OpenCV Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook Second E...

OpenCV Computer

Vision Application

Programming

Cookbook

Second Edition

Over 50 recipes to help you build computer vision

applications in C++ using the OpenCV library

Robert Laganière

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: May 2011

ISBN 978-1-78216-148-6

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Cover image by Mathieu Paquette (mathieu.paquette@live.ca)

Science of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is also a faculty member of the VIVA research

www.iwatchlife.com) in 2009, where he also assumes the

role of Chief Scientist. Since 2011, he is also Chief Scientist at Cognivue Corp, which is a leader

in embedded vision solutions. He has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Ecole

Polytechnique in Montreal (1987) and MSc and PhD degrees from INRS-Telecommunications,

Montreal (1996). You can visit his website at

www.laganiere.name.