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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Tracking pedestrians
Up to this point, we have familiarized ourselves with the concepts of motion detection, object detection, and object tracking. You are probably anxious to put this newfound knowledge to good use in a real-life scenario. Let's do just that by tracking pedestrians in a video from a surveillance camera.
You can find a surveillance video inside the OpenCV repository at samples/data/vtest.avi. A copy of this video is located inside this book's GitHub repository at chapter08/pedestrians.avi.
Let's lay out a plan and then implement the application!