Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition

Project Cameo (face tracking and image manipulation)

OpenCV is often studied through a cookbook approach that covers a lot of algorithms, but nothing about high-level application development. To an extent, this approach is understandable because OpenCV's potential applications are so diverse. OpenCV is used in a wide variety of applications, such as photo/video editors, motion-controlled games, a robot's AI, or psychology experiments where we log participants' eye movements. Across these varied use cases, can we truly study a useful set of abstractions?

The book's authors believe we can, and the sooner we start creating abstractions, the better. We will structure many of our OpenCV examples around a single application, but, at each step, ...