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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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Reading camera frames and video files

In some projects, you have to capture camera frames (for example, capture frames with the webcam of your laptop). In OpenCV, we have cv2.VideoCapture, which is a class for video capturing from different sources, such as image sequences, video files, and cameras. In this section, we are going to see some examples to introduce us to this class for capturing camera frames.

Reading camera frames

This first example, read_camera.py, shows you how to read frames from a camera that's connected to your computer. The required argument is index_camera, which indicates the index of the camera to read. If you have connected a webcam to your computer, it has an index of 0. Additionally, if you...

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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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