCV's Python module is named cv2. The 2 in cv2 has nothing to do with the version number of OpenCV; we really are using OpenCV 5. Historically, OpenCV had a cv Python module that wrapped a now-obsolete C version of the library. The cv module was removed in OpenCV 4.

Still, in the official OpenCV 5 samples and in some other authors’ samples, you might see valid Python code such as the following, which imports the cv2 module and gives it a local alias, cv:

import...