Learning OpenCV
Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler
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Learning OpenCV
by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler
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Preface ................................................................ ix
Overview1. ......................................................... 1
What Is OpenCV? 1
Who Uses OpenCV? 1
What Is Computer Vision? 2
The Origin of OpenCV 6
Downloading and Installing OpenCV 8
Getting the Latest OpenCV via CVS 10
More OpenCV Documentation 11
OpenCV Structure and Content 13
Portability 14
Exercises 15
Introduction to OpenCV2. ........................................... 16
Getting Started 16
First Program—Display a Picture 16
Second Program—AVI Video 18
Moving Around 19
A Simple Transformation 22
A Not-So-Simple Transformation 24
Input from a Camera 26
Writing to an AVI File 27
Onward 29
Exercises 29
Contents
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