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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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Histogram comparison

One interesting functionality offered by OpenCV in connection with histograms is the cv2.compareHist() function, which can be used to get a numerical parameter expressing how well two histograms match each other. In this sense, as histograms reflect the intensity distributions of the pixel values in the image, this function can be used to compare images. As previously commented, the histograms show only statistical information and not the location of pixels. Therefore, a common approach for image comparison is to divide the image into a certain number of regions (commonly with the same size), calculate the histogram for each region, and, finally, concatenate all the histograms to create the feature representation of the image. In this example, for simplicity, we are not going to divide the image into a certain number of regions, so only one region (the full...

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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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