OpenCV SURF Robot

I built a small robot to detect an object using image processing techniques and when the object is found, it goes near to it and picks it up.

SURF in OpenCV

Let us  now see what is SURF.

SURF Keypoints of my palm

Create Your Own Haar Classifier for Detecting objects in OpenCV

The steps for training a haar classifier and detecting an object can be divided into :

• Creating the description file of positive samples
• Creating the description file of negative samples
• Packing the positive samples into a vec file
• Training the classifier
• Converting the trained cascade into a xml file
• Using the xml file to detect the object

Let us see all these steps in detail.

OBJECT DETECTION IN OPENCV USING HAARTRAINING

OPENCV is an open source image processing library developed by Intel and currently maintained by WillowGarage. It is very powerful and can be coded in C/C++ or Python. I chose C, as it is more comfortable to me.

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