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    Computer Vision for the Web
    Computer Vision for the Web
    Computer Vision for the Web
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    Computer Vision for the Web

    By Akhmadeev Foat

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    If you have an interest in Computer Vision or wish to apply Computer Vision algorithms, such as face, custom object, and gesture recognition, in an online application, then this book is ideal for you. Prior understanding of the JavaScript language and core mathematical concepts is recommended.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateOct 14, 2015
    ISBN9781785889875
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      Computer Vision for the Web - Akhmadeev Foat

      Table of Contents

      Computer Vision for the Web

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewer

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Math Never Was So Simple!

      Installation and core structure representation of JSFeat

      Initializing the project

      Understanding a digital image

      Loading an image into a matrix

      Basic matrix operations

      Going deeper

      Matrix displaying

      Useful functions and where to use them

      Sorting using JSFeat

      Linear algebra

      A perspective example

      Summary

      2. Turn Your Browser into Photoshop

      Introducing the tracking.js library

      Installation and image loading

      Conversion between JSFeat and tracking.js image formats

      What is filtering and how to use it?

      Image convolution

      The Gaussian filter and separate convolution

      The box blur

      The integral image

      Basic edge detection

      The Sobel filter

      Other operators

      Advanced image processing

      The Canny edge detector

      Histogram equalization

      Summary

      3. Easy Object Detection for Everyone

      Detecting color objects

      Using predefined colors with the tracking.js library

      Using your own colors

      Digging into the tracking.js API

      Using the and

      Building a custom tracker

      Image features

      Detecting key points

      A practical example

      Descriptors and object matching

      The BRIEF and ORB descriptors

      Descriptors implementation and their matching

      Finding an object location

      Summary

      4. Smile and Wave, Your Face Has Been Tracked!

      Face detection with JSFeat

      Face detection using Haar-like features

      Brightness binary features

      Tagging people with tracking.js

      Haar features with tracking.js

      Tagging people in photos

      Head tracking with Camshift

      The idea behind head tracking

      The head tracking application

      Summary

      5. May JS Be with You! Control Your Browser with Motion

      Basic tracking with tracking.js

      An example of an object tracking application

      Controlling objects with the head motion

      The Head-coupled perspective

      Controlling a simple box

      Optical flow for motion estimation

      The Lucas-Kanade optical flow

      Optical flow map with oflow

      Track points with JSFeat

      Zooming with gestures

      Summary

      6. What's Next?

      Refresh your memory

      Importance of client-side scripting

      Other interesting libraries in Computer Vision

      CCV library and its extensions

      Face detection and more

      Object detection with js-objectdetect

      Summary

      Index

      Computer Vision for the Web

      Computer Vision for the Web

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      Credits

      Author

      Foat Akhmadeev

      Reviewer

      Noritsuna Imamura

      Acquisition Editor

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      Content Development Editor

      Amey Varangaonkar

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      Copy Editor

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      Indexer

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      Graphics

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      Production Coordinator

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      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Foat Akhmadeev has 5 years of experience in software development and research. He completed his master's degree in the year 2014 from the Kazan Federal University, Russia. He has worked on different projects, including development of high-loaded websites written in Java and real-time object detection for mobile phones. He has an extensive background in the field of Computer Vision. He has also written a scientific paper on 3D reconstruction from a single image. For more information, you can visit his website at http://foat.me.

      About the Reviewer

      Noritsuna Imamura is a specialist in embedded Linux/Android-based Computer Vision, and is one of the main members of SIProp.org (http://siprop.org/). His main works are as follows:

      ITRI Smart Glass, which is similar to Google Glass. He worked on this using Android 4.3 and OpenCV 2.4 in June 2014 (https://www.itri.org.tw/chi/Content/techTransfer/tech_tran_cont.aspx?&SiteID=1&MmmID=620622510147005345&Keyword=&MSid=4858).

      The Treasure Hunting Robot, a brainwave controlling robot that he developed in February 2012 (http://www.siprop.org/en/2.0/index.php?product%2FTreasureHuntingRobot).

      OpenCV for Android NDK. This has been included since Android 4.0.1 (http://tools.oesf.biz/android-4.0.1_r1.0/search?q=SIProp).

      The Auto Chasing Turtle, a human face recognition robot with Kinect, which he developed in February 2011 (http://www.siprop.org/ja/2.0/index.php?product%2FAutoChasingTurtle).

      Feel Sketch—an AR Authoring Tool and AR Browser as an Android application, which he developed in December 2009 (http://code.google.com/p/feelsketch/).

      He can be contacted via e-mail at <noritsuna@siprop.org>.

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      Preface

      Computer Vision is one of the popular areas in computer science that have gained widespread importance lately. Besides, the power of personal computers has grown, thus opening the gate for developers to use Computer Vision algorithms directly on end user machines using client-side scripting. Nowadays, the most popular programming language for the web is JavaScript. It allows us to develop complex algorithms and run them directly in a web browser; this solves several major problems—the user needs nothing but a browser to run a web application, and as a developer, you get a lower load on your server. In this book, we will provide a comprehensive overview of the most popular JavaScript libraries and discuss the techniques they provide to help you in your initial steps in exciting fields, such as image processing and Computer Vision. This book covers Computer Vision methods by providing an intuitive overview of each algorithm and showing clear examples of the usage of libraries.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Math Never Was So Simple! covers most of the necessary math operations that you need for using Computer Vision libraries and developing your own application.

      Chapter 2, Turning Your Browser into Photoshop, introduces the most popular image processing techniques that are commonly used in the Computer Vision area.

      Chapter 3, Easy Object Detection for Everyone, provides a detailed overview of object detection in photos and videos, starting from the basic examples, such as detecting objects by color, to the more complex examples such as feature detection.

      Chapter 4, Smile and Wave, Your Face Has Been Tracked! covers detection of the face and face particles. In addition to this, it gives you an example of head tracking.

      Chapter 5, May JS Be with You! Control Your Browser with Motion, extends the topic of object detection to object tracking and provides exhaustive examples. It also demonstrates how to create a human interface using gestures or head motion.

      Chapter 6, What's Next? summarizes all that we will do throughout this book. Moreover, it provides references to several libraries that are not presented here.

      What you need for this book

      This book provides an

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