Lections on Image analysis, OpenCV

1. Introduction. Problem of image analysis

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USU / IMM Fall 2011
Introduction

At the course will be:

1. Formulation and methods for analysis, processing and
recognition of digital images.
2. The practice of implementing algorithms in OpenCV.

Will not:
1. Fundamentals of Programming C + +.
2. Fundamentals of image processing in Photoshop and Gimp.
3. Neural networks.
Introduction
Under Image Processing Problems we understand the problem of constructing
an algorithm forAutomatic computer image analysis to extract some information
from the image.

In particular, we will not consider the problems of enhancement of images for

human perception.
What is an image processing problem?
Types of Image Processing Problems

Detection

Search for individual objects in the image (regions, contours), the measurement of
size, etc. without specifying what they are objects.

Interpretation
Determining the type of an object in an image.
Detection
Segmentation
- Splitting the image into regions.
Methods: texture analysis, contour analysis.
Motion Analysis
- Analysis of successive frames to determine the direction of
motion of objects in the frame.
Methods: The computation of optical flow.
Depth perception
- Use two cameras to estimate the distance to objects.
Methods: A stereo vision.

Frame from the left cameraFrame from the right camera

The calculated map distances

Tracking objects of interest
- Calculation of the coordinates of an object on a sequence of frames
Methods: Tracking.

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Branch of the object from the
background
- Select areas of pixels that are "objects" rather than "background"
Methods: The study background for further separation, stereo vision, optical
flow.
Interpretation
Recognition of object types
- Texture analysis.

Methods: The calculation of the vector of texture features and subsequent

classification.

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Search for known objects
Methods: A comparison with the standard, the algorithm of Viola-Jones.
Measuring the size of the objects
Methods: A pre-calibrated camera, and then search for objects of interest
and points on for size measurements.

Camera Calibration
Gesture recognition
Methods: A hidden Markov model.

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Orientation in space
Methods: camera calibration, the correction of perspective distortion, a
comparison with the reference on the key attributes.

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Literature
Computer vision
1. Gonzalez R., Woods R. Digital Image Processing.
2. Shapiro, G. Stockman. "Computer vision".

OpenCV
1. OpenCV C++ documentation:
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/cpp/index.html

2. Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler,

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
- Unfortunately, for the version of OpenCV for C, not C + +.

Philosophical Problems of recognition

M.M. Bongard, Problem of Recognition. 1967.
Homework

1. Install Visual Studio C ++ 2008 (2010) Express Edition.

2. Install OpenCV 2.1 (2.2).
3. Run a few examples from a folder
OpenCV..\samples\c\.