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BeagleBone By Example

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785285059
Pages 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

BeagleBone By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with BeagleBone 2. Circuit Fundamentals and GPIO 3. Introduction to Physical Computing Systems 4. Real-time Physical Computing Systems Using BeagleBone 5. Connecting Physical Computing Systems to the Internet 6. Home Automation Using BeagleBone 7. Working with Images Using Computer Vision 8. Home Security Systems Using BeagleBone Black 9. Exploring Robotics 10. Building Your Own Robot Index

OpenCV – introduction and setting up on the BeagleBone board


In this topic you will learn about what OpenCV is and how we can use it to capture images from a web camera that is connected to the BeagleBone board.

OpenCV stands for Open Source Computer Vision. It is mainly designed for real-time computer visualization. So, this library will basically help us to use commonly used programming languages like C, C++ and Python to capture images from the camera connected to our computer – in our case, using the BeagleBone board. When we go to the project section of this chapter to capture an image from the USB camera using Python, you will understand how simple the OpenCV library makes it to code in getting inputs from the camera, generate outputs as image files, and much more in image processing.

Installing OpenCV on Debian on a BeagleBone board

Follow the steps to install OpenCV on Debian on a BeagleBone board:

Step 1: Install compiler:

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential cmake pkg-config

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