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OpenCV is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library. It contains over 500 functions for tasks like facial recognition, object detection, stereo vision, and more. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and real-time applications. It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS and supports multicore processors. The library is structured into modules for core functions, image processing, machine learning, video analysis, and more.

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OpenCV is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library. It contains over 500 functions for tasks like facial recognition, object detection, stereo vision, and more. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and real-time applications. It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS and supports multicore processors. The library is structured into modules for core functions, image processing, machine learning, video analysis, and more.

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Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler


Natalia Taborda Restrepo
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin

Noviembre, 2011

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What Is OpenCV?

OpenCV is an open source (see http://opensource.org)computer vision


library available from http://SourceForge.net/projects/opencvlibrary
OpenCV is writdten in optimized C and and can take advantage of multicore
processors and runs under Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. OpenCV was
designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on realtime
applications.

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What Is OpenCV?
One of OpenCVs goals is to provide a simple-to-use computer vision infrastructure that helps people build fairly sophisticated
vision applications quickly. The OpenCV library contains over 500 functions that span many areas in vision, including factory
product inspection, medical imaging, security, user interface, camera calibration, stereo vision, and robotics.

No more reinventing the wheel!

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What Is OpenCV?

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Computer Vision

Figure:

To a computer, the cars side mirror is just a grid of numbers

In this picture we see a side mirror on the drivers side of the car. What the
computer sees is just a grid of numbers. Any given number within that grid has
a rather large noise component and so by itself gives us little information, our
task then becomes to turn this noisy grid of numbers into the perception: side
mirror.
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Figure:

The ill-posed nature of vision:the 2D appearance of objects can change radically with viewpoint

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Speeding Up OpenCV with IPP


If you desire further automatic optimization on Intel architectures [Intel],
you can buy Intels Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) libraries [IPP],
which consist of low-level optimized routines in many different algorithmic
areas. OpenCV automatically uses the appropriate IPP library at runtime if
that library is installed.

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OpenCV Structure and Content


OpenCV is broadly structured into five main components, four of which are shown
in the next Figure.

Figure:

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The basic structure of OpenCV

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CvAux

CvAux is not particularly well documented in the Wiki and is not documented at all in the .../opencv/docs subdirectory. CvAux covers:
Eigen objects, a computationally efficient recognition technique that
is, in essence, a template matching procedure.
1D and 2D hidden Markov models, a statistical recognition technique
solved by dynamic programming.
Embedded HMMs (the observations of a parent HMM are themselves
HMMs).
Gesture recognition from stereo vision support.
Extensions to Delaunay triangulation, sequences, and so forth.
Stereo vision.

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CvAux

Shape matching with region contours.


Texture descriptors.
Eye and mouth tracking.
3D tracking.
Finding skeletons (central lines) of objects in a scene.
Warping intermediate views between two camera views.
Background-foreground segmentation.
Video surveillance (see Wiki FAQ for more documentation).
Camera calibration C++ classes (the C functions and engine are in
CV).

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Portability

Figure:

OpenCV portability guide for release 1.0: operating systems are shown on the left; com- puter architecture types

across top

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