Image Processing

Today’s post is a followup to a previous (extremely popular) article on detecting barcodes in images using Python and OpenCV. In the previous post we explored how to detect and find barcodes in images. But today we are going to…

UPDATE: The introduction to this post may seen a little “out there”. For some context, I had just finished watching the South Park Black Friday episodes prior to writing this post so I definitely had some inspiration regarding zombie shoppers,…

So we know that matplotlib is awesome for generating graphs and figures. But what if we wanted to display a simple RGB image? Can we do that with matplotlib? Of course! This blog post will show you how to display…

Before we dive into this post, let’s take a second and talk about Oscar, a dedicated PyImageSearch reader. He is just getting started in computer vision — and he’s taken the best possible route to mastering the subject: creating your…

Originally I had intended on doing a followup post on my Getting Started with Deep Learning Guide, but due to some unfortunate personal events, I wasn’t able to complete the blog post. But don’t worry…I still have a really great…

Last Updated on July 1, 2021 Would you have guessed that I’m a stamp collector? Just kidding. I’m not. But let’s play a little game of pretend. Let’s pretend that we have a huge dataset of stamp images. And we…

Tragic. Heartbreaking. Unbearable. These are the three words that I would use to describe my past week. About a week ago, a close childhood friend of mine passed away in a tragic car accident. I went to elementary school and…

Building a document scanner with OpenCV can be accomplished in just three simple steps: Step 1: Detect edges. Step 2: Use the edges in the image to find the contour (outline) representing the piece of paper being scanned. Step 3:…

Last updated on July 4, 2021. 4:18am. Alarm blaring. Still dark outside. The bed is warm. And the floor will feel so cold on my bare feet. But I got out of bed. I braved the morning, and I took…