OpenCV 3 Computer Vision
Application Programming
Cookbook
Third Edition
Recipes to help you build computer vision applications that
make the most of the popular C++ library OpenCV 3
Robert Laganiere
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
OpenCV 3 Computer Vision Application
Programming Cookbook
Third Edition
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About the Author
Robert Laganiere is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is also a faculty member of the VIVA
research lab and is the co-author of several scientific publications and patents in content-
based video analysis, visual surveillance, driver-assistance, object detection, and tracking.
Robert authored the OpenCV2 Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook in
2011 and co-authored Object Oriented Software Development published by McGraw Hill in
2001. He co-founded Visual Cortek in 2006, an Ottawa-based video analytics startup that
was later acquired by h t t p ://i w a t c h l i f e . c o m / in 2009. He is also a consultant in
computer vision and has assumed the role of Chief Scientist in a number of startups
companies such as Cognivue Corp, iWatchlife, and Tempo Analytics. Robert has a Bachelor
of Electrical Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal (1987) and MSc and
PhD degrees from INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal (1996). Visit the author’s website at
h t t p ://w w w . l a g a n i e r e . n a m e /.
I wish to thank all my students at the VIVA lab; I learn so much from them.
