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OpenCV for Secret Agents

You're reading from OpenCV for Secret Agents

Product type Book

Published in Jan 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783287376

Pages 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Computer Vision

Author (1):

Joseph Howse

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

OpenCV for Secret Agents

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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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

Setting up the Eclipse Workspace

Note

For a refresher on installing Eclipse and OpenCV as part of TADP, refer to the section Tegra Android Development Pack in Chapter 1, Preparing for the Mission. The same section also contains instructions for building and running OpenCV's Android demos.

To keep things organized, we should create a new Eclipse Workspace for our Android project. Start Eclipse. Eclipse might automatically open a Workspace Launcher window, where you can select a directory for a new workspace. Alternatively, you can open a Workspace Launcher window, as shown in the following screenshot, by going to File | Switch Workspace | Other…:

Click on the Browse… button and select a root folder for our projects, as shown in the preceding screenshot. We will use Eclipse to create individual project folders under this root folder.

Since our apps will depend on OpenCV, we need to import the OpenCV library project that we obtained with TADP in Chapter 1, Preparing for the Mission. Go to File...

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Authors (1)

Joseph Howse

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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