Adrian Kaehler & Gary Bradski
Learning
OpenCV 3
COMPUTER VISION IN C++ WITH THE OPENCV LIBRARY
Adrian Kaehler and Gary Bradski
Learning OpenCV 3
Computer Vision in C++ with
the OpenCV Library
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Learning OpenCV 3
by Adrian Kaehler and Gary Bradski
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Table of Contents
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
1.
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What Is OpenCV? 1
Who Uses OpenCV? 2
What Is Computer Vision? 3
The Origin of OpenCV 6
OpenCV Block Diagram 8
Speeding Up OpenCV with IPP 9
Who Owns OpenCV? 10
Downloading and Installing OpenCV 10
Installation 10
Getting the Latest OpenCV via Git 13
More OpenCV Documentation 13
Supplied Documentation 14
Online Documentation and the Wiki 14
OpenCV Contribution Repository 17
Downloading and Building Contributed Modules 17
Portability 18
Summary 19
Exercises 19
2.
Introduction to OpenCV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Include Files 21
Resources 22
First Program—Display a Picture 23
Second Program—Video 25
Moving Around 27
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