Adrian Rosebrock

What does a hot summer day, Automatic License Plate Recognition and the Talk Python to Me Podcast have in common? Well. That’s a funny story — and one that landed me with a pretty hefty fine from the police. But…

It’s been a long time coming, but OpenCV 3.0 has finally been released! This update is definitely one of the most extensive overhauls to the library in recent years, and boasts increased stability, performance increases, and OpenCL support. But by…

Wow, last week’s blog post on building a basic motion detection system was awesome. It was a lot of fun to write and the feedback I got from readers like yourself made it well worth the effort to put together.…

Last updated on July 8, 2021. That son of a bitch. I knew he took my last beer. These are words a man should never, ever have to say. But I muttered them to myself in an exasperated sigh of…

Today I am super excited to officially announce the PyImageSearch web API. I’ve been planning on building this API for awhile now, and finally last weeks blog post on building a face detection Web API was just the kick in…

So you’ve just built your first awesome computer vision app. Maybe it can detect faces in images. Or maybe your app can recognize prescription pills in photos. Or maybe your computer vision app can identify the covers of top selling…

I’m going to start this post by clueing you in on a piece of personal history that very few people know about me: as a kid in early high school, I used to spend nearly every single Saturday at the…

I really, really hope that someone finds this resource useful. The amount of time I have wasted over the past few months (passively) trying to get boost and boost-python to install on my OSX machine via Homebrew has been nothing…

Alright, so at this point you have been exposed to contours pretty heavily on the PyImageSearch blog. We used contours to build a kick-ass mobile document scanner. Contours enabled us detect barcodes in images. And we even leveraged the power…