Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition

Implementing the demo application

We are going to implement our demo in a single script, ImageTrackingDemo.py, which will contain the following components:

1. Import statements
2. A helper function for a custom grayscale conversion
3. Helper functions to convert keypoints from 2D to 3D space
4. An application class, ImageTrackingDemo, which will encapsulate a model of the camera and lens, a model of the reference image, a Kalman filter, 6DOF tracking results, and an application loop that will track the image and draw a simple AR visualization
5. A main function to launch the application

The script will depend on one other file, reference_image.png, which will represent the image that we want to track.

Without further ado, let's dive into the script's ...