A Brief Overview of OpenCV

A Brief Overview of OpenCV

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  A Brief Overviewof OpenCV A Lightning Talk Corey A. Spitzer Omaha Dynamic Language User Group July, 2009
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  The gist image/video IO+ image/video manipulation + webcam API + computer vision and machine learning algorithms = AWESOME!
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  Easy, Breezy, Beautiful* intmain(int argc, char **argv) { CvCapture *webcam = 0; IplImage *frame = 0; int key = 0; webcam = cvCaptureFromCAM(0); if(!webcam) { fprintf(stderr, "Cannot initialize webcam!n" ); return 1; } cvNamedWindow("mywindow", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE); while(key != 'q') { frame = cvQueryFrame(webcam); // get a frame if(!frame) break; // error getting frame so skip it cvShowImage("mywindow", frame); // show the frame key = cvWaitKey(1); // exit when user presses ‘q’ } cvDestroyWindow("mywindow"); cvReleaseCapture(&webcam); return 0; } * as easy, breezy, beautiful as C++ gets
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  Motion Detection
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  Facial Recognition (not perfect)
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  Object Finding
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  Linkage OpenCV Main Site: http://opencv.willowgarage.com Sourceforge Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/
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  Get the book!