Table of Contents

Understanding OpenCV and Setting Up Environment

Handling Files, Cameras, and GUIs

Processing Images with OpenCV

Depth Estimation and Segmentation

Detecting and Recognizing Faces

Retrieving Images and Searching Using Image Descriptors

Building Custom Object Detectors

Tracking Objects

Camera Models and Augmented Reality

Neural Networks with OpenCV - An Introduction

Appendix 1: Bending Color Space with a Curves Filter

About the Author

Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village with four cats; the cats like fish, but they prefer chicken. Joseph provides computer vision expertise through his company, Nummist Media. His books include OpenCV 4 for Secret Agents, Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3, OpenCV 3 Blueprints, Android Application Programming with OpenCV 3, iOS Application Development with OpenCV 3, and Python Game Programming by Example, published by Packt. Joe Minichino is an R&D labs engineer at Teamwork. He is a passionate programmer who is immensely curious about programming languages and technologies and constantly experimenting with them. Born and raised in Varese, Lombardy, Italy, and coming from a humanistic background in philosophy (at Milan's Università Statale), Joe has lived in Cork, Ireland, since 2004. There, he became a computer science graduate at the Cork Institute of Technology.