One of the elements of good design is the principle of least astonishment ( a.k.a principle of least surprise). A good intuitive design makes the user not think. When you see a handle on a door, ...
applyColorMap for pseudocoloring in OpenCV ( C++ / Python )
In this tutorial we will first show a simple way to pseudocolor / false color a grayscale image using OpenCV's predefined colormaps. We will also show a way to define a custom colormap if ...
Image Alignment (ECC) in OpenCV ( C++ / Python )
The image on the left is part of a historic collection of photographs called the Prokudin-Gorskii collection. The image was taken by a Russian photographer in the early 1900s using one of the early ...
How to find OpenCV version in Python and C++ ?
OpenCV 3.0 was released recently, and you might be thinking of upgrading your code base. OpenCV 2 code will most likely not compile with OpenCV 3 because the new version is not backwardly compatible. ...
Baidu banned from ILSVRC 2015
I met Dr. Ren Wu a day after his team at Baidu announced a spectacular result on ImageNet's LSVRC 2015 challenge beating Google and Microsoft by a rather large margin. I was attending the Embedded ...
How Computer Vision Solved the Greatest Soccer Mystery of All Time
30th of July 1966. Wembley Stadium, London. World Cup Soccer finals. England 2, Germany 1. For the English team victory was tantalizingly within reach. Victory was just seconds away. Victory looked ...