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Learning OpenCV 3 Computer Vision with Python (Update)
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Learning OpenCV 3 Computer Vision with Python (Update)

by Joe Minichino, Joseph Howse
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
5h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3. Processing Images with OpenCV 3

Sooner or later, when working with images, you will find yourself in need of altering images: be it applying artistic filters, extrapolating certain sections, cutting, pasting, or whatever else your mind can conjure. This chapter presents some techniques to alter images, and by the end of it, you should be able to perform tasks, such as detecting skin tone in an image, sharpening an image, mark contours of subjects, and detecting crosswalks using a line segment detector.

Converting between different color spaces

There are literally hundreds of methods in OpenCV that pertain to the conversion of color spaces. In general, three color spaces are prevalent in modern day computer vision: gray, BGR, and Hue, ...

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