Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++

Reading an image using OpenCV

After playing around a little bit with the RPi camera, let's write a simple C++ program using the OpenCV functions to display an image. In this program, we first read an image from a particular folder and then we display this image in a new window:

To display the image, we first need an image. Inside the pi folder, I have created a new folder called Data and inside it, I have copied one image called Car.png. In the same folder, I have created the DisplayImage.cpp file, inside which we are going to write the program to display the image. The DisplayImage.cpp program can be download from the Chapter06 folder of ...