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OpenCV for Secret Agents

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783287376
Pages 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Joseph Howse Joseph Howse
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Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

OpenCV for Secret Agents
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Preparing for the Mission 2. Searching for Luxury Accommodations Worldwide 3. Training a Smart Alarm to Recognize the Villain and His Cat 4. Controlling a Phone App with Your Suave Gestures 5. Equipping Your Car with a Rearview Camera and Hazard Detection 6. Seeing a Heartbeat with a Motion Amplifying Camera 7. Creating a Physics Simulation Based on a Pen and Paper Sketch Index

Implementing the training script for the cat detection model

 

Praline: I've never seen so many aerials in me life. The man told me, their equipment could pinpoint a purr at 400 yards and Eric, being such a happy cat, was a piece of cake.

 
 --—The Fish License sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Episode 23 (1970)

This segment of the project uses tens of thousands of files including images, annotation files, scripts, and intermediate and final output of the training process. Let's organize all of this new material by giving our project a subfolder, cascade_training, which will ultimately have the following contents:

  • cascade_training/CAT_DATASET_01: The first half of the Microsoft Cat Dataset 2008. Download it from http://137.189.35.203/WebUI/CatDatabase/Data/CAT_DATASET_01.zip and unzip it.

  • cascade_training/CAT_DATASET_02: The second half of the Microsoft Cat Dataset 2008. Download it from http://137.189.35.203/WebUI/CatDatabase/Data/CAT_DATASET_02.zip and unzip it.

  • cascade_training/faces...

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Profile icon Joseph Howse
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Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.
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