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    Computer Vision Resources

    Satya Mallick, Ph.D.


    LearnOpenCV.com

    COMPUTER VISION RESOURCES COPYRIGHT 2015 SATYA MALLICK


    Author's Note

    Congratulations! By downloading this resource guide you have embarked on a journey of


    learning. This guide is not a laundry list of all available computer vision resources. On the
    contrary, it is a curated list of things I find useful in my work. It is often wise to leave out
    ingredients from a recipe to improve it, and so I have decided to leave out resources that
    may overwhelm a beginner. However, if you do have a resource that you find useful, please
    email me at [email protected]

    Who is this guide for ?

    This guide is for programmers, hackers, engineers, scientists, students and self-starters. It is
    for those creative people who have an itch to learn something new, and build something
    useful and beautiful. It is for people who take pride in their work, and are craftsmen at heart.
    It is for men and women who believe in sharpening their tools and improving their craft on a
    regular basis. It is for those who believe that learning is a continuous process, and that there
    are smart ways to learn fast. It is for tinkerers who can learn by reading, but prefer to learn
    by doing. Lastly, it is for people who invest in themselves by learning something new every
    day and are eager to contribute back to the community to enrich others!

    COMPUTER VISION RESOURCES COPYRIGHT 2015 SATYA MALLICK


    Books

    1. Computer Vision: Algorithms and


    Applications

    Author : Richard Szeliski


    Summary : This is by far the best book on computer
    vision I have used. This is a good basic reference book for
    a wide variety of computer vision topics image
    formation, image processing, feature detection and
    matching, segmentation, image alignment, structure
    from motion, motion estimation, image stitching,
    computational photography, stereo correspondence, 3D
    reconstruction, image based rendering, and recognition.

    Free version : http://szeliski.org/Book/


    Buy at Amazon (Hardcover)

    2. Digital Image Processing

    Authors : Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods


    Summary : This is a good introductory book in image
    processing. It may be challenging to understand
    Computer Vision literature without a basic
    understanding of image processing concepts. The book
    covers digital image fundamentals, image enhancement (
    spatial and frequency domains), image restoration, color
    image processing, wavelets and multi-resolution
    processing, image compression, morphological
    operations, segmentation, and a bit of object detection.

    Buy at Amazon (Hardcover and Paperback)

    COMPUTER VISION RESOURCES COPYRIGHT 2015 SATYA MALLICK


    3. Learning OpenCV

    Authors : Gary Bradski & Adrian Kaehler


    Summary : Gray Bradski started OpenCV and this
    book is a great introductory book for learning
    OpenCV. The book comes with links to code samples
    and tutorials. The only downside is that this version
    of the book does not cover OpenCV 3. A revised
    version is expected to be released in 2015.

    Note The examples are in the book are in C++ only.

    Buy at Amazon

    4. Practical Python and OpenCV

    Authors: Adrian Rosebrock


    Summary : Great introductory book for learning
    OpenCV using Python. It contains example code, and
    interesting case studies.This digital book comes with a
    30-day money back guarantee, so it is risk free! You also
    receive free updates to the book as it is revised (e.g.
    when OpenCV 3 is released some of the code will be
    revised ).

    Buy at PyImageSearch.com

    COMPUTER VISION RESOURCES COPYRIGHT 2015 SATYA MALLICK


    Software & Libraries
    OpenCV ( http://opencv.org/ )

    Summary
    The biggest and the most extensive open source computer vision library. OpenCV has
    more than 47 thousand people of user community and estimated number of
    downloads exceeding 10 million.
    Languages
    C/C++ with interfaces to Python and Java.
    Platforms
    Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi, and NVIDIA Jetson TK1.
    License ( http://opencv.org/license.html )
    BSD : It is free for both academic and commercial use.
    Note : Not all parts of OpenCV are free.

    VLFeat ( http://www.vlfeat.org/ )

    Summary
    Computer vision algorithms specializing in image understanding and local features
    extraction and matching.
    Languages
    C with interfaces in MATLAB
    Platforms
    Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
    License
    BSD : It is free for academic and commercial use.

    SimpleCV ( http://simplecv.org/ )

    Summary
    SimpleCV is an open source wrapper around computer vision libraries such as
    OpenCV that hides some of its complexities.
    Languages
    Python
    Platforms
    Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Raspberry Pi.

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    License
    BSD : It is free for academic and commercial use.

    MATLAB CV Toolbox ( http://www.mathworks.com/products/computer-vision/ )

    Summary
    A computer vision toolbox for MATLAB.
    Languages
    MATLAB
    Platforms
    Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
    License
    MATLAB's license. Requires Image Processing Toolbox. The total cost of installing
    MATLAB ( $2,150 ) + Image Processing Toolbox ( $1, 000 ) + Computer Vision Toolbox
    ( $1,350 ) = $4500. Student licenses are much cheaper though ( few hundred dollars ).

    Python Libraries

    One of the main advantages of using OpenCV with Python is the vast number of scientific
    libraries available for Python. Here are a few libraries you will find useful. The first three
    libraries NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib are part of the SciPy stack. When used together,
    they pretty much replace MATLAB.

    1. NumPy ( http://www.numpy.org ) : NumPy adds support for large, multi-


    dimensional arrays and matrices to Python. It also consists of a large library of high-
    level mathematical functions to operate on these arrays. OpenCV images are read in as
    NumPy arrays. Several other math, image processing, and machine learning libraries
    are built on top of NumPy.
    2. SciPy ( http://scipy.org/scipylib/index.html ) : SciPy is a powerful scientific library
    built on top of NumPy. Its sub packages include linalg ( linear algebra ), optimize
    ( optimization and root-finding routines ), stats ( statistical distributions and
    functions ), ndimage ( N-dimensional image processing ), interpolate
    ( interpolation and smoothing splines) , fftpack ( Fast Fourier Transform routines),
    cluster (Clustering algorithms) and many more.
    3. matplotlib ( http://matplotlib.org/ ) : An excellent 2D plotting library for Python that
    is every bit as powerful as MATLAB. You can generate plots, histograms, power
    spectra, bar charts, scatterplots, etc, with just a few lines of code.

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    4. scikit-learn ( http://scikit-learn.org/ ) : As a computer vision programmer / engineer,
    you will inevitably need a good machine learning library and scikit-learn serves that
    purpose well. It uses numpy/scipy idioms and provides algorithms for preprocessing
    data, classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, and model
    selection.

    Web APIs

    1. Alchemy API ( http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/alchemyvision ) : A deep


    learning based API for auto tagging images based on the content of the image. If you
    upload an image of a cat, it will return cat as a tag. Deep learning based large scale
    recognition is a hot topic of research these days. If you have been following ImageNet
    Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge ( ILSVRC ), you probably know that even
    though IBM is first to market with its API, several other teams from Google, Facebook,
    Microsoft, Baidu, and several universities are doing much better in the competition.
    Hope they come up with an API too!
    2. CloudSight ( http://cloudsightapi.com/) : What is better than computer vision ? Well,
    human vision! CloudSight API does visual recognition using a combination of
    computer vision and human crowd sourcing. You can use their app called CamFind to
    see how well it works.
    3. Face++ ( http://www.faceplusplus.com/ ) : An API for face detection, facial landmark
    detection, face search, and face recognition.
    4. TinEye ( https://services.tineye.com/TinEyeAPI ) : Search the entire web for an image
    using TinEyes reverse image search.
    5. OCRSDK ( http://ocrsdk.com ) : Upload an image containing text and get back the
    results as text. They provide sample code and it works well for standard scanned text.
    6. CloudCV ( http://cloudcv.org ) : CloudCV describes itself as a Large-Scale Distributed
    Computer Vision as a Cloud Service. It is not a commercial product, but is being
    developed by Machine Learning and Perception Lab at Virginia Tech. They do image
    stitching and object detection / classification in the cloud.

    My Contact Info

    Website http://www.learnopencv.com
    Email [email protected]
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyamallick
    Google+ https://plus.google.com/+SatyaMallick

    COMPUTER VISION RESOURCES COPYRIGHT 2015 SATYA MALLICK

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