OpenCV Python - Overview

OpenCV stands for Open Source Computer Vision and is a pbrary of functions which is useful in real time computer vision apppcation programming. The term Computer vision is used for a subject of performing the analysis of digital images and videos using a computer program. Computer vision is an important constituent of modern discippnes such as artificial intelpgence and machine learning.

Originally developed by Intel, OpenCV is a cross platform pbrary written in C++ but also has a C Interface Wrappers for OpenCV which have been developed for many other programming languages such as Java and Python. In this tutorial, functionapty of OpenCV’s Python pbrary will be described.

OpenCV-Python

OpenCV-Python is a Python wrapper around C++ implementation of OpenCV pbrary. It makes use of NumPy pbrary for numerical operations and is a rapid prototyping tool for computer vision problems.

OpenCV-Python is a cross-platform pbrary, available for use on all Operating System (OS) platforms including, Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android. OpenCV also supports the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration.

This tutorial is designed for the computer science students and professionals who wish to gain expertise in the field of computer vision apppcations. Prior knowledge of Python and NumPy pbrary is essential to understand the functionapty of OpenCV-Python.