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About a month ago, I spent a morning down at the beach, walking along the sand, letting the crisp, cold water lap against my feet. It was tranquil, relaxing. I then took out my iPhone and snapped a few photos…

I have some big news to announce today… Besides writing a ton of blog posts about computer vision, image processing, and image search engines, I’ve been behind the scenes, working on a second book. And you may be thinking, hey,…

A few months ago, I was teaching an online seminar on the basics of computer vision. And do you know what the most common question I got asked was? How do I use OpenCV to load an image and display…

Take a second to look at the Jurassic Park movie poster above. What are the dominant colors? (i.e. the colors that are represented most in the image) Well, we see that the background is largely black. There is some red…

Here we are, the final step of building a real-life Pokedex in Python and OpenCV. This is where it all comes together. We’ll glue all our pieces together and put together an image search engine based on shape features. We…

We’re getting closer to finishing up our real-life Pokedex! In my previous blog post, I showed you how to find a Game Boy screen in an image using Python and OpenCV. This post will show you how to apply warping…

Quick question. How does a Pokedex work? Well, you simply point it a Pokemon, the Pokedex examines its physical characteristics, and the Pokemon is identified instantly. In this case, our smartphone camera is our “Pokedex”. We point our smartphone at…

So, how is our Pokedex going to “know” what Pokemon is in an image? How are we going to describe each Pokemon? Are we going to characterize the color of the Pokemon? The texture? Or the shape? Well, do you…

What if we could build a real life Pokedex? You know, just like Ash Ketchum — point your Pokedex at a Pokemon (or in this case, snap a photo of a Pokemon), identify it, and get its stats. While this…