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Alberto Fernández Villán
Alberto Fernández Villán
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Alberto Fernández Villán

Alberto Fernndez Villn is a software engineer with more than 12 years of experience in developing innovative solutions. In the last couple of years, he has been working in various projects related to monitoring systems for industrial plants, applying both Internet of Things (IoT) and big data technologies. He has a Ph.D. in computer vision (2017), a deep learning certification (2018), and several publications in connection with computer vision and machine learning in journals such as Machine Vision and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Latin America Transactions, and more. As of 2013, he is a registered and active user (albertofernandez) on the Q&A OpenCV forum.
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Installing Python, OpenCV, and other packages with virtualenv

virtualenv (https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/) is a very popular tool that creates isolated Python environments for Python libraries. virtualenv allows multiple Python projects that have different (and sometimes conflicting) requirements. In a technical way, virtualenv works by installing some files under a directory (for example, env/).

Additionally, virtualenv modifies the PATH environment variable to prefix it with a custom bin directory (for example, env/bin/). Additionally, an exact copy of the Python or Python3 binary is placed in this directory. Once this virtual environment is activated, you can install packages in the virtual environment using pip. virtualenv is also recommended by the PyPA (https://packaging.python.org/guides/tool-recommendations/). Therefore, we will see how to install OpenCV or any other...

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Alberto Fernández Villán

Alberto Fernndez Villn is a software engineer with more than 12 years of experience in developing innovative solutions. In the last couple of years, he has been working in various projects related to monitoring systems for industrial plants, applying both Internet of Things (IoT) and big data technologies. He has a Ph.D. in computer vision (2017), a deep learning certification (2018), and several publications in connection with computer vision and machine learning in journals such as Machine Vision and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Latin America Transactions, and more. As of 2013, he is a registered and active user (albertofernandez) on the Q&A OpenCV forum.
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