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You're reading from Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 Get to grips with tools, techniques, and algorithms for computer vision and machine learning

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789531619

Length 372 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

OpenCV

Concepts

Computer Vision

Authors (2):

Joe Minichino

Joseph Howse

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up OpenCV

2. Handling Files, Cameras, and GUIs FREE CHAPTER

3. Processing Images with OpenCV

4. Depth Estimation and Segmentation

5. Detecting and Recognizing Faces

6. Retrieving Images and Searching Using Image Descriptors

7. Building Custom Object Detectors

8. Tracking Objects

9. Camera Models and Augmented Reality

10. Introduction to Neural Networks with OpenCV

11. Other Book You May Enjoy

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Appendix A: Bending Color Space with the Curves Filter

Technical requirements

This chapter uses Python, OpenCV, and NumPy. Please refer back to Chapter 1, Setting Up OpenCV, for installation instructions.

The completed code and sample videos for this chapter can be found in this book's GitHub repository, https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-OpenCV-4-Computer-Vision-with-Python-Third-Edition, in the chapter09 folder.

This chapter's code contains excerpts from an open source demo project called Visualizing the Invisible, by Joseph Howse (one of this book's authors). To learn more about this project, please visit its repository at https://github.com/JoeHowse/VisualizingTheInvisible/.

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Authors (2)

Joseph Howse

Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.

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Joe Minichino

Joe Minichino is an R&D labs engineer at Teamwork. He is a passionate programmer who is immensely curious about programming languages and technologies and constantly experimenting with them. Born and raised in Varese, Lombardy, Italy, and coming from a humanistic background in philosophy (at Milan's Università Statale), Joe has lived in Cork, Ireland, since 2004. There, he became a computer science graduate at the Cork Institute of Technology.

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