“Why do I need to learn computer vision?” This question has been asked to me countless times in the last few years. When that happens I always proceed with a counter-question. Do you want an excellent high paying job? If your answer is yes then you must keep up with technological advances. And If you learn OpenCV you bought a ticket for the future.

What is Computer Vision?

Computer vision is an area of artificial intelligence that we use to train the computer to interpret and understand the visual world. It enables machines to see, identify, and process images in the same way as humans do. In the last few years, there has been significant progress in computer vision achievements. Nowadays, the processing of images is faster and more efficient than ever. Cars, robots, and drones today can understand and recognize objects with very high accuracy, almost like humans. And all these technologies today use computer vision in some way or the other.

OpenCV is the most awesome, fascinating, and the most popular computer vision library in the world used for all types of image and video analysis. Therefore, the reason why I decided to write a book on this subject is pretty obvious. If you want to start a career in image processing, deep learning, or machine learning, you simply must master computer vision and OpenCV. This book will be an important and beneficial step to achieve that goal. 

Key Features

Mathematical explanation and theory intuition – Every single line of code needs to be thoroughly understood. There is no point in memorizing and copying the code and not understanding the theory behind it. That is why this book is providing great explanations of algorithms being used in python code.

Amazing illustrations – I believe that any complex mathematical problem can be better understood if it is illustrated properly. That is why this book has many great illustrations that can help you to comprehend these complicated math equations

Python code – efficient and easy to understand

What you will learn

This book will help you to understand a large number of functions available in the OpenCV library and to learn which function to use to solve specific problems. 

The book begins with an introduction to computer vision and continues with a step by step explanation of the OpenCV library in Python. Then I take you further through the chapters which are written in such a way that they can be easily understood by beginners with no programming experience. Then, chapters are gradually becoming more and more complex. But don’t worry. If you read a few opening chapters thoroughly you will be able to understand complex mathematical equations and lines of code that seemed so incomprehensible. Each chapter addresses a specific image processing problem and offers the most accurate and productive solution. Furthermore, every task covered in this book contains an extensive both theoretical and mathematical explanation. 

Who is this book for?

This book is written for anyone interested in computer vision and image processing. If you want to gain a basic understanding of computer vision concepts and python programming languages, this is a perfect book for you. But also if you already learned the fundamentals of OpenCV, you can still upgrade your knowledge. So whether you are a beginner, student, or a programmer this book offers a little bit of knowledge for anybody.