Preface
1. Overview
What Is OpenCV?
Who Uses OpenCV?
What Is Computer Vision?
The Origin of OpenCV
OpenCV Block Diagram
Speeding Up OpenCV with IPP
Who Owns OpenCV?
Downloading and Installing OpenCV
Installation
Getting the Latest OpenCV via Git
More OpenCV Documentation
Supplied Documentation
Online Documentation and the Wiki
OpenCV Contribution Repository
Downloading and Building Contributed Modules
Portability
Summary
Exercises
2. Introduction to 0penCV
Include Files
Resources
First Program--Display a Picture
Second Program--Video
Moving Around
A Simple Transformation
A Not-So-Simple Transformation
Input from a Camera
Writing to an AVI File
Summary
Exercises
3. Getting to Know OpenCV Data Types
The Basics
OpenCV Data Types
Overview of the Basic Types
Basic Types: Getting Down to Details
Helper Objects
Utility Functions
The Template Structures
Summary
Exercises
4. Images and Large Array Types
Dynamic and Variable Storage
The cv::Mat Class: N-Dimensional Dense Arrays
Creating an Array
Accessing Array Elements Individually
The N-ary Array Iterator: NAryMatIterator
Accessing Array Elements by Block
Matrix Expressions: Algebra and cv::Mat
