We often confuse our tools for our craft. Tools help you practice your craft, but they do not make you a good craftsman. A good craftsman has many different tools in her pocket, and she judiciously ...
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? -- Pablo Picasso If Picasso was alive today, he would have definitely added one more profession to that list -- a ...
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Computer Vision for Predicting Facial Attractiveness
Most of us have looked in the mirror and wondered how good we look. But, it is often difficult to be objective while judging our own attractiveness, and we are often too embarrassed to ask for ...
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 ...
