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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
Languages
Author (1):
Joseph Howse Joseph Howse
Profile icon Joseph Howse

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

Setting up OpenCV for Unity


Unity provides a cross-platform framework for scripting games in high-level languages such as C#. However, it also supports platform-specific plugins in languages such as C, C++, Objective-C (for Mac and iOS), and Java (for Android). Developers can publish these plugins (and other assets) on the Unity Asset Store. Many published plugins represent a large amount of high-quality work, and buying one might be more economical than writing your own.

OpenCV for Unity, by Enox Software (https://github.com/EnoxSoftware/), is a $75 plugin at the time of writing. It offers a C# API that is closely based on OpenCV's official Java (Android) bindings. However, the plugin wraps OpenCV's C++ libraries and is compatible with Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac. It is reliable, in my experience, and it saves us a lot of work that we would otherwise put into custom C++ code and C# wrappers. Moreover, it comes with several valuable samples.

Note

Although OpenCV for Unity supports Android...

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