February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
9h 26m
English
Content preview from Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition
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Installation on Windows
Windows does not come with Python preinstalled. However, an installation wizard is available for Python, and Python provides a package manager called pip, which lets us easily install ready-made builds of NumPy, SciPy, and OpenCV. Alternatively, we can build OpenCV from source in order to enable nonstandard features, such as support for depth cameras via OpenNI 2. OpenCV's build system uses CMake for configuring the system and Visual Studio for compilation.
Before anything else, let's install Python. Go to https://www.python.org/getit/ and download and run the most recent installer for Python 3.8. You probably want an installer for 64-bit Python, though OpenCV can work with 32-bit Python too.
Once Python has been installed, ...