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Arduino Computer Vision Programming

By : Özen Özkaya, Giray Yıllıkçı
Book Image

Arduino Computer Vision Programming

By: Özen Özkaya, Giray Yıllıkçı

Overview of this book

<p>Most technologies are developed with an inspiration of human capabilities. Most of the time, the hardest to implement capability is vision. Development of highly capable computer vision applications in an easy way requires a generic approach. In this approach, Arduino is a perfect tool for interaction with the real world. Moreover, the combination of OpenCV and Arduino boosts the level and quality of practical computer vision applications.</p> <p>Computer vision is the next level of sensing the environment. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to develop Arduino-supported computer vision systems that can interact with real life by seeing it.</p> <p>This book will combine the powers of Arduino and computer vision in a generalized, well-defined, and applicable way. The practices and approaches in the book can be used for any related problems and on any platforms. At the end of the book, you should be able to solve any types of real life vision problems with all its components by using the presented approach. Each component will extend your vision with the best practices on the topic.</p> <p>In each chapter, you will find interesting real life practical application examples about the topics in the chapter. To make it grounded, we will build a vision-enabled robot step by step towards the end of the book. You will observe that, even though the contexts of the problems are very different, the approaches to solve them are the same and very easy!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Arduino Computer Vision Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Processing Vision Data with OpenCV
Index

Fundamentals of OpenCV


In this section, we'll talk about OpenCV components to give you a better understanding of the structure and provide some information about the fundamentals of OpenCV. You will get insight into the modules so you will able to add whatever is needed in your upcoming Arduino/OpenCV chapter projects. So, get ready to learn about the modules! The modules we are talking about include both shared and static libraries. There are many capabilities OpenCV has to offer to give an easy-to-use experience to users. Because of that we are able to truly focus on projects. For the latest stable version, the following modules are available:

  • opencv_core: This neat module defines basic data structures that we will use constantly, including the dense multi-dimensional array Mat and the basic functions used by all other modules.

  • opencv_imgproc: With the help of the image processing module, we can tinker with the raw images like a professional to prepare them for the further steps of computer...