OpenCV for Secret Agents

Use OpenCV in six secret projects to augment your home, car, phone, eyesight, and any photo or drawing

About This Book

• Build OpenCV apps for the desktop, the Raspberry Pi, Android, and the Unity game engine
• Learn real-time techniques that can be used to classify images, detecting and recognizing any person or animal, and studying motion and distance with superhuman precision
• Design hands-free interfaces that are practical in home automation, in cars, and in discrete surveillance

Who This Book Is For

This book is for programmers who want to expand their skills by building fun, smart, and useful systems with OpenCV. The projects are ideal in helping you to think creatively about the uses of computer vision, natural user interfaces, and ubiquitous computers (in your home, car, and hand).

In Detail

OpenCV is a grand collection of image processing functions and computer vision algorithms. It is open source, it supports many programming languages and platforms, and it is fast enough for many real-time applications. What a lot of gadgets we can build with such a handy library!

Taking inspiration from the world of James Bond, this book adds a spark of adventure and computer vision to your daily routine. Protect your home and car with intelligent camera systems that analyze people, cats, and obstacles. Let your search engine praise or criticize the images that it finds. Hear a voice from your phone that responds to your body language. Attune yourself to another person’s rhythm by glancing at a display that magnifies a heartbeat or a breath. Learn OpenCV and see your world as never before.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Preparing for the Mission
Chapter 2: Searching for Luxury Accommodations Worldwide
Chapter 3: Training a Smart Alarm to Recognize the Villain and His Cat
Chapter 4: Controlling a Phone App with Your Suave Gestures
Chapter 5: Equipping Your Car with a Rearview Camera and Hazard Detection
Chapter 6: Seeing a Heartbeat with a Motion Amplifying Camera
Chapter 7: Creating a Physics Simulation Based on a Pen and Paper Sketch