The complete draft version of up-comming O’Reilly Media book “Programming Computer Vision with Python” by Jan Erik Solem. You can download it in pdf format. If you want a basic understanding of computer vision’s underlying theory and algorithms, this hands-on introduction is the ideal place to start.
Book Description
The idea behind this book is to give an easily accessible entry point to hands-on computer vision with enough understanding of the underlying theory and algorithms to be a foundation for students, researchers and enthusiasts. The Python programming language, the language choice of this book, comes with many freely available powerful modules for handling images, mathematical computing and data mining.
Table of Contents
- Basic Image Handling and Processing
- Local Image Descriptors
- Image to Image Mappings
- Camera Models and Augmented Reality
- Multiple View Geometry
- Clustering Images
- Searching Images
- Classifying Image Content
- Image Segmentation
- OpenCV