Hands-On Vision and Behavior for Self-Driving Cars

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: OpenCV and Sensors and Signals

Chapter 1: OpenCV Basics and Camera Calibration

Technical requirements4

Introduction to OpenCV and NumPy4

OpenCV and NumPy  4

Image size  5

Grayscale images  5

RGB images  6

Working with image files7

Working with video files9

Working with webcams  10

Manipulating images10

Flipping an image  10

Blurring an image  11

Changing contrast, brightness, and gamma  13

Drawing rectangles and text  15

Pedestrian detection using HOG15

Sliding window  16

Using HOG with OpenCV  16

Introduction to the camera  18

Camera terminology  18

The components of a camera  25

Considerations for choosing a camera  26

Strengths and weaknesses of cameras  27

Camera calibration with OpenCV28

Distortion detection  29 ...