What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started, deals with the basic installation steps and introduces the essential concepts of the OpenCV API. The first examples to read/write images and video and capture them from a camera are also provided.

Chapter 2, Something We Look At – Graphical User Interfaces, covers user interface capabilities for our OpenCV-based applications.

Chapter 3, First Things First – Image Processing, covers the most useful image processing techniques available in OpenCV.

Chapter 4, What's in the Image? Segmentation, tackles the all-important problem of image segmentation in OpenCV.

Chapter 5, Focusing on the Interesting 2D Features, covers the functions available for extracting keypoints and descriptors from an image.

Chapter 6, Where's Wally? Object Detection, describes that object detection is a central problem in computer vision. This chapter explains the functionality available for object detection.

Chapter 7, What Is He Doing? Motion, considers more than just a single static image. This chapter deals with motion and tracking in OpenCV.

Chapter 8, Advanced Topics, focuses on some advanced topics such as machine learning and GPU-based acceleration.