OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a cross-platform library of programming functions for real time computer vision.

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How to get more accurate results with OpenCV

I would like to ask about this function in OpenCV: cvTermCriteria( CV_TERMCRIT_ITER | CV_TERMCRIT_EPS, 20, .3 ) How do I get more accurate results - do I need ...
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Tracking object that is missing in some frames

I am trying to track small object in videos using LK but the problem is, some time the object does not appear in the frames ! How can I track an object that does not appear in few frames ?? how ...
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Image processing functions for quality control

I have to use image processing for quality control of a cookie manufacturer (as a part of my project). The program must be able to detect oversized, undersized, distorted cookies, cookies having ...
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Detecting a filled glass object

I've been sent here from this question in stackoverflow, please excuse me if the question comes too specific and it's not in the manners in here:) The task is to find a glass with specific liquid in ...
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Subtracting frame from video and write it again as video [closed]

I am capturing and saving frame from video. I want to subtract the current frame from previous frame and write it again as separate video. The program below is how I tried to implement this, but its ...
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False SURF output in video

I am trying to find the three cervical vertebrae (C2 , C3 , C4)in x-ray videos (gray images) I am using SURF to identify the place that has these 3 vertebrae (big box for all of them ) SURF gives me ...
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Image processing: using PCA for 3d object recognition

I read this lecture on using PCA/eigenfaces: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~rcollins/CSE486/lecture32.pdf And I want to use this general procedure to recognize a 3D clay model that I took pictures of from ...
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Image processing, recognizing a small feature in a larger image

I am trying to write an image processing program to recognize bubbles in oil. It has been suggested I try computing the convolution of the image and an image of a typical bubble. i.e. : ...
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Detect lanes from a filtered image

I am working on lane detection system and I would like some suggestions from you as to how to detect lanes from a filtered image which I got after performing certain operations. Firstly, I should ...
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How can i compute perimeter and area of a skeletonized circle?

In opencv if i use findcontours function, i get contours and i can compute area, perimeter, convex hull. if i use a Skeletonized image of a circle how can i compute perimeter,area, convex hull of the ...
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How to relocate face points in opencv / face distortion?

I have to simulate facial expressions on a face image ( say open mouth ). For this I first extracted the facial feature points and found the corners of the lips. Now I need to deform the image by ...
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Texture mapping on a 3D face from 2D face image

I have 3D points (xyz) of a face image and I have 2D face image of the same person. The 3D points of the face are such that If I project the points to 2D plane, it matches with the 2D face image. I ...
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Object-Recognition using SIFT: Switching the order of images creates two different results

I've developed a large test-system which can use every interest-point-detector and -descriptor. I use it for evaluation of the given algorithms with the standford-image-collection of cd-covers. This ...
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How to calculate Noise and distortion of an image?

I need to make an application in iphone which needs to calculate noise, geometric deformation other distortions in an image. How to do this? I have done some image processing stuff with opencv + ...
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Why do object-boundaries look better on a badly rectified image?(openCV stereo correspondence)

I got 2 pictures which is almost parallel, and not positioned very far from each other. I'm using OpenCV to try to create a disparity map (Stereo correspondence). Because I'm trying to use it in a ...
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Separating similiar object in an image

I have posted a question on Stackoverflow and was suggested to post here. Please refer this question for the images: Similar Question: I have used SURF Keypoints and a FLANN Based matcher and ...
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There are other shape properties scale-rotation invariant except HuMoment?

There are other shape properties scale-rotation invariant except HuMoment? There are example that show me how can i implement them? I find this example in c++ ...
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Viewing contours founded by find_contours and rotation-scale invariant regionprops in Scikit-image or OpenCV

I would like to use find_contours and regionprops of scikit-image (also opencv2 module is good) python module to extract feature from a binary image. It's not clear how can i watch contours founded by ...
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OpenCV StereoRectify

If I have already computed the intrinsics(Camera matrix and distortion coefficients) in the lab. I have then moved the cameras out in the real world field. I used about 6-10 known locations in the ...
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Determining Toy Helicopter Orientation From Image

I am working on developing an autonomous control system for toy IR remote-controlled helicopters (like the Syma s107, for example) using a webcam and an Arduino with some IR LEDs. I am using C++ with ...
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Random Forests for Image Classification

Is there any way of using openCV Random Trees (Forests) http://docs.opencv.org/modules/ml/doc/random_trees.html for the task of image classification as described here: ...
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Using GavabDB for 3D face reconstruction from frontal image

Project: 3D face reconstruction Input: 2D frontal face Image Output: 3D face Reconstruction and expression simulation Platform: Matlab or Opencv cpp. I found out after study that 3D Morphable Models ...
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How to recognize a zebra crossing from top view using OpenCV?

How to recognize a zebra crossing from top view using OpenCV? It is not a straight zebra crossing - it has some twists and turns. I have some ideas: parallel line detection, but the available ...
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Safe Point Thinning Algorithm - How to?

I am relatively new to image processing and am working on a project that requires the thinning of binary images. In the literature, I've seen references to the Safe Point Thinning Algorithm(SPTA) ...
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Qualitative Evaluation of Interest-Point-Detectors and Descriptors in Computer Vision

I'm writing on a qualitative evaluation study of interest-point-detectors and descriptors. I've read all Mikolajczyk papers as well as most of the surves from Datta et al. etc. Now I'm implementing an ...
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STASM or AAM which is more efficient

I am working in face detection and recognition project. I am using STASM for face detction and locating face landmarks. On googling I found AAM (Active Appearance Model) and found that it is also used ...
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Find the camera orientation from a homography

If I have a camera which is already calibrated, so that I already know distortion coefficients, and the camera matrix. And that I have a set of points that all are in a plane, and I know the realworld ...
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Scale and Rotation invariant Template Matching

I'm looking for a method for scale and rotation invariant Template matching. I already tried some, but they didn't work so good for my examples or took for ever to execute . SIFT and SURF Feature ...
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Calculating a homography based on detected lines

I know you can calculate homographies from image to camera plane using correspondence points between a "perfect model" and the image points. I'm doing it for a football pitch/field, and have used ...
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How to adjust reverse range for Hue in cvInRangeS?

cvInRangeS method for HSV colorspace is used like: ...
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Get information ouf of drawn rectangle and select label with this information out of hierarchical list

a question regarding OpenCV and getting some content information out of rectangles/ROIs, drawn with the mouse. My goal is, that I want to draw two rectangles (beginRect+endRect), gather some ...
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Recover myself from Dilate and Erode for noise reduction

i have obtained some skin detection map (i post below two example of detection map). but, i'm using a normal webcam and the map is noisy. Not a lot, just a bit. I think i can remove noise only with ...
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Split and Merge image segmentation algorithm in OpenCV

I asked google and I've tried to find something in the API of OpenCV, but hadn't any good hints on split and merge image segmentation method. I want to test it, if it's working better than my ...
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Slicing and Recognition of book title and author from bookshelf image

I am trying, for my own learning purposes, to develop an implementation of an algorithm that would list books, given an image of a bookshelf like the following: The first step is to slice the image ...
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Face Detection + Cropping

Project: Face Detection Description: I want to detect and crop a face in an image. The image is captured through webcam and only one face per image.I used OpenCV face detector, but I was not ...
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Red eye detection

Project: Red eye detection Description: I want to remove red-eye from images. I am not able to use face detector because, the faces in the images are not always frontal and also the images are of ...
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How to categorize the images based on Illumination / shadow?

Input: Cropped face or Non Cropped face images. Detailed explanation: My project is face authentication. I am using OpenCV face detector to crop face from images. I am using OpenCV implementation of ...
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How to determine range of HSV values of the image?

Is there any method to find range of hsv values of image (object) in rectangle inside big image? I mean, there is fixed size rectangle on my image(frame from camera) and i want to find range of hsv ...
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Binary descriptors

I'm using an algorithm to detect interest points in an image and get their descriptor. The most recent algorithms use binary strings instead of float vectors to dramatically increase the performance ...
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People detection from above

I am trying to find some method to detect people using only one camera 3 meters above the ground. This is a frame returned by camera: UPDATE: Video test -> ...
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FaceAuthentication

My project is Face Authentication. System Description: My input is only one image (which was taken when the user logins for the first time) and using that image system should authenticate whenever ...
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Differences between OpenCV Canny and MatLab Canny?

does anyone know why the MatLab Canny (MLC) is so different compared to the OpenCV Canny (OCC)? ML-C delivers precise and more connected edges than the OCC, but how is that possible? The reason why I ...
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Sequentially get the outer contour of an Edge Image

Hi CV/Pattern Recognition Community, because my last thread was concerning the segmentation as BLOB and started to getting too big, with no clear results. I would like to reconcider the last step of ...
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Image segmentation issue of different materials

Hi CV/Pattern Recognition Community, I've got a serious problem regarding the segmentation of an image. The scenario is an atmosphere within a furnace which makes my head go insane. And I need to ...
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virtually rotating the view with intrinsic and extrinsic parameter known [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to get a top view using open cv? I have an image taken from an angle, at a height h from ground. I have all the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters, I need to get ...
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How to get a top view using open cv?

I have a situation where i need to extract the top view of a road from the 'skewed' view I get from a cc camera located on some roadside tree. I would like to do this using OpenCV, but since I'm very ...
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Finding squares in Image

I need to find the squares in an image using OpenCV (no problem in matlab or any other, generally what i expect are some ideas). Consider the test image below : I need to find those coloured ...
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Pedestrian counting algorithm

Currently I am developing a pedestrian counter project (using OpenCV+QT on Linux). My idea about the approach is: Capture Frames Do Background Subtraction clear noises (erode, dilate) find blobs ...
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EmguCV: Detect a ball in the frame

I am having a VERY hard time capturing when the ball comes into frame in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1V6_OHrXIo I have no idea what to set the parameters too, and trying random values ...
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Mathematics of Harris corner point detection

This is the mathematical expression for Harris corner detection: But I have the following doubts: What is the physical significance of $u$ and $v$? Many references say it is the magnitude by ...

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