Learning Path: OpenCV: Real-Time Computer Vision with OpenCV

This video gives an overview of the entire course.

Before we jump into OpenCV functionalities, we need to understand why those functions were built. Let’s understand how the human visual system works so that we can develop the right algorithms.

Real-life problems require us to use many blocks together to achieve the desired result. So, we need to know what modules and functions to use. Let's understand what OpenCV can do out of the box.

Now that we know what tasks we can do with OpenCV, Let’s see how to get OpenCVupandrunning on various operating systems, viz. Windows, Mac and Linux.

We are going to use CMake to configure and check all the required dependencies of our project. So, let’s learn basic CMake configuration files and creating a library.

CMake has the ability to search our dependencies and external libraries, giving us the facility to build complex projects depending on external components in our projects and by adding some requirements. One of the most important dependency is, of course, OpenCV. Let’s learn how to add it to our projects.

Now that we know managing dependencies, let’s take a look at a bit more complex script. This video we will show us a more complex script that includes subfolders, libraries, and executables, all in only two files and a few lines, as shown in the script.

The most important structure in computer vision is without any doubt the images. The image in computer vision is a representation of the physical world captured with a digital device. Let’s now learn about images and matrices.

After the introduction of matrix, we are ready to start with the basics of the OpenCV code. This video will guide us how to read and write images.

We now know how to read and write images but reading video can be a bit tricky. This video introduces us reading a video and camera with simple example.

We have learned about the Mat and Vec3b classes, but we need to learn about otherclasses as well. In this video, we will learn about the most basic object types required in most of the projects.

In many applications, such as calibration or machine learning, when we are done with the calculations, we need to save the results in order toretrieve them in the next executions. Before we finish this section, we will explore the OpenCV functions to storeand read our data.

OpenCV has its own cross-operating system user interface that allows developers to create their own applications without the need to learn complex libraries for theuser interface. This video will introduce the OpenCV user interface and help us creating a basic UI with OpenCV.

The QT user interface gives more control and options to work with images. Let’s explore the interface and learn how to use it.

Mouse events and slider controls are very useful in Computer Vision and OpenCV. Using these controls, users can interact directly with the interface and change the properties of their input images or variables. However, using these controls can be a bit tricky. Let’s see how to use them.

Now that we have learned how to create normal or QT interfaces and interact with them using a mouse and slider, let’s see how we can create different types of buttons to add more interactivity.

OpenCV includes OpenGL support which is a graphical library that is integrated in graphic cards as a standard. OpenGL allows us to draw from 2D to complex 3D scenes. This video shows us how to use OpenGL support.

Prepare a CMake script file that enables us to compile our project, structure, and executable.

The main graphical user interface can be used in the application to create single buttons.

Histogram is a statistical graphic representation of variable distribution that allows us to understand the density estimation and probability distribution of data.

Image equalization obtains a histogram with a uniform distribution of values.

Lomography is a photographic effect used in different mobile applications, such as Google Camera or Instagram.

The Cartoonize effect creates an image that looks like a cartoon

Isolating different parts or objects in a scene.

Create our new application.

Extract the information from image.

Extract each region of interest of our image where our target objects appear.

Pattern recognition and the learning theory in artificial intelligence and are related to computational statistics.

We will learn how to implement our own application that uses machine learning to classify objectsin a slide tape.

We will be able to recognize different objects to send notifications to a robot or put each one in different boxes.

To extract the features of each object.

It is simply a concatenation of a set of weak classifiers that can be used to create a strong classifier.

You have to avoid huge redundancy during the area computation, to avoid this, we can use integral images.

You have to load the cascade file and use it to detect the faces in an image.

You have to overlay sunglass on face.

You have to track nose, mouth and ears.

The background subtraction technique performs really well where we need to detect moving objects in a static scene.

We cannot keep a static background image that can be used to detectobjects.

Formulating and implementing a mixture of gaussians.

Morphological Image processing is used in processing the shapes of features in the image.

To apply various morphological operators on image.

Understand what characteristics can be used to make our tracking robust and accurate.

We want to randomly pick an object, learn the characteristics of the selected object and track it automatically.

Detect interest points in the image.

Improve the overall quality of image.

Tracking individual feature points across successive frames in the video.

Basics of OCR.

Classification results can be improved greatly if the input text is clear so Adjust the text.

Install Tesseract on Windows or Mac.

Studying tesserct API.