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Raspberry Pi Computer Vision Programming. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207219
Pages 306 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ashwin Pajankar Ashwin Pajankar
Profile icon Ashwin Pajankar

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Computer Vision and the Raspberry Pi 2. Chapter 2: Preparing the Raspberry Pi for Computer Vision 3. Chapter 3: Introduction to Python Programming 4. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Computer Vision 5. Chapter 5: Basics of Image Processing 6. Chapter 6: Colorspaces, Transformations, and Thresholding 7. Chapter 7: Let's Make Some Noise 8. Chapter 8: High-Pass Filters and Feature Detection 9. Chapter 9: Image Restoration, Segmentation, and Depth Maps 10. Chapter 10: Histograms, Contours, and Morphological Transformations 11. Chapter 11: Real-Life Applications of Computer Vision 12. Chapter 12: Working with Mahotas and Jupyter 13. Chapter 13: Appendix 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Pi camera module

A webcam uses a USB port for interfacing with a computer. That is why we can use it with any computer that has a USB port. The Pi camera modules (also known as Pi camera boards) are sensors that are specifically manufactured for RPi boards. The Raspberry Pi Foundation and many other third-party manufacturers produce them. Basically, they are PCBs with a specialized image sensor on them (that is why they are known as Pi camera boards).

The Pi camera board does not have a USB port. It connects to Raspberry Pi through a Camera Serial Interface (CSI) interface strip. Because of the dedicated connection that uses CSI, the performance of a Pi camera board is much better than a USB webcam. We can use Python 3 with a Pi camera module connected to the RPi to capture videos and still images programmatically. It is not possible to use the Pi camera board with any computer other than a Raspberry Pi (and a select few single-board computers that support connectivity with...

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