Python is a tremendous asset when you’re trying to classify images, track changes in scenes, search for items within images, implement augmented reality, or do the myriad other things that fall under the umbrella of Computer Vision. In this interview, Jan Erik Solem, author of the upcoming book “Programming Computer Vision with Python,” describes the uses for some common operations, and choices programmers have.
Highlights from the full video interview include:
- The value of Python in computer vision [Discussed at the 0:24 mark]
- Searching for images within images [Discussed at the 2:13 mark]
- Clustering or grouping images [Discussed at the 3:22 mark]
- Constructing a 3D scene from images [Discussed at the 6:11 mark]
- Modeling and calibrating a camera [Discussed at the 7:22 mark]
You can view the entire conversation in the following video:
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