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OpenCV 3.x with Python By Example

You're reading from OpenCV 3.x with Python By Example Make the most of OpenCV and Python to build applications for object recognition and augmented reality

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788396905

Length 268 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

OpenCV

Concepts

Augmented Reality

Authors (2):

Gabriel Garrido Calvo

Prateek Joshi

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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Preface

1. Applying Geometric Transformations to Images FREE CHAPTER

2. Detecting Edges and Applying Image Filters

3. Cartoonizing an Image

4. Detecting and Tracking Different Body Parts

5. Extracting Features from an Image

6. Seam Carving

7. Detecting Shapes and Segmenting an Image

8. Object Tracking

9. Object Recognition

10. Augmented Reality

11. Machine Learning by an Artificial Neural Network

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Chapter 7. Detecting Shapes and Segmenting an Image

In this chapter, we are going to learn about shape analysis and image segmentation. We will learn how to recognize shapes and estimate the exact boundaries. We will discuss how to segment an image into its constituent parts using various methods. We will learn how to separate the foreground from the background as well.

By the end of this chapter, you will know:

What is contour analysis and shape matching
How to match shapes
What is image segmentation
How to segment an image into its constituent parts
How to separate the foreground from the background
How to use various techniques to segment an image

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Authors (2)

Gabriel Garrido Calvo

Gabriel Garrido Calvo

Gabriel Garrido is a multifaceted and versatile software engineer with more than 7 years of experience in developing web applications for companies such as Telefonica, Trivago, and Base7Booking. He has a degree in computer science from the University of Granada, Spain. He is passionate about coding, focusing on its quality and spending hours working on personal projects based on technologies such as computer vision, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality. Taking part in hackathons is one of his hobbies. He has won a couple of prizes for implementing beta software for a Google Cardboard hackathon and another for a travel assistant at a TNOOZ hackathon.

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Prateek Joshi

Prateek Joshi

Prateek Joshi is the founder of Plutoshift and a published author of 9 books on Artificial Intelligence. He has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Business Journals. He has been an invited speaker at conferences such as TEDx, Global Big Data Conference, Machine Learning Developers Conference, and Silicon Valley Deep Learning. Apart from Artificial Intelligence, some of the topics that excite him are number theory, cryptography, and quantum computing. His greater goal is to make Artificial Intelligence accessible to everyone so that it can impact billions of people around the world.

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