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Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects Go mobile with the world's most popular microprocessor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788290524
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vasilis Tzivaras Vasilis Tzivaras
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Installing OpenCV 

OpenCV is a library for computer vision. It is well known for face recognition, video tracking, and more image and video processing purposes. At this point, I should say that if you want to use and play with face recognition, this is one of the ultimate libraries that you should use and it is quite hard and difficult to set up. So, in this chapter, we will go through a simple example of how you can run face recognition software on an image. We will not use MotionPie software, so download and install on your SD card your favorite distribution. Assuming that we can power on our Raspberry Pi Zero W board with our loaded distribution, we can start installing the library by referring to the following steps:

  1. First of all, SSH your Raspberry Pi Zero W.
  2. Change your current directory and navigate to your home folder. Then, create a new folder named opencv_src and...
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