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Computer Vision for the Web

By : Foat Akhmadeev
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Computer Vision for the Web

By: Foat Akhmadeev

Overview of this book

This book will give you an insight into controlling your applications with gestures and head motion and readying them for the web. Packed with real-world tasks, it begins with a walkthrough of the basic concepts of Computer Vision that the JavaScript world offers us, and you’ll implement various powerful algorithms in your own online application. Then, we move on to a comprehensive analysis of JavaScript functions and their applications. Furthermore, the book will show you how to implement filters and image segmentation, and use tracking.js and jsfeat libraries to convert your browser into Photoshop. Subjects such as object and custom detection, feature extraction, and object matching are covered to help you find an object in a photo. You will see how a complex object such as a face can be recognized by a browser as you move toward the end of the book. Finally, you will focus on algorithms to create a human interface. By the end of this book, you will be familiarized with the application of complex Computer Vision algorithms to develop your own applications, without spending much time learning sophisticated theory.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Chapter 1. Math Never Was So Simple!

Computer Vision is all about math. When you need to create your own algorithm or implement something, you address a math topic. You should know how it works on the inside because without digging into the basics, it is hard to do anything. But you are not alone! Many smart people have created several useful libraries to simplify your job. One of those libraries is JSFeat (http://inspirit.github.io/jsfeat/), which has a realization of different math methods. Here, we will discuss fundamental elements of the library such as data structures, especially matrices, and simple math algorithms.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Installation and core structure representation of JSFeat

  • What is inside an image? All about matrices

  • Useful functions and where to use them